The Cat in the Hat Story Sack

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Craft Suggestions:

Include supplies to make one or more of these crafts.

• Make collages by cutting out pictures of cats out of magazines.
• Make your own Cat-In-The-Hat hat or a cat ear headband.
• Cut a circle out of a black pice of paper about the size of a paper plate. Staring on the outside edge, cut one large spiral piece about 2 inches thick. Tape this 'springy' strip to the back of your pants to ba a cat tail!
• Make this goldfish craft or create a fun fish bowl picture using a paper plate and a few other supplies.
• Make a kite to fly in the house.
• Make cardboard roll puppets of the main characters and put on a puppet show!
• Make some hats
• Here is a great Cat in The Hat Bead Pattern.

Additional Story Sack Items:

Include one or more of these related items in the sack.

• Make a cassette tape of the story being told.
• Print out and include some or all of these Cat in the hat coloring pages.
• Include some related books. Here are a few suggestions:
  
  1. The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
  2. A Year of Cats...in Hats
  3. The Cat in the Hat Big Sticker Book
  4. The Cat in the Hat Songbook
  5. Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary
• Print out this Cat in The Hat maze, dot-to-dot, and Fun-In-The-Box activity sheet to do.
• You can also print out and include these activities (PDF files): 'at' Word Family Picture Cards and 'at' Word Family Riddles.
• You can include a Cat in the Hat hat!
• How about a Cat in the hat Puppet.
• Purchase a game or puzzle related to this story.
• Include plain paper and crayons to write or draw a story about your own adventure with The cat in a Hat or about what you like to do on a rainy day.
• Related videos to watch:
  
  1. Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (starring Mike Myers)
  2. Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (Classic)
  3. Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Comes back

Other Suggestions:

Suggestions for more related activities.

• Make the hats above and act out this story.
• Have a discussion about the rules for being home along and talking to strangers.
• make a list of things you can do on rainy days in the house.
• Explore these Rainy Day Projects.
• Make this fun Cat-in-The-Hat snack.
• Play this hat toss game (PDF file).
• Or instead of duck, duck goose, play cat, cat, hat (PDF file).
• Learn how to do this Goldfish Fingerplay.
• Write as many words as you can think of that have the letters "at".
• See how many things you can balance at once.
• Have a balancing relay race - see who can go the fastest balancing a paper cut on top of a paper cut and you can add other items.
• Find more Dr. Suess projects here.