Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss Story Sack

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Include supplies to make one or more of these crafts.

• Make this clover with a speck of dust.
• Make cardboard roll puppets of the main characters and put on a puppet show!
• Dress up as an elephant by making a trunk and elephant ears.
• Make some musical instruments to see if you can make as much noise as the Whos did.
• Make this eagle beaded safety pin.
• You can make this paper kangaroo craft.
• Try one or more of these monkey crafts.
• Make an elephant craft or two.

Include one or more of these related items.

• Make a cd or tape of the story being told.
• Include plain paper and crayons to write or draw a story about helping others.
• Here are some related educational print-outs you can include:
  
• Learn more about how the ear works with this print out.
• Print out and some or all of these Horton activity pages:
  
  1. Connect the Dots (pdf file)
  2. Maze (pdf file)
  3. Coloring Page (pdf file)
• Include some related books. Here are a few suggestions:
  
  1. Horton Hatches the Egg
  2. Horton Hears a Who Sticker Book
• Related videos to watch:
  
  1. Horton Hears a Who (Jim Carrey)
  2. Horton Hears a Who (classic)

Suggestions for more related activities.

• Visit a zoo to see the elephants and other animals that appear in the book.
• Instead of 'Pin the Tail on the Donkey', create and play 'Pin the Dust Speck on the Clover'.
• Make the clover craft above and have a relay race.
• Check out these Horton finger puppets
• You can also play a Horton Hears a Who board game
• Here is a Horton stuffed animal.
• You can try this online Word Search.

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