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We are still counting down the days until Dr. Seuss’ birthday with lots of fun Dr. Seuss books and activities! The last couple of days we have been reading and playing with Green Eggs and Ham
My kids love book extension activities that are simple and can be done again and again so the Green Eggs and Ham games I came up with were a big hit! We played a Green Egg Relay game and made some Green Egg Word Chunk Spinners.
My preschoolers worked on developing their motor skills during the Green Egg Relay game. I filled a plastic Easter egg with rice and the kids practiced carrying it across the room on a soup spoon. When they got to the person on the other side they had to transfer it from their spoon to the other spoon.
Then we turned some of the rhyming words in the story into a word chunk game! I wrote some of the word chunks that my 4 year old is practicing on the bottom of the plastic egg and consonants on the top half. He could then spin the egg parts around to form and read new words. These are great for entertaining kids in the car too!
I have really enjoyed looking through all of the Dr. Seuss Virtual Book Club for Kids posts that have been linked up so far and found some really cool Green Eggs and Ham ones.
Check them out:
- Reading Confetti’s 3 Green Eggs and Ham Treats
- OMazing Kids’ Green Eggs and Ham Yoga
- Motherhood on a Dime’s Natural Green Eggs and Ham Recipe
- Inspiration Laboratories Green Eggs and Ham Play Dough and Omelette Recipe
- Mama Miss’ Dr. Seuss Inspired Green Eggs and Ham Treats
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My kids love egg relays but I never thought about connecting it to Green Eggs and Ham! What a great idea! Thanks for the link and the facebook share too!!
Lorie recently posted..5 Butterfly and Caterpillar Projects: Kid’s Co-op
Thanks Lorie! Your desserts are so cool!
Fun ideas! I love the egg word spinners!!
Trisha @ Inspiration Laboratories recently posted..Counting with Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
Thanks Trisha!!! I can’t wait to try your omelete!
Love the creative idea of the eggs which we will have plenty of soon!
Jodie @ Growing Book by Book recently posted..March Table Topics
Thanks Jodie! So did my 4 year old, I’m wondering if we will have any left for the bunny! Ha!
Sounds like fun! The egg spinners idea would be great for a busy bag exchange!
Very true!!!
Love how creative you got. I wanted to find some green plastic eggs, but no luck and we have none of our eggs left from Easter. The boys played and played with them until they became unusable.
Jen Fischer recently posted..{2 for 1} Weekly Kid’s Co-Op + Project 101: Weekly Library Challenge
They are back in the dollar store now!!!
Love the simple word chunking activity! I pinned it! We might have to pull our easter eggs out early this year!
I would love if you share these Green Eggs and Ham ideas on my COUNTDOWN TO DR. SEUSS’s BIrthday linky: http://www.happybirthdayauthor.com/2013/01/countdown-to-dr-seusss-birthday.html
I hope you stop by.
Eric VanRaepenbusch recently posted..Happy Birthday Peter Brown – February 24
Thanks Eric! I’ll go check it out!
Love the green eggs idea, a great way to encourage kids to eat eggs!
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Thanks Carolyn!