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February 17, 2012

Cat in the Hat Ice Cream

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Do you love making book-inspired treats to go along with stories you are reading?

Try our Cat in the Hat mini-ice cream sundaes!

The Cat in the Hat Ice Cream Sundaes for Kids!

Cat in the Hat Snack:

  • kid size ice cream cones (the little baby ones)
  •  strawberry fruit strips
  • vanilla frozen yogurt or ice cream
  • small piece of a red licorice whip or red icing
  • white M&Ms or mini-marshmallows

Cat in the Hat Kids Snack!

Cat in the Hat Ice Cream:

  1. Use a small scoop to create round balls of ice cream.  Place in a muffin tin and put in the freezer for a couple hours until the scoops are nice and firm.
  2. Cut thin strips of the strawberry fruit strips and wrap them around the ice cream cone.
  3. Dot the M&Ms or marshmallows (that have been cut in half) with icing or peanut butter or whatever you have around.
  4. Cut little pieces of licorice whip for the mouth.
  5. Place the scoops on plates and put it all together!

 

A note from Megan:

I love that Dr. Seuss has inspired so many to read and am so thankful that I have had the opportunity to experience it first hand.  I had never really loved his book, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket!, until one of my high school students, who had struggled with reading his whole life, rapped it for the elementary school kids at their school celebration.

This big, cool high schooler spent days practicing and totally rocked his performance!  That day not only fostered a love of reading in the little kids who were attending, it made him and the other kids in my class love and value reading as well.  Needless to say There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! had a very special place in my heart.

But I have to say the more I’ve learned about Dr. Seuss the more complicated my feelings about his books became. His early racist ads are quite shocking if you haven’t seen them yet and as I have read more about him the more I realized the racist overtones of some of his books. I personally have made the decision to no longer write book activities for his books. As Oprah says, when we know better, we can do better and it no longer feels right for me.

We have a large collections of his books and I am not getting rid of them. But I will be teaching my kids more about his past including the racist parts. It’s important to know our history and the impact it’s had on others. And it’s important to me as a blogger to share things with you I would use in my own classroom or family. 

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. Lynda @ Rhody Reader says

    February 18, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    What a cute idea…and so easy, which makes it even cuter! Now, if I can find a Dr. Seuss hat to wear while we eat it, that would be perfect!

    Reply
    • Megan Sheakoski says

      February 18, 2013 at 8:47 pm

      Yes! A Dr. Seuss hat would be perfect!!! You’ll have to check the dollar section at Target, that’s where we got ours!

      Reply
  2. Jackie Higgins says

    February 28, 2013 at 12:49 pm

    That is adorable! Seriously, I don’t know if I could eat that cat. He’s way too cute! Of course, my boys would eat him in about a minute!

    Reply
    • Megan Sheakoski says

      March 1, 2013 at 8:01 pm

      My kids don’t get a lot of sugary treats so they had no problem at all! Ha! But when my son turned 2 he cried and wouldn’t eat his birthday cake because it looked like his friend Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba!

      Reply
  3. Carolyn ElbertCarolyn Elbert says

    February 17, 2014 at 6:38 pm

    yum!

    Reply
  4. Jennifer Moulton says

    February 17, 2014 at 6:42 pm

    That’s adorable!

    Reply
  5. Jaime Fspdt says

    February 17, 2014 at 6:57 pm

    Oh my I love it!

    Reply
  6. Kre Davis says

    February 17, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    Fun! Think I will do this with cupcakes for my story hour craft class. So cute!

    Reply
  7. Toddler ApprovedToddler Approved says

    February 18, 2014 at 12:19 am

    Darling!

    Reply
  8. Kori Frenk says

    February 19, 2014 at 8:43 pm

    Super Cute!

    Reply

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