Do your children know the book Green Eggs and Ham? You can use these book extension activities to help them practice both reading and gross motor skills!
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!
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 Maya Angelou 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.
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!!
Thanks Lorie! Your desserts are so cool!
Fun ideas! I love the egg word spinners!!
Thanks Trisha!!! I can’t wait to try your omelete!
Love the creative idea of the eggs which we will have plenty of soon!
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.
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.
Thanks Eric! I’ll go check it out!
Love the green eggs idea, a great way to encourage kids to eat eggs!
Thanks Carolyn!
I love your green egg word chunk spinners! I was happy to feature your post and photo in my Dr. Seuss Inspired Phonics Activities post. 🙂
Thank you so much Deb!!!