Learning Activities for Dr. Seuss Day

Dr. Seuss’ birthday is celebrated on March 2 each year, and my daughter’s school draws it out into a whole week of celebrations, with theme days related to different books (today: stripes for On Beyond Zebra), green eggs in the cafeteria, even a birthday party.

If you want to add some Seussical fun to your classroom or home activities for Seuss week, here are some great ideas.

Activities

Yertle the Turtle stacking activity — There’s Just One Mommy

Dr. Seuss Printable Math Worksheets — iGame Mom

Hop on Pop Reading and Spelling Game — Teach Beside Me

Stacking the Cat’s Hat STEM Challenge — Little Bins for Little Hands

Wocket in My Pocket Printable Activities — Kiddy Charts

Goldfish Printables (for One Fish, Two Fish) — Tot Schooling

What Pet Should I Get Graphing — Playground Parkbench

Cat in the Hat Math Mats — JDaniel4’s Mom

Roundups

Seuss-Inspired Science Activities — Read Science

Seuss Activities for Older Kids — There’s Just One Mommy

Dr. Seuss Activities for Preschoolers — Growing Book by Book

Free Dr. Seuss Printables — Tot Schooling

Activities for 10 Apples Up on Top — Mama Smiles

Crafts

There’s a Wocket in My Pocket — Munchkins and Moms

One Fish, Two Fish Craft — Glued to My Crafts

Flower Pens — Creations by Kara (these remind me of Truffula trees!)

Dr. Seuss Lunchbox Notes Printables — No Time for Flash Cards

Dr. Seuss Book Inspired Crafts — Resourceful Mama

Are You My Mother Baby Bird Craft — Simple at Home

Yarn Truffula Trees — 3 Dinosaurs

With little kids especially, linking learning to physical activity really does help them learn. Movement can help kids focus, and it just keeps them from sitting still all day, which isn’t good for anyone.

The good news is lots of different learning activities can be adopted to get kids moving while they learn, so let’s look at some math and number activities that use gross motor skills.

Probably the most obvious thing would be hopscotch, which helps kids count while they hop. You can also mix up the numbers, do skip counting with the numbers, give kids a simple math problem and have them hop to the correct answer, and on and on.

This number hop game from Gift of Curiosity is a more chaotic version, with number flash cards on the floor that kids can hop, skip or jump to as you call them out (this one is more for individual number identification than counting). It’s a great indoor option if it’s too hot, cold or rainy out to do traditional hopscotch, too.

This painter’s tape number line idea from Days with Grey doesn’t involve quite as much movement, but kids can move around while they place things on the number line and work on learning about one to one correspondence. In the blog post they use shoes, but you can count anything you’ve got handy. (Be warned when I visited this website had an ad that continually took up the whole page, but you can get the idea pretty quickly.)

One of the important tasks of learning numbers is learning a parent’s phone number just in case it’s ever needed, or how to dial 911 in case on an emergency. Teaching Mama has a great way to practice telephone numbers and get some movement in with a giant telephone keypad made out of paper plates. You can also use this for counting practice, but it’s a great idea for learning phone numbers, too.

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