Oh, The Places You’ll Go Balloon Art

I ran across this gem and had to share just in time for Dr. Seuss’ birthday!

On this page, Mrs. Winter shares some Seuss related crafts and activities she did with her class. She shares the easy projects they made to go along with 3 Dr. Seuss books they read: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Horton Hears a Who, and Oh, the Places You’ll Go. While I have seen quite a few crafts inspired by the fish and Horton, I don’t recall seeing any for Oh, the Places You’ll Go. I think that is why this hot air balloon picture caught my eye.

While Mrs. Winter doesn’t share specific directions for making this craft, it looks pretty easy to figure out simply by looking at the picture. If you want to add a little dimension to the picture, I suggest using cotton balls for the clouds and piece of yarn to tether the balloon to the basket. Don’t forget to leave the top of the basket open so you can slide a picture into it!

Read the entire blog post and see all three crafts projects here: Pre-K with Mrs. Winter – Dr. Seuss.

Looking for Dr Seuss decorations? Check these out.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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