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.

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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