Dr. Seuss - I Can Sleep With My Eyes Shut Mask

        

 I Can Sleep With My Eyes Shut is one of the great books that Dr. Seuss created. We all act a little silly with our kids from time to time even when they start getting older, so I tried to read with my eyes closed and my kids thought it was hilarious. I also made this craft for them so they could have a little bit of fun too!

What you'll need:

• White Felt
• Black Ribbon
• Scissors
• Black Paint and Paintbrush
• Glue

Directions:

• Start by cutting out your sleep mask shape. You can use an existing sleep mask as a template, or just fold your felt in half and cut. You’ll need two pieces of felt cut the same size.
• Using a page from the book as your guide, paint on the squinted eyes. It doesn’t have to be perfect, Dr. Seuss illustrations don’t have many straight, perfect, or even lines… which makes it great for doing free-hand!
• Then paint on the eyebrows. Or, well, unibrow, I suppose. A nice big, broken, squiggly line across the top.
• Glue all the way around the edge of the bottom piece of felt, tuck in the ends of the ribbon, and press the top felt down on top. Allow to dry, and you’re all set!

Dr. Seuss - If I Ran A Zoo Craft

                               

This is a simple craft for kids to do and they'll enjoy doing it. My kids made food but there are many different things you can do such as a tent, animals, and clowns.

What you'll need:

• Construction Paper 
• Tissue Paper 
• Scissors
• Glue

Directions:

• So I cut out the shapes for this craft so we would have enough time for finish before our time was up.
• All your have to do is let the kids decorate it and your done its that simple!

Dr. Seuss - Sleep Book Craft

                                           

This  craft will encourages children to read, retell the story, and create. It's also a great way for kids to work on developing their fine motor skills and listening comprehension.

What you'll need:

Dr.Seuss Sleep Book

Paper Plate

Yellow Paint

Paint Brush

Yellow Curling Ribbon

Yellow Construction Paper

White Construction Paper

Glue

Scissors

Black Pom Pom

Black Marker                     

Directions:

• To begin making this book-inspired craft, your kids will paint a paper plate with the yellow paint. You can also buy yellow paper plates to save time.  
• After the paint dries, your children will glue the black pom pom in the middle of the paper plate. If you don't have black pom poms, they can cut a circle out of black construction paper. 
• Next, your students will draw a mouth at the bottom of the paper plate with the marker.  
• Then, your kids will cut the yellow curling ribbon in strips that are about four inches long. Before attaching the ribbon the plate plate, tape the ends together it a bunch so it is easier to glue. After taping the ribbon together, your kids will glue it on the back of the paper plate so the ribbon sticks out of the top for the hair.  
• While the glue dries, your students will cut one circle or oval out of the yellow and two circles or ovals out of the white construction paper. Next, your kids will fold and cut the yellow circle or oval in half. They will then glue them onto the top of the white circles ovals to create Van Vleck's droopy eyelids. 
• After gluing the circles or ovals together, your students will attach them on the center of the paper plate. Finally, they will then draw a semi-circle on the white ovals using a black marker for the pupils.  

Green Eggs And Ham Slime

                                    

This fun Green Eggs and Ham craft is for kids of all ages. This green eggs and ham slime is another idea for one of Dr. Seuss' great books.

What you'll need:

• White School Glue
• Green Food Coloring
• Neon Green Food Coloring
• Water
• Liquid Starch
• Mixing Bowls
• Spoon or Stirring Stick

Directions:

• Start by making your slime. Keep in mind, you want 2 separate bowls of slime. 1 bowl of white slime and one bowl of green slime.Each bowl of slime will require the bottle of glue, 1/2 cup liquid starch and 1/2 cup water.
• For the white slime, just combine all of the ingredients, mix well and set aside.
• For the green slime, make it just like you did above except you want to add 3-4 drops of green food coloring and 2-3 drops neon food coloring to the glue before you add the water and liquid starch.
• You can add more or less food coloring depending on the color you want it to be. Just keep in mind the color will be a bit lighter after you add the liquid starch since it’s white in color.

• Once your slimes are made, add some of the white slime onto a plate or table and make it an egg shape. Then add a smaller amount of the green slime on top as the “yolk”. 

• You will then have some ooey, gooey green eggs that are totally fun to play with!

Dr. Seuss Pancakes

This is partly food and partly craft. If your kids love The Cat In The Hat and pancakes, they will definitely love doing this.

What you'll need:

• All you need to make your own pancakes are a condiment bottle filled with pancake batter, a bunch of sliced strawberries, and some whipped cream.

Directions:

• Once you have sprayed your griddle and it is nice and warm, just use the condiment bottle to freehand a hat shape.

• After your pancakes are cooked and cooled all you do is alternate rows of strawberries and cool whip, until you get these cute Cat in the Hat pancakes!

Thing 1 & Thing 2

                               

Dr. Seuss Cat In The Hat is among one of the favorites for kids. This craft is is featuring Thing 1 and thing  2 from Cat In The Hat.

What you'll need:

• Paper rolls
• White card stock
• Red paint (and a paintbrush)
• Black pencil
• Scissors
• Blue yarn (and a pom-pom maker if you have one)
• Elmer’s school glue

Directions:

• Begin by painting the paper roll with red paint and set aside to dry while you continue with the next steps
• Using either a pom-pom maker, or alternatively 2 pieces of cardboard cut into donuts make two blue pom-poms.  You don’t want them to be thick and full pom-poms though, you want to be able to make them look a little like messy hair
• Using a stencil or cookie cutter, cut out four circles from white card stock; you need two circles per paper roll.On two of the circles using a black pencil, write THING 1 and THING 2.  On the other two circles draw faces.
• Assemble your Thing 1 and Thing 2 paper rolls using Elmer’s glue.  Place a thin layer over glue around the top of the paper roll to attach the pom-pom hair, and then add a little to the back of each white circle and attach those too

And that's all there is to it!!!!

Horton Hears A Who

         

In Dr. Seuss' Horton hears a who, Horton is needed to help save the whos' that lives on the flower. So he takes a long journey to help put the whos' on a mountain so they can still live. So in this craft we're going to make a paper plate craft of Horton carrying the flower.

What you'll need:

• Paper plate
• acrylic paint (blue or gray)
• straw
• construction paper (white and black)
• Pom Pom 
• scissors
• glue

Directions:

• First paint the plate and let it completely dry.
• Then cut out the middle top and bottom, it should look like this after you've cut it

                             

• After that's done take the two cut pieces, glue them together for the trunk, and then cut a whole in the end big enough for the straw
• Cut two small ovals from your white construction paper: then two slightly bigger ones from your black construction paper, glue the white pieces onto the black pieces for the eyes
• Then glue your eyes to the middle of the plate and your trunk to the middle of the bottom, it should look like this when after you've finished that        

                                                                                        
                            

• Now glue your Pom Pom to the top of your straw and insert it into Hortons trunk

And that's it for this craft! I hope you and your kids enjoy this craft like my family did!!!

Dr. Seuss- One Fish, Two Fish

                                

Dr. Seuss was great at writing books that would get kids imagination going. In his book one fish, two fish he was able to bring out the kids imagination with different color fish and numbers. So also in this little craft we're gonna work with colors and numbers.

What you'll need:

• Different color construction paper

• glue

Directions:

• Have the kids cut out their lake, trees, and different color fish first.

• After they have that done let them glue it all together.

• While the craft drys read the book to them 

• Once the craft is completely dry, let them count the fish and name the colors

Note: It would also be a good idea to have the book with you as well.

Note: It would also be a great idea to let them name their fish. Also, it would be fun for them if you let them eat sweetish fish or colorful goldfish for a snack while your reading the book.