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CELEBRATE DR. SEUSS BY HAVING

BREAKFAST FOR DINNER

Do you like green eggs and ham?  Do you like them Sam I Am?

I’m not sure about you, but Green Eggs and Ham is one of my all time favorite Dr. Seuss books.  I can quote so many different phrases from this book that as I sat here to write this post I had a hard time choosing which one…  I mean, “I do not like them on a boat, I do not like them with a goat”…  I don’t know if I like them with a goat either!  Well whether you do or don’t does not matter!   If you are looking for an easy and entertaining activity for tonight, look no further!  Why not read the book Green Eggs and Ham and then have your little ones make dinner for the family!  My boys had a lot of fun squeezing the food coloring in the eggs (and yes we used green, although I did debate trying blue to see if yellow and blue really do make green).  They whisked their little hearts out and loved watching the swirly green stripes turn into one big green blob of eggs..  They loved watching daddy cook the eggs up on the stove and serve them up “just right” on their big boy plates… (By the way, this picture shows a family of eggs, not one serving, it just made for a better photo).  And then without ceasing (well that’s not entirely true because my younger son did flinch a little while taking his first bite) they ate their green eggs and ham!  AND GUESS WHAT?

I do so like green eggs and ham, THANK YOU THANK YOU Sam I AM!

March 2nd is Dr. Seuss’s (well Theodor Geisel) 107th birthday!  It is one of my favorite days as a teacher because there are so many fun things to do with kids!  A couple websites that I love are:  http://www.seussville.com/ and http://www.obseussed.com/

Of course I compiled a few things that might be fun to do at home…

1.  Make Green Eggs and Ham for breakfast…  You may want to enlist the help of your little one so that he/she sees that the “green” of the eggs was made by you!  

2.  Make Cat in The Hat Snacks…  Take a nilla waffer or ritz cracker and set it on a plate….  Have your child cover it with white frosting.  Then place a red gummy lifesaver on the frosting and add more frosting…  Repeat this process with 4 lifesaver/frosting layers (picture to come after we make them)…

3.  OOBLECK…. Have you read the book Bartholomew and the Oobleck?  It really is a cute story and when you are done you can make your own oobleck…  To make Oobleck you take 1.5 cups of cornstarch and one cup of water…  Add a few drops of green food coloring and VIOLA you have OOBLECK!  It’s not a solid, not a liquid, just ooooey gooooooey fun!  If you don’t want to make that much of it, just put some cornstarch in a bowl and add water until it’s the consistency you desire (so you can make a ball out of it, but it quickly melts into a liquid after being molded)…

4.  Thing One and Thing Two cupcakes… I found these adorable cupcakes on http://www.goodlifeeats.com/ along with some other fun Dr. Seuss treat ideas!  I am going to make these for my family tonight!