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Dr. Seuss: Celebrating Sam-I-Am

2/28/2013

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Our main focus was Green Eggs and Ham, but we also did some wacky things in honor of Seuss' Wacky Wednesday book.

We started off the morning with a patterns sheet for Sweet Girl and a coloring sheet for Love Bug to work on while I got their wacky breakfast together.

Sweet Girl cut out the pictures and picked the next picture for each pattern.

Breakfast: I surprised the girls with Cat in the Hat fruit kabobs again. Note to self: Do more food on sticks! Since we were having a late breakfast, I just gave them some yogurt with sprinkles, a few chocolate chips and here comes the wackiness....a cupcake! I knew they would just probably lick the frosting off, so I just put a thin layer on. They were really surprised to see "a cupcake for breakfast!?"

Sweet Girl with her kabob.

Wacky Breakfast!

Elephant Walk: We hadn't been outside, let alone for a walk, in a while since we've been taking turns being sick. Sweet Girl really wanted to take the elephants, Horton and Morton, for a walk. The girls started off in the backyard, but I thought they'd have more fun going for a walk. We only brought one stroller with us and took turns because I didn't want to end up pushing a stroller! The girls had so much fun enjoying the sunshine and seeing the neighborhood. One of our neighbors even asked Love Bug if she was taking her elephant for a walk.

Follow the leader.

Morton was the lucky one to go for a walk. (Sweet Girl)

Love Bug with Morton in the other stroller.

Green Egg and Ham Activities: Sweet Girl did both of these during the day. We also watched Green Eggs and Ham on YouTube.

Counting worksheet

Sweet Girl colored and cut out this cute tic-tac-toe set.

Green Eggs and Ham Pretzel Treat and Eggs: This is a take on one of the recipes on my Green Eggs and Ham post. We made these after our walk. This was my first time using melted chocolate and not chocolate wafers. The wafers seem to set quicker and I like them because the girls can help put them on the pretzels. They can't really help with the melted chocolate. With the extra chocolate, I made some free-hand egg shapes.

All day I had this idea that I was going to serve the treats on little construction paper frying pans. I almost didn't do it because dinner had been a little late and I just wanted to give the girls their treat. I'm glad I took a minute (less actually) to cut out frying pans for the girls. The presentation was too cute! Sweet Girl even cut out more frying pans for the next day's treat.

Easy ingredients.

In process.

Sweet Girl with her egg.

Laying out the pretzels.

All done and ready to set.

Love Bug taking it slow. She did like it.

How fun is this?!

Lunch: I used some of their lunch to make a funny face. The girls enjoyed the delivery of their plates. This wasn't their entire lunch, they had a bowl of pasta and fruit on the side!

Funny face!

Dinner: What everyone had been waiting for! I decided to do green deviled eggs for something different this year. Let me tell you, scrambled eggs were much easier! My husband bought a large ham that was already cooked, so I heated up some ham to go with our eggs. (Veggies were served on the side.) The girls really enjoyed the eggs (they usually do), but my hubby said he wasn't sure he could eat the green eggs (just because of the color, but he ate them though!

Prepping these were a labor of love.

Green eggs+ham+cheese sticks = Funny face

Sweet Girl digging in.

Sweet Girl eager to taste them.

This was some good ham.

Dinner is served.

Love Bug was a hands-on eater that night!

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Seuss Fix #6: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

2/28/2013

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From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.

We really enjoyed reading this book last year as part of our Seuss celebration. It teaches counting, colors, emotions, opposites. Plus, it's just fun to read!

We also have this version (see below) which is fun for the younger crowd. The counting manipulative is fun and teaches counting and colors.

Dr. Seuss Nursery Collection

Take it further:

Graph rainbow fish to see how many of each color you have. This idea was inspired by Oopsey Daisy's site. She has a great print out on her site as part of her "S is for Seuss" packet, but per her copywright I can not put a link here.
Use this sheet to work on adding and subtracting or for a "find the fish" game.
Try matching fish. This site has a cute idea for making your own matching board.
Here's a fun maze to help the fish get through. Check out Early Moments for other fun printable activities related to this book.

Messy, but fun!

Fish Bowl (Corn Syrup Paint)

This corn syrup fish bowl from Teach Preschool is a fun way to create a fish bowl. If you are worried about the beans being a choking hazard, just use little scraps of construction paper instead.

A Seuss keepsake!

Handprint Fish Poster

This cute idea is from the Lazy Stay-at-Home Mommy. Hint: Trace your child's hand on cardboard and then you have a template he/she can use to trace on the different color papers OR if you are cutting it out, it may be easier to just trace your child's hand one time and cut through all four sheets of paper at once. (This will depend on the thickness of your paper.)

Fish Mobile

Supplies needed: Pictures of 4-5 fish from the book (we traced ours), construction paper, scissors, glue stick, yarn, paper plate, hole punch and a pencil

What to do:

Color in the pictures of your fish.
Cut around each picture.
Cut a rectangle for each fish from your construction paper. You want your mobile to be balanced, so make these all the same size.
Glue the fish pictures onto the construction paper.
Use a hole punch to punch holes at the top of each fish card.
Cut yarn in different lengths (some short, some long) and string through each card. Tie the yarn onto the card.
Use a pencil to poke holes for each fish card plus one in the middle (to hang it) in the paper plate. Space them so your mobile will be balanced.
String the yarn through the holes in the paper plate and knot at the top.
String a piece through the middle hole and tie it in a loop for hanging.
Put on display!

New fish, glad fish, blue fish, fish with a star ready to be hung.

Close up of new fish

Displayed proudly in our front window for all to see!

Fish Recipes

Fun idea from Coffee Cups and Crayons! Plus you don't have to buy that expensive fish-shaped bread!

Use goldfish crackers in soup, to top off deviled eggs, on a salad or in a "fish bowl." (photo: wikepedia.org)

A fish bowl for snack is a must! (source: Simple Girl at Home)

How about some real fish? This tilapia parmesan recipe is from Mama's Supper Club.

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Dr. Seuss: Celebrating Horton!

2/28/2013

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Horton at lunch.

Sweet Girl LOVES elephants, so it was no surprise that she wanted to do Horton again this year. The day wasn't as involved as The Cat in the Hat Day, but we still had fun!

Breakfast was normal. Before lunch, we did bath which was out of the norm, but fun. Then, we had a special lunch and treat after dinner. We also went on an "Elephant Hunt" where we had to find the stuffed elephants. We also colored some Horton pictures and Sweet Girl did a maze. The "big event" of the day was getting to watch the Horton movie. We watched it in four different stages. I would stop it at a suspenseful part each time so the girls would be excited to start the movie up again the next time.

Bath: The girls got to take a bath with several elephants!

Bubble bath!

Lunch: Horton's clovers aka dyed cottage cheese and cheese stick, carrots aka ground for clovers and chicken nuggets. I was trying to think how I could make the plate Horton-like and came up with the idea of adding the ears to the side of the plate. The girls just loved them! Sweet Girl didn't care for the cottage cheese (we've tried it before), but Love Bug did and got kind of messy with it!

Yummy!

Love Bug checking out the ears. Notice her bib? :)

Horton Maze: I printed out a maze and gave Sweet Girl a blue plastic elephant to use (instead of a pencil) to help Horton find his way to the Mayor! This way she can do it again and again!

The maze.

Close-up.

Elephant Hunt: I hid ten of Sweet Girl's stuffed elephants for her to find. (Yes, there are more!) She had fun going around finding all of them. Then, she wanted to hide them for me. I found a couple of elephants hidden where I had put them and quickly realized that she hid all ten elephants in the exact same spots I had hid them--same elepphant, same hiding spot! She thought it was so funny! I love her sense of humor. :) We also hid Thing 1 as a bonus find. Love Bug was busy looking at Seuss books during this time.

"Peanut" hiding.

Elephant Hunter.

Elephant Ears: I used one of the recipes posted on my Horton Hears a Who post. We fried them in peanut oil and served them with honey and cinnamon. Ours don't look as flat as the ones in the recipe, but they were delicious! The elephant ears were a BIG hit with the entire family!

Sweet Girl rolling an elephant ear.

Ready to fry.

Draining.

Sweet Girl taking a bite. MMMMM.

Working together to roll out the dough.

In the pot!

Elephant ear served.

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Wacky, I mean, Wordless Wednesday

2/26/2013

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Read Across America event at Target last year....

Sweet Girl reading while she waited for story time.

Horton and Sweet Girl were good listeners!

Love Bug in the Truffula trees. Sweet Girl gave her those socks for Christmas!

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Dr. Seuss: Celebrating "The Cat in the Hat"

2/26/2013

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What a fun, fun day! Our celebration of The Cat in the Hat began at breakfast and didn't end until bedtime! Check out the pictures below.

We talked about how the Cat likes to play/do tricks. So, after bedtime stories, Daddy did some tricks with handkerchiefs that amazed the girls. They were giggling and smiling so big. Sweet Girl even tried some tricks of her own. Even though Love Bug wasn't feeling well, she got in on the action, too. It was a great way to end our special day.

Breakfast: Cat in the Hat's Hat Fruit Kabobs! The girls had so much fun constructing and eating these. So simple, yet they made breakfast very special.

Ready to be put together.

My example.

Sweet Girl (top) and Love Bug (bottom) poking through the fruit.

Trying different techniques.

Completed "hats" for eating!

Lunch: Cat in the Hat pasta (rigatoni = hat and farfalle = bow tie), Fish and friends in a "fish bowl" and cheese on a stick all served on a red/white striped plate that I colored. Sweet Girl loved her lunch! Love Bug wasn't feeling too well, but she really liked the cheese on a stick.

Lunch is served.

Grown-up version. :)

Dinner: Cat in the Hat's hat pancakes and yogurt with Funfetti sprinkles--made me think of the confetti that shoots out of the Thingamajigger before the Cat goes on an adventure in The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! series.

These took quite a bit of food coloring. You could also use red fruit puree to dye the batter.

Colorful dinner.

Craft #1: Fish in His Bowl

The girls really like Fish, so I thought of this cute (and so easy!) craft to do.

Supplies needed: Pattern of Fish in his bowl, scissors, orange crayon, blue paint, cotton ball, clothespin, glue stick and clear contact paper.

What to do:

Print out the pattern at 100% its size and use it to trace the fish and fish bowl separately so you have two pieces to work with.
Cut out fish and bowl.
Color in the fish.
Use the clothespin to hold the cotton ball to make a dabber to dab the blue paint all over the fish bowl. {I came up with this idea when Sweet Girl said she didn't want to paint with a cotton ball because it was messy. This actually worked really well. As the cotton ball gets used just pinch up more with the clothespin to "tighten" it up.} Depending on how wet your paint is, it may have to try some before the next step.
Glue the fish in the fish bowl.
After the project is completely dry, cover the fish bowl with contact paper. Do not cover the entire project, but just the fish bowl part. It will give the appearance of a real fish bowl. It's hard to tell in the pictures, but it looks neat.

Love Bug dabbing on the paint.

Love Bug's Fish. I had to color Fish because she wasn't feeling well.

Sweet Girl, or should I say Cat in the Hat, using her dabber to cover Fish with "water."

Our paint dabber

Sweet Girl wanted her Fish to be covered with water.

Craft #2: Pasta Cat in the Hat

I got this adorable craft idea from MPM School Supplies. I had trouble finding a picture of the Cat and scaling it to size. I ended up using this image and printed it at 200% so it would fit the clothespin. The girls had a blast with this project. I made one for Shaba Girl (my niece, remember?) as a surprise. I could've made a whole bunch of them!

For step by step instructions check out this link.

I prepped the clothespins since I used hot glue.

Sweet Girl holding the clothespin still so Love Bug could paint her bow tie better.

Sweet Girl painting the bow tie.

Aren't these a hoot? The Cat in the Hat is just so cute!

Hide and Seek with Thing 1

My mom found Thing 1 while cleaning and let us have him last time we were over. I was so excited! Love Bug liked carrying him around and playing with his hair. Sweet Girl and I took turns hiding and finding Thing 1 throughout the day. Sweet Girl kept putting him in her doll house in the bathroom. The funny thing is, the potty flushes, so she'd flush it and say he was done. Too cute!

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Seuss Alive #5!: Miles & Miles of Reptiles

2/25/2013

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There are thousands of reptiles.
I'll show some to you.
Your mother will not
mind at all if I do.

I have not read this book yet, but it is part of the Cat in the Hat Knows a lot About That series. (We love the video version in our house!) While it is not officially written by Dr. Seuss, it is written in Seuss-style and of course features The Cat in the Hat!

Take it further:

Talk about what a reptile is and how it is different than a mammal.
Learn ordinal numbers with this worksheet.
First School has a reptile index full of fun activities to do!
I love this idea from Child Fun: Use yarn to measure out actual measurements of different kinds of snakes. Your child will be amazed to see how long snakes can be!

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Turtle Stacking Game

While this craft was inspired by Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss, it goes along well with this book, too. Melissa Blough posted this idea at www.education.com. Challenge your child to create his/her own stack of walnut shell turtles. Who can make the tallest stack before they topple over?

Supplies needed: Walnut shells (at least 4 whole empty shells), blue paint (or whatever color turtles you want), paintbrush, glue, white pom-poms (small and medium), small wiggly eyes or black felt

What to do:

Paint each walnut shell your desired color. Each turtle will be made from half of a walnut shell.
Allow shells to dry completely.
Glue five white pom-poms onto each shell to represent the turtle's legs and head.
Let turtle dry.
Add two wiggly (or felt eyes so there's not a choking hazard) to the head of each turtle. Allow these to dry as well.
Repeat until you have made at least eight turtles.

Playing the game: Have your child try to carefully stack the turtles on top of each other to balance them into one vertical stack. How high can he/she go? If this is too easy, make more turtles and try stacking more! If it’s too difficult, encourage your child to stack the turtles in a pyramid shape. Have your child count each turtle while he/she is stacking to sneak in some math skills!

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Alligator or Crocodile?

Do you know the difference between an alligator and a crocodile? Talk to your child about how these two reptiles are different. Science Kids has a fun fact sheet with pictures that you could use. Defenders of Wildlife has nice fact sheets, too. You can find the crocodile one here and the alligator one here.

After you know the difference between the two, you can decide if you want to make an egg carton alligator or crocodile. Hint: Snout shape will be different.

Egg Carton Alligator (or Crocodile)

Supplies needed: Bottom part of an egg carton, black and white construction paper, dark and light green paint, paintbrush, q-tip, glue

What to do:

Paint the outside of the egg carton green.
Allow paint to dry completely.
Cut a tail and snout shape. Remember, an alligator has a more rounded snout while a crocodile has more of a "V" shape snout.
Glue the tail and snout on by folding the straight end and gluing it to the underside of the alligator.
Use a q-tip to dab different colors of green paint on the alligators tail and snout.
Cut eye shapes out of the white construction a paper and pupils from the black construction paper.
Glue the eyes together and glue onto the alligator's head.
Now you have a new alligator (or crocodile) friend!

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Reptile Recipe: Snake Breadsticks

I got the inspiration for this recipe from Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook. They twist the breadsticks together to make Schlottz's Knots from the book Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? I thought if breadsticks make good tails, they will make good snakes. I have not gotten a chance to make mine yet, but will update post when I do.

Ingredients: package of bread stick dough (8 sticks), 2 tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon coarse sea salt, peppercorns (or raisins) for the eyes, red pepper for the tongue finely grated Parmesan or Gruyere cheese (if desired)

Supplies: non-stick cookie sheet, cooking brush, measuring spoons, knife

What to do:

Preheat oven per package directions.
Slice red pepper for "tongues."
Separate the dough into 8 sticks.
Stretch the dough a little and place it on a non-stick cookie sheet.
Repeat with remaining dough. Depending on how long you make your snakes, you may need a second cookie sheet.
Push in peppercorns for eyes and a slice of red pepper for the tongue.
Brush each snake with water and sprinkle with a little of the sea salt.
Bake until golden brown and firm, about 15-20 minutes. Sprinkle with cheese the last few minutes of baking, letting the cheese become slightly golden. Keep an eye on them because bake time will be dependent on how thin your snakes are.
Gobble up!

How many reptiles did YOU know in the book?

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Seuss Galore, It's #4: Horton Hears a Who

2/24/2013

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I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
An elephant's faithful one hundred percent.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

Who couldn't love Horton the elephant? He has become part of our family--literally. Sweet Girl has a stuffed Horton that says these two quotes and he travels to many of the places we go. Last year was the first time we read this book and at just three years old, she sat and listened to me read the entire thing!

Take it further:

Talk about and read books about real elephants.
Try out this maze and help Horton reach the Who. I encourage little ones to use their finger so they can do it over and over again.
Everyone can be Horton with these ears!
For a more involved set of ears and a fun trunk idea, check out this link.
Surprise your child with a "good deed" award from Horton. We are always talking about doing nice things for others. This is a fun way to recognize that.

Horton's Clover Flower

Supplies needed: green pipe cleaner, medium pink pom-poms (we only had red), cotton ball, glue

What to do:

Glue three pom-poms together/to the pipe cleaner.
Take a tiny piece of cotton and glue it on the clover for the speck where the Whos live.
Give it to Horton to carry.

Horton Handprint Picture

Supplies needed: Gray paint (or white and black to mix), paintbrush, white cardstock or construction paper, markers or crayons

What to do:

1. Paint your child's hand grey. Make sure to completely cover it.

2. Stamp your child's hand onto the paper. Be careful to stamp every finger. Your child's thumb will be Horton's head and his/her fingers will be his feet.
3. Allow paint to dry.

4. Let your child draw Horton's features and a background/scene around him. Sweet Girl drew Horton when he was tied up in the ropes. This part of the story upseted her, but as we all know, it ended well. :)

Since Sweet Girl loves elephants so much, she wanted to make a picture of some "regular" elephants, too.

Horton Recipe: Elephant Ears and Clovers

What else would you make, but elephant ears and clovers!? We are going to try out the elephant ear recipe that use biscuit dough. I like this one because the girls can be more involved. I'm also going to try out the clovers. Cottage cheese has been hit or miss (mostly miss) with the girls, but maybe they'll eat it because it's a "clover!"

This recipe from Pillsbury uses an entire refrigerated pie crust and bakes in the oven.

The Curvy Girl Guide has this recipe for "lazy" elephant ears using biscuit
dough and they are fried.

Cottage cheese, a little food coloring and celery sticks are all you need for this one!

How are YOU going to celebrate Horton this week?

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Long Lasting Love

2/24/2013

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Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not
delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It
always protects, always trusts, always hopes,
always perseveres. Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

Today we celebrated the wedding anniversary of my parents. They have been through so much the past 30+ years, yet through it all remained a strong, Godly couple. I am so thankful for the parents they have been to me and the grandparents they are to my girls. They are an awesome example of what it is like to stand beside one another through thick and thin and truly live up to their wedding vows.

I wanted to do something for them to help make their day special. Life has been crazy for them the past seven months and I wanted them to be able to really celebrate the day. The girls and I got a few gifts together, baked cupcakes and threw a little party for them. My hubby bought the makings of a special dinner for them which included steak wrapped in bacon, shrimp and my parents' favorite drinks. (This was so sweet of him since he wasn't even able to be part of the celebration due to work.)

One of my favorite moments from today was when Dad, who was outside cooking dinner on the grill, texted "I love you" to Mom who was in the kitchen getting the rest of dinner ready. How darn precious is that?! My second favorite was when we did the toast and Mom and Dad an "arm twist toast" with their glasses. They are just too cute for words!

My parents did have a special day and I am so thankful that we were able to bless them this way. It was just a small thank you for who they are and all they do.

Cupcakes for the lovebirds.

Sweet Girl drew Grandmommy and Granddaddy together during the day....

Gift and special "glasses" decorated with ribbon.

Pouring the bubbly.

Shaba Girl created this on her InnoTab.

Cupcakes for the rest of us.

....and dancing at night. They danced so much their arms got all tangled up!

A little furry somebody was ready for the party to start.

Ready to toast!

Beautiful moon to end a beautiful day.

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Join Me for Seuss #3: Green Eggs and Ham

2/24/2013

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I am Sam
Sam I am
That Sam-I-am!
That Sam-I-am!
I do not like that Sam-I-am!

Do you like
green eggs and ham?
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
I do not like
green eggs and ham.

This is another classic that most people think about when you say Dr. Seuss. We didn't do a craft last year with this one. Instead, we watched this short YouTube video and made our own green eggs and ham for dinner. Don't forget to involve your children! Sweet Girl loved mixing up the eggs. See below for other takes on this fun meal.

Take it further: Play tic-tac-toe with green eggs and ham with this print out. Check out some counting, rhyming (cut them out and put them on index cards) and matching ideas here. I also found these cute addition and subtraction sheets. This sheet will have your child matching rhyming words and putting egg puzzles together. (Older children can read and match the words and younger children can match the puzzle piece part.)

Green Eggs and Ham Meal

Ingredients: Eggs, green food coloring, thickly sliced ham or whole ham, oranges (to put on the side) *You could also substitute the food coloring with spinach or pesto.

Supplies needed: bowl, fork, pans (one to cook eggs and one to heat up ham), knife

What to do:

Slice oranges and put on serving plates.
Cut ham into slices and warm in a frying pan.
Crack desired amount of eggs into a bowl and scramble with a fork. Remember, "poke the yolk" to help you get started.
Add plenty of green food coloring to the eggs and combine well.

5. Pour eggs into frying pan and cook until desired consistency.

6. Serve ham and eggs warm and add a few slices of oranges.

Some other ways of doing green eggs and ham.

Green deviled eggs and ham sliders.

A different take on "green eggs" but both of these are fun and original.

Green Eggs and Ham Sweet Treats

I didn't do any of these last year, but they all look like fun recipes to do with children. There are two variations with chocolates, with or without the pretzels. You could also use a square pretzel, white chocolate wafer and green M&Ms (similar to the ones here I made for Christmas). I think I'm going to try a variation of the pretzel stick ones.

Sweet + salty = yummy!

Can't get much easier than this!

These look pretty real, don't they?

Jell-O eggs

What will YOU be serving up?

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Seuss-to-Do #2: The Foot Book

2/22/2013

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Wet foot, dry foot

Low foot, high foot

Front feet, back feet

Red feet, black feet

Left foot, right foot

Feet, feet, feet

How many, many feet you meet.

Here are several ideas to take this book further:

Sweet Girl has already showed interest in using a ruler to measure things. Take out a ruler (it is a foot long!) and measure things around the house. Get an armful of stuffed animals to measure and put them in order from shortest to tallest.
Talk about opposites. Get started with this worksheet.
Print and cut out these foot patterns to make a path for your child to follow to something fun like a story time book, a special snack, a video or pretend you are hunting something.
Use plastic animals to make footprints in playdough or clay. Can your child guess which toy made which footprint?
Go on a footprint hunt outside.

Footprint Tracings

Trace everyone's feet (shoes on or off) and label them "Left Foot" and "Right Foot" and color them. Tip: You can tell your left from your right with this little "trick." Hold out your thumb and pointer finger. The fingers on your left hand make an "L," thus reminding you that's your left hand and the left side of your body!

Look closely, Sweet Girl drew faces on her feet to make "happy feet."

Family Footprint Keepsake

Who doesn't love painting with their hands? Well, how about using your feet? Take turns painting each other's feet (or just one foot would do) to create a collage of your family's footprints that is sure to become a treasured keepsake.

Supplies needed: A different color paint for each person in your family (maybe each person could use his/her favorite color!), white cardstock, paintbrush, lid or paper plate (to put paint on) and something to cover your work area (we used a brown paper bag)

What to do:

Cover your work area. We worked in the kitchen so clean-up would be easy. Read: No paint on the carpet!
Put some paint on a lid or paper plate.
Take turns painting each other's feet. Make sure to cover the foot completely.
Your child will need help to firmly stamp his/her foot. Remember, no wiggling!
Have each person wash his/her feet off in the bathtub. Your child will have fun seeing the paint run off.
Let your foot "prints" dry.
Arrange in a frame for a fun memory of the day and to remember those little feet!

Sweet Girl painting Mama's toes.

Covered with paint....

Sweet Girl making sure to cover Love Bug's entire foot.

Sweet Girl had a lot of fun painting Mama's foot.

....and print!

Sweet Girl painting Daddy's foot.

Sweet Girl was all smiles the ENTIRE time!

Family footprint portrait.

The Foot Book recipes

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While usually reserved for baby showers, why not make some foot shape cookies? Foot cookie cutters are available to purchase at various stores. You can always make a pattern out of cardstock and trace some out in your dough with a knife. For added fun, add a regular size M&M for the big toenail and mini ones for the other toes!

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This is a bit corny, but it IS Fruit by the Foot! I'm not really into these kind of snacks for my family, but I just had to post it!

Make up your favorite sugar cookie dough recipe and cut into shapes (circles, squares, etc). Let your child use his/her plastic animals (wash them before and after!) to make footprints in the dough. After the cookies bake, you'll be left with a "fossil" of the animals' footprints. Can you identify the different footprints now?

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Dr. Seuss: Celebrating "The Cat in the Hat"

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