Seuss Week

National Reading Week was this week, and we celebrated by having Seuss Week! Every day, we read a different Dr. Seuss book and had a fun project to go along with it.

Monday, we read Bartholomew and the Oobleck and of course we made oobleck! Well, Dad and Sunny did, anyway. Sunny insisted that they put in green food coloring because oobleck is green.

Tuesday, we read Horton Hears a Who and made pink clovers for the speck of dust to reside on. Pink yarn pom-poms and green pipe cleaners. (Or "chenille stems" as they're called at craft stores now. "Pipe cleaners" is so unattractive.)

Wednesday, we created our own illustrations for My Many Colored Days, a lesser known book that Dr. Seuss wrote in 1973 but was published after his death with the artwork by other people. I retyped the entire book, one line per page, and we each took a few pages to draw pictures for. Then I punched holes in the sides, and put them all in a folder cover for our own "copy" of the book. LOVE.

Thursday was If I Ran the Zoo. We had some friends over for art group and made our own funky animals for the McGrew Zoo. Nobody gave their unique animals names (and they all got out the door before I could get pictures of our zoo contributions). Sunny said her animal is named Laura, whatever "she" happens to be. Please note that she is even wearing a bead necklace.

Friday, we went to the library for an hour and a half and read all kinds of things. We brought home some more Seuss books. For family movie night, we got a DVD with the 1970 version of Horton Hears a Who. It also included old cartoons for Horton Hatches the Egg, Daisy-head Maisy, and The Butter Battle Book. We own Maisy and Butter so we've read them lots of times. We had the Egg from the library, which we read over the weekend. All around, a good reading and crafting week!