Dr. Seuss’ Birthday

Are you looking for some activities to help celebrate Dr. Seuss’ Birthday? I’ve got you covered in this post! There is a free coloring page as well as writing activity and math mat. Hope they can be useful and fun for your kids as well!

We have been celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday every year for almost a decade now and my kids have really grown to look forward to this day as another holiday. We usually eat green eggs and ham and when I say ham, I mean I actually will cook a whole ham. We used to buy Honey Baked Ham until I found this wonderful and easy copycat recipe from the Chunky Chef. We drink pink ink (either strawberry milkshakes, raspberry sherbet punch, or pink lemonade) and I make blue jello in clear cups, placing Swedish fish on top as a nod to Dr. Seuss’ One Fish Two Fish. The kids usually spend a week celebrating at school with fun themed activities and dress up as well. I love marking this occasion as it gets my kids (all bookworms) to be even more excited about reading, early math, and learning.

There are a ton of printable activities available on Seusville.com We love the word skills and puzzles activities. My kids really like playing this Cat in the Hat Tic Toe. They have free printable stickers too that would make great cupcake toppers (just print onto cardstock and attach to toothpicks) or tattoos (print out onto temporary tattoo paper). Always think outside the box! We have also used these printable Lorax mustaches to make fun photo props. Wear a mustache and perhaps plant a tree!

In the past, we have found many additional activities from browsing Pinterest. Some of our favorite activities over the years include:

Free Dr. Seuss Writing Prompts from Blessed Beyond a Doubt

Free Dr. Seuss Coloring Pages from Get Coloring Pages

Thing 1 Hat from The Joys of Boys

The free printable coloring page I made is available to download here.

Your child can use it to decorate a special birthday cake for Dr. Seuss. My kids all enjoyed this activity because they love coloring but also because this simple cake allowed them the opportunity to get creative with their own add-on details. You could also fancy it up with glitter, sequins, gel pens, stickers, or glue on rectangular pieces of construction paper for candles or sprinkles.

My kids love to draw and I have found that one of the best ways to get them to write more is to encourage them to write and draw. They make comic books, fairytales, and we journal. Unfortunately, sometimes especially when it comes to journalling, they spend too much time on their pictures, and run out of time to write so I have found it best to include the blank picture box at the bottom of the page rather than at the top.

This is a printable I made to go along with Dr. Seuss’ first published book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street. My kids love this story of the flight of a young boy’s imagination as he walks home from school. I challenged my kids to write about what amazing things they could imagine seeing on their walk home from school on their own named street. I think my son must have been hungry after school as he wrote about seeing a lot of bakers and their sweet treats.

I also made a Fish in a Tree Math Mat inspired by Dr. Seuss’ book Hop on Pop. I love his drawings of fish and their silly expressions. I have also created a bunch of fish out of poster board and hang them up every year to decorate for Dr. Seuss’ birthday. In past years, we have also made gigantic paper trees, writing my daughter’s sight words on the leaves, and taping three fish in it.

This file is best printed out and either laminated or slipped into a laminated pouch. You can use it to form numbers and fish with playdough or you can simply print this, write a number in the box, and have your child place the correct number of goldfish crackers in the tree. This activity can be extended beyond counting to introduce early addition and subtraction. For addition, my daughters would count and place the number of fish on the the lower branches then move everything to the top of the tree, count again, and solve. For subtraction, they would first place all the fish at the top of the tree, move the number of fish that was to be subtracted down to one of the lower branches, recount, and solve. My preschooler and kindergartener especially loved this activity… probably because it involved a lot of snacking.

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I hope you find something inspiring and fun to help celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday!