Getting Silly with a Dr. Seuss Party

Activities

• Read "Mister Brown Can Moo, Can You" to very young children and have them repeat the sounds.
• Ask party guests to wear and show their funniest socks for "The Foot Book".
• Ask guests to craft an outrageous hat ("The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"). Supply party hats, feathers, sequins and other items children can glue all over the hats.
• Plant trees in the ground or seeds in pots after reading "The Lorax" with older children. Children can paint the pots prior to planting and take them home as party favors.
• Play catch with balls that have had stars stuck all over them ("Sneetches").
• Place stars on the bellies of the children ("Sneetches").
• Organize an egg hunt (use plastic eggs!) to act out "Scrambled Eggs Super!"
• Create turtles using paper plates, green paint, paper, scissors and markers ("Yertle the Turtle").
• Hold a fishing contest using either a child's fishing game or creating your own fishing game ("One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish"). Do this by making fish out of cardboard (Web Clip Art Guide Bobbie Peachey has fish clip art that will help you) and making fishing poles out of wooden dowels and string. Attach opposite pole magnets to the fish and fishing poles, place the fish in a big tub, and send the kids fishing.
• Hold a "Fox in Socks" tongue twister contest for older kids. Have them take turns repeating phrases from the book at a faster and faster pace. Eliminate contestants as they become tongue twisted until only one contestant is left.
• Have young children march in a parade with instruments created from pots, pans, spoons, and brooms ("Fox in Socks").
• Organize a relay race with children putting on and taking off gloves (Snuvs in gloves from "Oh! The Thinks You Can Think!").
• Play a Dr. Seuss trivia game with older children.

Food

• Serve ABC cutout cookies for "Dr. Seuss's ABC". Or let young children help you with cutting them out as a party activity.
• Serve ice cream sundaes called Schlopp ("The Thinks You Can Think"). They must be served with a cherry on top!
• I would be remiss if I didn't advocate a platter of green eggs and ham ("Green Eggs and Ham"). The green eggs can be created adding a little blue food coloring to your scrambled eggs before cooking. If the group is small enough, they can help you with the food coloring and scrambling. They will be more likely to eat it if they help.
• Offer a tray of bananas, apples, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and milk so they can have a snack with Brown and Black from "Hop on Pop".
• Finish off the meal with a double-layer frosted cake that looks like the one in "Cat in the Hat".

Party Favors

• Any items they helped create at the party such as crazy hats, ABC cookies, pots with seeds.
• Toy ships ("Cat in the Hat").
• Goldfish in small bowls ("Cat in the Hat").