If You Give a Pig a Pancake

A couple weeks ago we made a day out of reenacting scenes from the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie." You can view what we did by clicking here.  My little guy had a really fun time with it and kept asking to do it again but with the pig or moose.  He has been really into cooking lately and keeps pretending to make pancakes so I got really excited about doing this with him.  We broke this one up into 2 days because last time we did it all in one day and it felt like we were having to rush the kids from one activity to the next.  

Anywho, here is what we did: We read the book lots of times leading up to this.

First, we made piggy ears and snouts.

Then we made pancakes!

We have a favorite pancake recipe if you are looking for a good one you can find it here.

Dad reviewed what happened in the book while I made pancakes.

Next, we ate pancakes with lots of maple syrup...

the kids got sticky so they took a bath.

Then the kids got dressed and danced to music

We wrote some letters and colored some pictures for grandparents, put them in envelopes and added a stamp to the corner and took them to the Post Office. 

Then we built a fort (In the book it's a tree house, but this was good for us)

It was a very simple activity but lots of fun!  We enjoyed being little piggies for a day. 

My little boy is still taking about doing an activity for "If You Give a Moose a Muffin" so I am sure we will be sharing that soon.  He doesn't know about the book "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake" but I am planning to do something fun with that too.  Have fun with your activities!

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

We absolutely love this book! The little boy in this story gives a mouse a cookie and then ends up doing all sorts of things to keep the mouse happy. This story reminds of what it’s like to be a mother constantly running from thing to thing to keep the kids busy/happy. Our kids love this book too so we decided to make an activity day out of it!

First we made cookies

And these cute little mouse ears

(we made them from a sheet of pink paper, a grocery bag and a glue stick)

Then we read the book together wearing our mouse ears

After we read the book we reenacted scenes from it

We had a cookie with milk, a straw and a napkin just like in the book

(This was our kids favorite part)

We pretended to trim the boys hair...they didn't really get into this part.

We cleaned the house

Took a nap...really just played in blankets

Colored a picture...

...and hung it on the fridge with tape

Then, we had another glass of milk and a cookie.

Our kids really loved this activity, my little boy is already talking about doing our next activity...he wants to do "If You Give a Mouse a Muffin," I am sure we will be doing that soon. If you haven't read this book you should give it a shot its by Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond. Have fun!

Dr. Seuss Fun

March 2nd was read across America day and the 108th Birthday of Dr. Seuss. I wanted to do something special with my kids to celebrate both.  We read lots and lots of books...including lots of Dr. Seuss Books. Our favorites are The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham although we like a lot of others too.  In preparing activities for my kids I had the thought to put together a list of some of our favorite Dr. Seuss books along with an activity and treat to go along with them. I ended up finding an AMAZING packet online with a ton of fun ideas...I LOVE it!  Rather then create my own I wanted to share it with you along with some additional ideas/pictures.  I love all these fun ideas!

You can find this free packet over at Oopsey Daisy.  It has great ideas and some printables for lots of Dr. Seuss's books including: The Foot Book, Fox in Socks, Horton Hears a Who!, Dr. Seuss's ABC, Green Eggs and Ham, Wacky Wednesday, The Sneetches, The Shape of Me and Other Stuff, Bartholomew and the Oobleck, If I Ran the Zoo, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, The Lorax, The Cat in the Hat, Hop on Pop, There's a Wocket in my Pocket, Oh the Places You'll Go!, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. It really is a great resource.  Once you have clicked on the link go to the tab "Mommy School" and look for the picture above...she has lots of other great packet too!

The more that you read

the more things you will know,

the more that you learn

the more places you'll go!

            ~Dr. Seuss

List of Dr. Seuss Books @ No Twiddle Taddle

You'r never too old,

too wacky, too wild,

to pick up a book

and read to a child!

           ~Dr. Seuss

We made some of these cute cupcakes, I got the idea from Bump Smitten 

We also enjoyed swedish fish in blue jello, picture from Simple Girl

Here are some fun treats I saw online:

Easy Breakfast Idea...just cover a yogurt with paper, Idea from Creativity My Passion

Fun lunch idea from A New Dawn

Another fun Lunch Idea @ Muffin Tin Mom

 Yummy Chocolate Green Eggs along with a tutorial @ Random Thoughts of a Supermom

Cute snack Idea @ Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons

A couple activity Ideas:

Cut Pencil Toppers @ Skip To My Lou

Pipe Cleaner Fun @ Craft Jr.

Blocks with a tutorial @ Sugar Bee

Thing 1 and 2 Art @ Serving Pink Lemonade

The Lorax Activity with instructions @ Blue Skies Ahead

Mini Cat in the Hat. I saw this idea via Sarah Butler on Pintrest, there wasn't a webpage. 

Some cute Party Ideas:

Dr Seuss and Green Eggs and Ham Party @ Pizzazzerie

More Party Ideas @ Mom of 2 Precious Boys

More Party Ideas @ Annie's Eats

One more Party Idea @ Nothing but Country

A Few Other things I liked:)

Dr. Seuss Fonts Links found at Coolest Family on the Block

Teaching Ideas @ 2 Teaching Mommies

Lots of resources and great coloring pages @ Seussville

Have Fun with your Dr. Seuss Activities!