Dr. Seuss’ birthday will soon be here {March 2nd} and many teachers are gearing up for a birthday celebration! Whether you are a Dr. Seuss fan or not, you do have to admit that his rhymes are contagiously silly and make a great springboard for so many important literacy skills.
Today, we’re sharing more than 15 activities and printables for toddlers through elementary kids that can help you celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday in super fun ways!
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Celebrate Dr. Seuss’ Birthday with These Activities
1. Roll-a-Rhyme Activity Pack– With THREE levels of rhyming for toddlers, preschoolers, and beyond!
2. Listening for Rhymes with Clip Cards– These clip cards add a fun twist…find and clip the picture that DOESN’T rhyme!
3. Rhyme Time Pre-K/K Pack– This FREE pack contains 15+ hands-on activities for rhyming including an emergent reader and printable rhyming song.
4. Roll & Write Words that Rhyme – With game boards for short and long vowel words.
5. Dr. Seuss Word Family Hats – Printable word family sorts for short and long vowel words with lots of adaptations!
6. Rhyme Time Cut it Out! Pack – This pack contains FOUR levels of cutting, plus a SUPER cute Cat in the Hat hat kids can make and wear to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday.
7. Rhyming Scavenger Hunt – What a FUN way to extend the silly rhymes found in There’s a Wocket in my Pocket. Kids can draw and hide their own creatures, the give rhyming clues.
8. 20 Songs that Add Rhyme to Your Routine – Rhyming fun can be integrated right into your day with these songs!
9. Christian Nursery Rhymes– Years ago, I adapted 15 popular nursery rhymes for my firstborn. Here they all are in one place in an updated pack!
10. Flip a Word– Spell, draw and read rhyming words with this free printable pack for short vowels.
11. CVC Words: Rhyming Blackout– Read, rhyme, and play with CVC words.
12. CVCe Words: Rhyming Blackout– More fun reading and rhyming with CVCe words.
13. Cut & Paste a Rhyme – Each of our Pre-K/K Packs and our letter packs from Reading the Alphabet contain cut and paste rhyming activities, perfect for practicing those rhyming words.
14. Rhyme Time BINGO Boards – This pack has 20 boards (2 different fonts available) to make rhyming a fun game.
15. FREE Poems for Kids – Our FREE, seasonal poetry packs feature activities specifically designed for K-2nd graders that can work on reading with fluency, writing, spelling, and comprehension! Our newest pack is in honor of Dr. Seuss and features a silly poem about making rhyming words.
16. Sight Word Rhyming Game – Similar to concentration, this game has four levels of play with a FUN twist! I also created some sight word worksheets that feature the same rhyming sight words.
17. Rhyme Time with the Cat in the Hat – I think one of my favorite activities from this post in our rhyming game we played on our pocket chart with The Cat in the Hat.
18. Rhyming Book Lists – Read a rhyming book! We have several book lists that feature rhyming words including: Rhyming Books for Kids, Rhyming Books that You Can SING!, and Rhyming Books & Poetry for Older Readers.
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~Becky
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