Turn yourselves into characters from your favorite Dr. Seuss stories by painting your own shirts. Ask each child to bring in a plain white t-shirt. Spread shirts out on a table and stick pieces of cardboard inside to keep the paint from seeping onto the backs. Invite each child to paint his shirt using foam brushes and fabric paints. Children might write words such as "Thing 2" or "Lorax" onto their shirts, or draw images. If children want to write words, write them on in pencil for children to trace. Let the paint dry completely before wearing your Seuss-inspired creations.
One of Dr. Seuss's most famous stories is "The Cat in the Hat," and creating hats of your own is fairly simple. Give each child one white and one red sheet of paper. Help children cut into the wide side of the red paper to create inch-thick strips. Ask children to glue these strips onto the white paper, leaving white gaps between strips. Make a headband for each child out of white paper, then staple or tape the striped paper to the headband with the stripes running horizontally. Advise children not to run while wearing their hats since the hat top may flop over if they move too quickly.
Encourage each child to channel her inner Dr. Seuss by creating her own illustrations for one of his stories. Reprint the words to one of Dr. Seuss's stories onto the bottoms of blank pieces of paper, writing a few sentences on each paper. Ask children to illustrate each page using their creativity, rather than copying the original illustrations. If children have started learning to write, let them write the story's words themselves. When children are done, staple their pages together to finish their books.
Dioramas created out of shoe boxes can bring two-dimensional books to life, and the colorful scenes Dr. Seuss created are ideally suited to recreating in a three-dimensional format. Ask each child to bring in an empty shoe box and choose a favorite Dr. Seuss book. Children can first paint the insides of their boxes to match a scene from the book, then form characters out of clay or cut them out of paper. Once children have glued their figures into the scenes, cover the front of the boxes with plastic wrap to keep pieces from falling out.