Cook up your own recipe of green eggs and ham with the help of your pre-K students. Kids can help beat the eggs to scramble them, add green food coloring or chopped green peppers and parsley, and even set the table. This teaches them about healthy eating habits if you bring the food groups into the discussion and also helps them learn proper table manners. Have the children follow a written recipe with photos of every step and it becomes a reading lesson; add in measurements for the ingredients to incorporate math.
Being able to read words isn't the only way younger children can build their reading skills. Pre-K students can create a simple survey to help them learn to use charts; they can ask their classmates if they like items such as green eggs and ham and other foods, particular television shows or school activities. Then they can tally up the "yes" and "no" responses they get and report back to the class. Another way to incorporate reading is through rhyming sounds. The book has several rhymed pairs in it, such as fox/box and ham/Sam. Pre-K students can cut up images from magazines and match them into pairs for a sorting game that involves rhyming skills as well as organizational ones.
Children can learn about primary colors and blending when they use blue and yellow paints to make green. Once they have the paints mixed, they can finger-paint eggs and ham onto a paper plate or decorate a green place mat on construction paper to use at lunch time. Cutting and pasting skills will also work well with this unit, where children can cut construction-paper circles in green and glue them to white egg backgrounds. Another project involves letting children re-create their favorite scenes from the book by drawing the characters with their green eggs and ham all over town.