It’s been a while since we’ve been able to participate in the Virtual Book Club, but I was super excited for the month of February – Dr. Seuss!
So with Dr. Seuss’s birthday coming up soon (March 2nd) plus Virtual Book Club, I couldn’t wait any longer to dive into all the ideas I have to celebrate this occasion.
For the festivities we read our current favorites, The Foot Book and There’s a Zamp in my Lamp.
We also read several others we’ve been checking out for the first time, including One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
So let’s get started shall we?
I’ll start the Seuss-A-Palooza with a free printable that goes along with One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, our current Dr. Seuss read :)
It’s a simple game to practice counting, numbers, and colors with a fish bowl & some little fishies to swim in the bowl :)
Fine motor skills are also practiced by having their little hands pick up the small game pieces and placing them in the bowl
Here’s what you’ll need:
- fishbowl game board printable (see below to print)
- fish pieces printable (see below to print)
- 1” wooden square block
- a set of dice
- Mod Podge, gloss finish
- foam brush
- 1” circle punch
(you could also cut these out individually – but a punch makes it a lot easier ;)
- optional: laminator & 2 lamination sheets (I always laminate all my activity printables for V to withstand the test of toddler time!)
Here’s how to make it:
- Print out your two printable sheets (see below to print); the game board & game pieces
- Before you laminate the fish sheet, using your circle punch, punch out one fish in each color to make the die, set these 6 fish aside
- Laminate both printable sheets
- Using your 1” circle punch, punch out all your little fishies. These 72 laminated pieces are your game pieces (12 of each color because the highest number that can be rolled is twelve)
- Next, attach the 6 non-laminated fish circles to the wooden die
Once the fish die is dry, gather your set of regular dice, game pieces and game board to begin.
Make an advanced game to count up to 24.
Just print out a second fish printable, and follow the instructions to make a second fish die along with 72 more colored fish game pieces.
click on each button to print the PDF downloads
If you’d like to participate in the Virtual Book Club too, see here to find out the monthly book selections.
Also, make sure you check out the Virtual Book Club Facebook page as well, for daily happenings :)
Take a look at our current Dr. Seuss favorites…
xx ♥ m
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Just got them! I adore them Karen – thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
xx ♥ m
Im trying to download the pieces and game but nothing is coming up when i click on the icon. Please Help! I love this idea and it would be great for an extension plan for the book! Thank you
Hey Jessica – just tried it on my phone & it came up fine…hmmmm….do you have Adobe Acrobat reader? You can download it at the bottom of my post. What exactly comes up when you click on it? What browser are you using? I’m in the car with my techie hubs so if I could get a little more info from you we might be able to help :) xx ♥ m
I’m using my mac os x version 10.5.8 im using safari, do you think that is the problem? when I click on the tab another page pops up like if it was going to download but nothing happens. Should I try it from my iphone?
I got it to work through my phone, thank you!! xoxo :)
Yay! :))
Such a fun idea!! Thanks for sharing :)
I also wanted to let you know I featured you on my blog today: http://www.artsyfartsymama.com/2013/03/pinteresting-features-n-shtuff-71.html
Wow! Thank you Lindsay! I’m glad you love it :) Thanks again for the feature – made my day! xx ♥ m
This is such a creative idea, and I really appreciate that you shared your free printable! I featured your photo and post in my 50+ Montessori-Inspired Dr. Seuss Activities post today.
Squeal! Thank you so much Deb – I’m glad you love it :) Thank you again for the feature! xx ♥ m
thank you so much! We will be using this game for my early admin. kindergartens
So awesome Nicole! Yay I’m so glad it well be useful for your class :). Thanks for checking them out! xx ♥ m