Celebrate the Birthday of Dr. Seuss!

By Sarah

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Celebrate the Birthday of Dr. Seuss locally at:

Barnes & Noble -Main Street in Exton

Tuesday morning Storytime at 11:00am
Saturday morning (March 6th) 11:00am Storytime - Green Eggs & Ham

Barnes & Noble - Valley Forge
Saturday morning storytime - (March 6th) 11:00am

Downingtown Library
Business Rt. 30, Downingtown
4:00-5:00PM
Celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss
All children K through 5th grade are invited.
Help celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with stories, craft and a snack.
Would anyone like some Green Eggs and Ham?
This event is free, but registration required. Sign up at the circulation desk or call Karen Smith at 610-269-2741.

Other Chester County Library Events

A perfect gift for new parents, birthday celebrations, and happy occasions of all kinds, this collection of five beloved Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss—The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Green Eggs and Ham, Hop on Pop, and Fox in Socks—will be cherished by young and old alike. Ideal for reading aloud or reading alone, they will begin a child on the adventure of a lifetime!

We found these super fun crafts online at about.com
Make a Light Bulb Cat-In-The-Hat Craft.
Make your own Home-made Books.
Give the children a variety of craft supplies and recycling items (for example, glue, toilet paper rolls, egg cartons, pipe cleaners, felt, yarn, pom-poms, wiggle eyes, etc.) and challenge them to create their own unique creature like those in many of Dr. Seuss' books. Encourage them to write a story about their creature.
Make a Horton Hears a Who craft.
Create your own Dr. Seuss coloring book using some of these pictures.
Make your own Cat-In-The-Hat hat or a cat ear headband.
Create your own Cat-in-The-Hat story sack.
Create your own Horton Hears a Who story sack.
Print out this Dr. Seuss bookmark to color.
Make this Green Eggs and Ham Placemat.
Print out this Cat in The Hat maze or dot-to-dot to do.
Make birthday cards and hang them around the room.
Make some of these Grinch Crafts.
Try some of these Dr. Seuss Printables.
Make a Cat-in-the-Hat Hat.
See how many of these Dr. Seuss characters you know.
See if you can match the quotes with the characters who said them.

Filed Under: Family Fun · Tagged With: Chester County Library, Dr. Seuss, Party

Originally published by Sarah Freymoyer and the Philly Burb Moms team on March 2, 2010.