dr seuss - the lorax

I forgot to blog about this a couple weeks ago even though I very purposefully took pictures to document all that we did- d'oh!  So here's a quick rundown on how we celebrated the release of the movie The Lorax and Dr. Seuss's birthday....

First the kids read the Lorax (after a bit they got bored of the reading part, we switched to the nook and they used the read to me feature ha ha ha)  Also, you'll see that A is "reading" along with the story.  She has read it so many times on the nook that its pretty much memorized!

Then they started working on some projects drawing a Truffula tree.  It was using multiple mediums...

Crayons...

Paint....

And we even sprayed perfume on them so it would smell like "fresh butterfly milk" as stated in the book :)

The fluff for the trees was, of course, raw wool that I had cleaned and dyed  :)

 

In the book you have to pay to hear the story, we used coins to figure out how many different combinations could be used to come up with 15 cents.

Little A likes drawing more, so she took the opportunity to draw a picture of the Lorax.

Remember, this was BEFORE they saw the movie, in the book there is no picture of the Once-ler, so they each drew a picture of what they thought the Once-ler would look like.

Below shows (left to right, even though the subtitle on the pages may differ...) the Lorax by A, the Once-ler by A, and the Once-ler by X

 

We also used the some of the main themes of the story and talked about the difference between NEEDS and WANTS.