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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Doing DR SEUSS this week at Preschool for the letter S.
This will be so much fun for my kids to play!
Thank you.
Awesome!! Thank you Sinea – so happy you & your kiddos will benefit from it :) xx
this is quite lovely. thank you for sharing! i love the color palette you used for the fish. Seussy without being too Seussy!
Thank you Jessica!! xx
Hi, thanks for the great idea. I am new to blogging and I am doing 2 weeks worth of Dr. Seuss crafts and ctivities with my son. I was wondering if you minded if I put a link to your site up for one of the days. I do not plan on sharing how to do the activity just that it is a great idea and people should check it out. My plan is to have this post up on 2/14. Thank you. AmieJo
Thank you Amie Jo! Of course – I would love for you too :) xx
Thank you! This is awesome!!
Thank you Audre – glad you like it :) xx
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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
Love the activity, and the fact that you made it yourself. Dr Seuss is so much fun and makes for fun games.
Thanks Carolyn! I’m so happy you like it :) xx ♥ m
Wow what a great idea/offer. I work with 4-5yr olds. We do a big unit on Dr. Seuss, I will happily be adding this activity to the many I’ve collected over the years. Thanks so much for sharing it!
Wonderful Wanda! I’m so happy it will be useful for you and your class :) It makes me happy to provide a useful learning tool for little ones! Thanks for taking the time to comment! xx ♥ m
I’ve been looking all over for something like this. Thank you for the freebies! I teach Spanish and I’m planning a one fish two fish unit for numbers! This will work in any language.
Yay! So awesome – and super thrilled it is so easily adaptable to other languages as well! Thank you for the comment love! xx ♥ m
So in love with this
Thank you Vanessa – you are super sweet :) xx ♥ m
Love this game. Wondering if its okay to play it at our Library’s Dr Seuss Party? If not I understand why just wanted to check. Thanks so much.
-k
Hey Karen! Of course – as long as it’s not resold or distributed for payment – I’d love you too use (& secretly wish I could come too :)! Any of my printables are free to use for educational purposes :) Thanks for checking though!! And thanks for checking it out too!! I’m working on a few more to possible go along with this book or different Dr. Seuss books – so be sure to check back too! xx ♥ m
So does only one child play at a time? If a group of kids….. do they keep the fish in the bowl after playing their turn and what happens when they start to run out of fish. Say they roll the number 7, but there are not 7 blue fish left -what do you do?
Thank you. p
Hey Paula! Yes – it’s made for just one child to play – a nice little quiet game they can play when you are making dinner :) But you could absolutely play with more than one child by printing out more of the game pieces. Hope that helps! Thanks for stopping by & checking them out :) xx ♥ m
Thanks so much for the fun game. I posted a few pics on your FB feed of our kids playing your game. :)
So awesome Karen!!!! I love it – thank you :). But silly FB is not showing it – I even checked my spam :(. Can you email it to me? (mamamissblog@yahoo.com) & I’ll upload it to FB? I would love to see them :). Thanks!!!!
xx ♥ m
This game is adorable! And I love that it goes along with a book – Dr. Seuss at that ! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Erin! I’m glad you checked them out :) xx ♥ m
What a great counting game. My son would love to play this. Your pictures are great too!
Thanks Jodie! I hope he enjoys it as much as my daughter does :)
xx ♥ m
I love, love, love this! Shared on Playdough to Plato’s FB page and tweeted. Can’t wait to try this with my 3 year old.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Malia! I am so very grateful for the FB & Twitter love :) I hope your 3yo enjoyed it as much as V! xx ♥ m
This is a great idea for counting and color practice!
Thanks Trisha! I’m glad you like it :) xx ♥ m
love this, my kids love this book
Thanks Jamie :) xx ♥ m
What a fun idea! Thanks for so generously sharing your cute printable! I featured your post as the Free Printable of the Day at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/LivingMontessoriNow and on Pinterest.
Thanks Deb! So excited to be your free printable of the day – made my day :) xx ♥ m
What a fun game!!! Can’t wait to play!
Thanks Megan! Thanks for checking it out :) xx ♥ m
Such a fun game. Pinning it AND printing it out to play now.
Yay! Love it – thanks Carolyn & thanks for the pin love too :) xx ♥ m
These are super cute! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Sarah & thanks for checking it out :) xx ♥ m
Hello,
thank you for the nice idea, we also make this one ;-)
Thank you.
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Thank you Jassi!! I’m so glad you like it :) xx ♥ m