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Skills This Activity Explores
I decided that this activity needed to involve a lot more learning skills than just cutting these shapes. (Though cutting skills could have been enough.) Involving tracing, cutting, letter writing, and visualizing in the activity seemed more exciting.
Finding the Craft Supplies in the Recycling Bin
That led me to get a pizza box out of the recycling bin and cutting out the shapes we would use to build the Dr. Seuss’ Thing One and Thing Two. The cardboard the pizza box was made of was super easy to cut out and thick enough to make tracing easy. Although we had cereal boxes in the bin too, I decided that their cardboard would be too thin to trace around.
Making the Shapes
I went with small tracing shapes for this project. Small shapes would fit onto a half sheet of construction paper when assembled into Thing One and Thing Two. They worked out well for this project. JDaniel did a good job tracing them. I would have made bigger tracing shapes for a slightly younger child.
Then I put out all the supplies on the table for him and asked him to join me in creating. Having everything ready to go helped the creation process go very smoothly.
![Dr. Seuss Math Activity - Tracing Shapes](https://jdaniel4smom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/dr_seuss_math_activity_tracing.png)
JDaniel Creates the Dr. Seuss Shape Activity
Tracing carefully was easy for JDaniel. He placed the shapes all over the paper which gave him a lot of wiggle room for cutting. I had wedged all my shapes into one side of the red, white, and blue paper when I had cut my shapes out to save paper. When I saw what he was doing, I was glad we hadn’t done our tracing together. He might have tried to follow my lead and his way was better for him.
![Assembling the Dr. Seuss Shape Activity Featuring Thing Two](https://jdaniel4smom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/dr_seuss_shape_activity_thing_two.png)
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![Assembling the Dr. Seuss Shape Activity Featuring Thing One and Thing Two](https://jdaniel4smom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/dr_seuss_shape_activity_think_1.png)
Thing One turned out great. I love how JDaniel completed this Dr. Seuss shape activity. His creature has eyes that make me think he is up to something and he has a very warm smile.
- blue, white, and red construction paper
- glue sticks
- scissors
- cardboard shape to trace
- black markers
Are you looking for some other Dr. Seuss activities? Here are some others we have done:
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ok, I love this! what a fun activity for the kids, and for the parents too! Stopping by from #sitsblogging
great activity…
LOVE HIS HANDWRITING 🙂
I did turn out great. I love Dr. Suess. 🙂
Awesome! My kids love Dr. Seuss!
He writes so well!
We just met Thing 1 and Thing 2 in Universal Studios and they were awesome in person!
How creative!! I’m constantly looking for craft projects to do with my son that correlate with a book. I’ve never seen this before it’s perfect!!!
Oh, my gosh!! That’s the cutest activity ever! I can’t get over how grown up JDaniel’s work is—even from just a year ago!! Aw!!! –Lisa
What a fun way to play with shapes.
I love this, Deirdre! Gotta love those colours, and there’s so much skill-building going on here!
That’s so cute!
What a cute Thing 1!
So cute! We’re practicing our cutting and shape skills so this one is perfect for us!
What a fun Dr. Seuss activity! So clever.
Thanks for linking up at TGIF. have a great weekend,
Beth
These are too cute and fun!