Word Play with Dr Seuss - Horton Hears A Who

My 5 year old daughter loves Dr Seuss books - what's not to like, the colourful pictures, the rhyming text, the giggle-inducing nonsensical words... As a parent, I love the moral messages in his books too, The Lorax is a personal favourite.

                                                      

My daughter picked Horton Hears a Who for her bedtime story tonight and we were both delighted to realise that it is set tomorrow, the fifteenth of May! So I decided to set up a related activity for the morning. I love the recurring line in it "A person's a person. No matter how small." The Whos are tiny little people who live on a speck of dust that Horton protects so I decided to use some tiny pegs (Who pegs!) as a fun way to form words from the book.

By sticking wooden chopsticks through a cereal box and tying elastic between them I created a Whoville washing line. A second piece of elastic tied tightly between the chopsticks inside the cereal box kept the washing line taut. 

   

I covered the cereal box with paper and drew some decorations on it, including a rather dodgy looking Horton, drawing isn't my strong point!! Finally I cut up some squares of paper, wrote some letters on some of them and left others blank for Phoebe to write or draw on. Hopefully she will enjoy picking words from the book and spelling them on the Whoville washing line!

Happy Horton Hears A Who day everyone! I may have made it up but it's totally going to be a thing in our house now, any excuse to read Dr Seuss!