Dr. Seuss Activities For Horton Hears A Who

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Happy TBT (Throw Back Thursday). Elephants are my favorite animals.  Although I truly love them all, the elephant holds an extra special place in my heart.  Perhaps this is why I find Dr. Seuss's Horton so endearing.  I'm also a huge fan of Elmer the Elephant as well.  

They were also very popular characters with my Y5's.  With that in mind, I designed some Horton-themed activities, with a splash of Elmer for comparison. This blast- from-the-past blog article, features 3 popular elephant-themed downloads that I hope your kiddos will enjoy. 

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They have a choice of 22 "trunk tales" to pick from.  These are on separate trunks, which they trim and glue to their elephant head, then complete the writing prompt.  Completed projects make an awesome bulletin board. 

The packet also includes an elephant puppet craftivity made out of a toilet paper tube.  If you don't have time for this as a kid-craft, make one up to use as a manipulative when you read the book. 

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Children write their name and in Seuss-style sing song rhyme, write a few lines of what they heard: 

"Diane heard a Harley, which was really quite snarly. The Harley's name was Karly and she likes vegetable soup with barley."  

There's room under the ear for the student's illustration.  These too, make a sweet bulletin board.

Finally, I designed a whopping 42-page Horton-Elmer packet that covers lots of Common Core State Standards in interesting and fun ways.

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Here they compare charaters (Horton with Elmer), as well as each story.  For more practice, the 2 hexagon worksheets will reinforce descriptive writing using adjectives. 

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Finally, there are a few rhyming, alphabetical-order worksheets with an alphabetical list of 47 words that rhyme with who. 

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horton hears a who activities, horton crafts, horton video, horton writing prompts, elephant crafts, elephant activities, elephant mask, elephant puppet, Seuss activities, Seuss crafts, Seuss games, comparing Elmer with Horton activities, common core Seuss, common core horton hears a who, alphabetical list of words that rhyme with whoThanks for visiting.  I'm not quite ready to let Seuss stuff go, as I'm finishing up a Cat in the Alphabet Hat packet, which has taken much longer to complete than I had planned. 

Any hoo, I hope you can pop by tomorrow for my newest Seuss FREEBIE hot off the press.  Time to go make meatloaf for dinner.  I'm wishing you a day as sweet as Horton and Elmer.

 "We won't tell anyone. And if we do, we'll tell them not to tell anyone." -Dr. Seuss's Tommy, from Horton Hears a Who

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