Dr. Seuss Green Eggs and Ham Activities: Contractions and Colors

1-2-3 Come Learn Contractions and Color Words With Me!

I wanted to make another activity to help students learn and practice contractions. Since spring is just around the corner, I thought I'd design contraction eggs. You can use them for Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham lessons or someting related to spring or Easter.

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If you need a transition activity after reading Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham, then run the templates off on various shades of green. You could also revisit this activity for St. Patty's Day too.

If you'd like it to be an activity students can do through out spring, then run off the templates on a variety of bright and pastel colored construction paper. You can keep the laminated eggs in a basket.

I've included a blank set of eggs for you to program with upper and lowercase letters, word wall words, spelling words, equations or whatever else you can think of, to make games for your students.

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Another egg activity that I think your students will enjoy is an egg color matching game.

Students can match either the colored egg yolk to the color word, in a face up fashion, or flip the cards over and match a colored egg with a color word egg, as a Memory Match game.

If you have plastic eggs, have students twist them apart and match the colors and color words that way. Students can also play "I Have; Who Has?" i.e. "I have the color word egg yellow. Who has the yellow egg?"