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The Book We Love
Not sure how Aedan got to pick two books in a row, but here we are! He loves this zany tale, and it’s an interactive story as well! Instead of just knowing there’s something wacky happening in each scenario, Dr. Seuss tells you how many crazy things are happening, so it becomes a game of I-Spy too!
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The Activity We Did
"'But look!' I yelled. 'Eight things are wrong here at school.' 'Nothing is wrong,' they said. 'Don't be a fool.'"
LeSieg, T. (2018). Wacky Wednesday. In Big Green Book of Beginner Books (pp. 136–173). essay, Random House New York.
Squished Together
You Will Need:
- Paper (construction paper, printer paper, lined paper, whatever you’ve got)
- Coloring instruments (crayons, colored pencils, markers, again - whatever you’ve got!)
How to Play:
Simple enough, take two random objects and try to mix them together to create a new creature! Faye wanted to mix her love of large cats with her love of chocolate, so we’ve got a cheetah with chocolate chips as spots!
The Food We Ate
"I looked in the kitchen. I said, "By cracky! Five more things are very wacky!"
LeSieg, T. (2018). Wacky Wednesday. In Big Green Book of Beginner Books (pp. 136–173). essay, Random House New York.
Wacky Snacky Menu
You Will Need:
- Printouts of the Wacky Snacky Menu (see download below)
- Pens
- Food and drink, kitchen utensils, a random assortment of whatever you can find in your kitchen to fill each category
Menu and Key:
Instructions:
Make a meal of nonsense! Print out the key to the Wacky Snacky Menu and assign each nonsense word to a specific item in that category. For example, for vegetables for our meal, squirt was corn, bushwa was green beans, and flimflam was sweet peas!
Print out copies of the menu, one for each person to place their own order. Give them each a pen, and let them pick one item per category. Here’s the fun — they won’t know what they’re actually ordering!
We did our meal for lunch after church, so more snack-type foods instead of actual meal components. Since everything is just so mixed, you get all sorts of results! Our kids are picky eaters, so we chose to make the main course not an option they ordered, to make sure they would actually eat. Faye ended up drinking rannygazoo (fanta) from a blague (measuring cup), and ate fribble (shredded cheese), bushwa (green beans), nugament (BBQ sauce), and bugaboo (chocolate chips) from a flapdoodle (large bowl) with a malarkey (serving spoon) and slipslop (paper towel). Aedan drank tootle (root beer) from a blague (measuring cup), and ate kelter (goldfish), squit (corn), fustian (ranch dressing), and bugaboo (chocolate chips), from a rottack (paper plate) with a haver (knife) and slipslop (paper towel).
Other Fun Ideas
Animal Mix-Up
Make crazy animals! Different heads, torsos, and feet! The more ridiculous an activity is, the more my kids enjoy it, and this is an easy, hands-free game for them!
Other Activities
Some other fun resources for the book, and other crafty ideas that we didn't do... yet. To be honest, I usually have a bit of trouble finding extra activities to share, but this book has TONS available online!
- The Homeschool Resource Room: Find 20 more activities, like silly surprises, craft ideas, STEM activities, and dress-up ideas!
- Team Me. I'm Yours.: A lot of the "Wacky Wednesday" suggestions are for classroom settings too. And a lot for homeschool families. Here are some more activities, crafts, science experiments... for the house and school!
- Sphero: More science and STEM related ideas. This site isn't talking about the actual book by Dr. Seuss, but the ideas are some crazy science experiments to try out!
- Creative Drama: Another classroom setting group of ideas, this one from a drama teacher.
- Teachers Pay Teachers: If you're looking for some more printable ideas, find them here! Ways to incorporate craziness into math lessons, writing prompts, etc.
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