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Green Eggs and Ham Game: Color Word Eggs

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This Green Eggs and Ham game helps kids with color identification and color word spelling. Perfect for celebrating Dr. Seuss Day.

One of the most popular Dr. Seuss books is Green Eggs and Ham.  “I do not like them, Sam-I-Am. I do not like green eggs and ham.” Every March we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Day with fun activities to compliment Seuss books.  Today, I’ve got a fun Green Eggs and Ham game to build color word recognition.

This Green Eggs and Ham game helps kids with color identification and color word spelling. Perfect for celebrating Dr. Seuss Day.

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Green Eggs and Ham Game and Book

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The Book

“Do you like green eggs and ham?”  That question gets asked over and over again in Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

The Activity

Materials Needed: colored plastic eggs, brown lunch bags, dry erase marker, black marker, plastic sleeve, letter tiles, and word printable (free download below)

Set-up is easy. 

sort eggs into color bag nests

  • Place the correct letter tiles in one egg of each color to spell the color word.
  • Place all the eggs in a basket. 
  • Make paper nests by folding down the sides of a brown paper lunch bag. Write a color word on each nest to match the color eggs you have on hand.
  • Print the free download of the word mat.  Place in a plastic sleeve and include a dry erase marker.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE WORD MAT PAGE

Time to play. 

  • Read each word on the nest with the child. 
  • The child then sorts the eggs into the matching nest. (You could stop here with a young child.)
  • After the child sorts the words, she can shake each egg to find those that contain letter tiles.
  • She can crack each egg open and put the letters in the correct order to spell the color word on the word mat.  Use the nest as a guide for each word.
  • After the child builds the word with tiles, she can then write the word on the mat.
  • Erase and repeat for the next egg.

For more Dr. Seuss ideas, check out these posts from other bloggers participating in the Virtual Book Club for Kids.

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Color My Feelings with My Many Colored Days from Teach Beside Me

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Wacky Wednesday Visual Preception Activity from OT Toolbox

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Listening

Horton Hears a Who Listening Activities from JDaniel4’s Mom

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Lorax Cause and Effect Matching Game from Inspiration Laboratories

Art

Wacky Painting for Kids Inspired by Wacky Wednesday from Toddler Approved

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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