the lorax

Tonight we are having "dad's night" at my son's preschool.  Traditionally this has been a teacher run event, but for various reasons this year it has been taken over by the board/parents.  We choose The Lorax as our theme.  As I have been planning for this evening I was thinking that it would also make a great theme for a birthday party!  There are lots of ideas all over the web and Pinterest and I even have a board full of Dr. Seuss ideas that you can check out here.  For tonight, the children will be making Lorax pots and planting grass seed in them.  They will sort recyclables into their appropriate bins, take pictures with some  Lorax themed photo props and will munch on Truffula tree cupcakes, humming fish, and bar ba loots!   My son is SO excited for tonight and I couldn't be happier to help plan this event for him. 

truffula trees

 

 

 

Last week was the last day that my the student teacher in my daughter's first grade class would be there.  Her teacher had the idea to make truffula trees so when I saw this idea on Pinterest, I knew they would be perfect.  They were quite easy to make and luckily I had all of the ingredients at home.  I think they came out pretty cute!  I saw some other pins where people used pretzel sticks for the tree trunk, mine used straws.  If you want to make them all edible, I also thought it might be cute to use Pirouline cookies.  These would be great for a Dr. Seus or Lorax party or even as a special treat for Arbor day.