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Dr Seuss Painting Activities for Kids of All Ages

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14 May
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Bring your favorite Dr. Seuss stories to life with a craft! These Dr Seuss painting activities are perfect for kids of all ages. Pick your favorite and let your kids get crafty!

Whether you’re looking for a Dr. Seuss’ ABC Book, a salt dough craft, or blow painting, you’ll find them all (and more) below. Some of these require very little prep. Others are a little more in depth. All of them are sure to engage your kids and inspire them to  read their favorite Dr. Seuss books!

Bring your favorite Dr. Seuss stories to life with a craft! These Dr Seuss painting activities are perfect for kids of all ages. Pick your favorite and let your kids get crafty!

You’ll find crafts for some of Dr. Seuss’s most popular stories and a few of his lesser-known works. No matter what you’re reading, you’ll find a fun painting activity to go along with it below.

Dr Seuss Painting Activities

After reading The Foot Book with your preschoolers, they can paint footprint murals in this open-ended Dr. Seuss painting activity.

Have your kids tried blow painting yet? They’re sure to love blow-painting some hair on Thing 1 and Thing 2!

Simple handprint fish make a great follow-up activity after reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish with your kids.

I’m not sure I’ve seen anything cuter than this Dr. Seuss-inspired Thing 1 and Thing 2 handprint art activity!

You won’t believe how easy it is to turn some boring sticks into Truffula trees in this Truffula Forest Craft based on The Lorax.

Make a set of apple prints, and then use them to practice counting after you read Ten Apples Up on Top. 

Handprint crafts are the best! Read The Cat in the Hat with your kids and then try your hand at a Cat in the Hat or fish in a bowl handprint craft.

Pull some plastic forks out of your craft closet, and let your little ones try making some Dr. Seuss-inspired fork painted Truffula Trees.

Bring your favorite Dr. Seuss stories to life with a craft! These Dr Seuss painting activities are perfect for kids of all ages. Pick your favorite and let your kids get crafty!

Crafting doesn’t get any easier than painting with corks. Gather a few, and your kids can make some cork-painted red fish and blue fish.

This Dr. Seuss-inspired handprint fish canvas will look great hanging in your classroom or homeschool room.

Combine handprint crafts and cardboard tube crafts when you and your students make some Thing 1 and Thing 2 handprint crafts.

Have your students talk about what they want to be when they grow up after reading Oh, the Places You’ll Go. Then, let them create a hot air balloon craftivity that combines art and writing.

Fingerprint art is a low-prep activity you can do with students of all ages. They’ll love making a Cat in the Hat fingerprint mosaic.

After reading I Wish That I Had Duck Feet, invite little ones to wear foam duck feet as they make some duck feet prints.

This Lorax paper plate craft is sure to be a hit with your little readers. Use felt, craft foam, or construction paper to make his facial features.

If your little ones love Dr. Seuss’ ABC Book, they won’t be able to resist making their very own footprint Fiffer Feffer Feff.

Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a Thing 1 and Thing 2 handprint canvas craft. It’s perfect for Seuss’s birthday or the birthday of a loved one.

Try your hand at making microwave salt dough, and use it to make a handprint Lorax craft.

Which one of these Dr Seuss painting activities will you and your kids do first?

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