Green Eggs and Ham

This is an awesome craft that is fun and easy to do, plus it becomes a fun game you can play for hours afterward. It can enhance word recognition, learning rhymes and fine motor skills.

Age: 2 & up
Difficulty rating: 1 out of 5
Messiness rating: minimal
Time: 10 minutes

Supplies:
Coffee Can or large tin can
13 Clothes Pins (either kind--spring or no)
Craft glue
print out pictures
paint (optional)
Decorations for can (optional)

The Rhymes:
Here/There
House/Mouse
Fox/Box
Car
Boat/Goat
Train/Rain
Dark
Tree

The Craft

1. If you are going to paint the clothes pins, do this first.
   
2. Print out and have your child color the pictures.
3. Cut out the pictures and glue them to each clothes pin.
   
4. As you read the story, you can have the child put the pins on the can as the rhyme moves along, or you can have the child match the rhyming words.
   
5. You can also write the word on the bottom of the clothes pin to start to teach word recognition.
   
6. You can have the child decorate the tin with tissue paper and a 50/50 glue water mixture, but this bumps up the messiness rating to like 7 out of 5. The kiddo would paint the tin with the glue mixture and apply the tissue/wrapping paper to the outside. Let dry thoroughly before putting the pins on the tin.
   

Pictures and templates:
to come soon!