A Birthday Party for Dr. Seuss

I am always looking for a reason to turn an ordinary day into a holiday. I have been looking forward to celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday with the kids all year.
They woke up to a breakfast of "Green eggs and Ham". This is a must and they were actually really good sports about eating this. I thought a couple of them wouldn't have anything to do with it.
We spent the day reading these books. I have quite a few Dr. Seuss books (although I want then ALL). We couldn't find a couple of them, but we had quite enough to keep us busy.
For dinner I scoured the internet for some good ideas and this is what I came up with from this site. We had "Yink pink ink" to drink.
Roast beast. This is from the book "The Grinch that Stole Christmas."
Apples from "Ten Apples up on Top". Sorry, not the most appetizing picture.
This was "Who hash," and so good! Also from "The Grinch that Stole Christmas."
The boys were so excited about dinner. They also loved that my placemats totally look Dr. Seussy.
This was what we had for dessert (One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish). That was probably the hit of the night. I didn't want to put the fish IN the Jello as I have seen them lose their color and turn slimy, so we opted for the top and the kids thought it rocked.
See? What did I tell you/
McKay started getting so silly with it. He was growling at us all. We got it on tape, I will put it on here soon, it was so funny.

After dinner I had word searches, coloring pages and a form that helped us write a poem.
The boys helped me think of words that rhymed and then I wrote the poems.

There once was a King, who loved to sing. The poor thing was tied up with string until he would bring his friends Ming and Ping to the Spring Fling." Pretty good little poets huh? We had a couple more goodies :)
It got too late to do the games that I had planned "Cat, Cat, Hat" (played like duck duck goose. I also found these fun craft ideas here and here. Oh well, maybe next year (or next week on a day we are bored :)