Once I decided the theme, I started collecting party ideas and saving them to my Dr. Seuss Pinterest board – Pinterest is so fun and useful and unfortunately for me, such a huge waste of time too!  Anyway, I collected a bunch of ideas and given my procrastination on execution, I ended up foregoing some decorations at the last minute.  On the Wednesday before the party I sewed together the above hat (it stands up better than shown in this photo).  I made the hat using this tutorial, but made mine out of fleece and did 5 stripes for an authentic hat.

So first, I’ll start with the decorations.  Since we have a growing collection of Dr. Seuss books, we set those up around the room, then I made buntings with some Dr. Seuss books picked up from Goodwill.  There were 3 buntings total, one with There’s a Wocket in My Pocket, one with Green Eggs and Ham, and the third with In a People House.  Also to decorate I purchased a Dr. Seuss welcome set and put the creatures all over the house.  All the decorations (aside from the books which were returned to Arcadia’s bookcase) remain up in the house.

As many other Dr. Seuss party throwers did, we set up a table near the door requesting everyone to leave a birthday message to Arcadia.

Next up, the activities.  I have to say, once there were six 3-year olds running around the house, I was quite thankful that I had several activities planned and that the weather was good and we could play outside.  We started off with everyone putting together and coloring a Horton Hears a Who wooden puzzle (I found them on clearance at Michael’s) and then moved on to Dr. Seuss coloring pages.  Then, we went outside and played “The Cat says” (just like Simon Says) to warm up and run around.  Next, the kids went on an egg hunt a la Scrambled Eggs Super – once the eggs were collected, they were opened into a bowl and a few extra ingredients were added.  While the mixture set, we went on a music parade a la And to Think I saw in on Mulberry Street.  When we returned, we checked out our egg mix and found play dough (I had filled all the eggs with flour, salt, cream of tarter, and glitter then we had added the water and oil following this recipe).  The kids enjoyed playing with the dough then ran around the front yard and climbed (with parental help) our maple tree.  We don’t have any photos of the activities as Tysen was busy with Hazel and finishing the green eggs and I was leading all the activities.  Regardless, it was fun and generated many great memories.

Hazel had fun being Thing 2!

And, a Dr. Seuss party isn’t complete with out some Dr. Seuss themed food (recipes linked).  We had Oodles of Poodle Noodles, Colored Goldfish, Green Eggs, Caramel Turtles, Truffula Fruits (fruit platter with grapes, strawberries, tangerine slices, and pineapple), 3 Cheese Trees (cheese cubes sticking out of Styrofoam cones using toothpicks), and Cat in the Hat Cupcakes.  To drink there was Pink Yink Drink (strawberry lemonade and strawberry milk).  I made the milk by pureeing a bag of frozen strawberries with milk, then threw in 1/4 cup of raw sugar which made just shy of a 1/2 gallon of milk).  And, I have to give a big thanks to Tysen who executed all my food labels by photographing pages of the individual Dr. Seuss books then editing them in Photoshop.