Are you a fan of tongue twisting trickery and Seuss related silliness? Fox in Socks is a fun read aloud for kids and adults alike. The tongue twisting trickster is a classic character for a reason! Can you beat the Fox at his own game?
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Tongue Twisters – Have kids take turns reading a page out of the book. See who can say them the fastest without making any mistakes! Practicing tongue twisters may seem like silly fun, but it can also help kids to work on their pronunciation and phonemic awareness. You could also try the familiar tongue twisters “She sells seashells by the seashore” or “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?”.
Pig Bands – Using empty and clean egg cartons, cut the egg cups apart and paint them pink. Using a hole punch and string, make them into pig noses that kids can wear around their heads. Using musical instruments you have around the house or instruments made from household objects, have a pig band parade around the house. Lead the way with your broom like Bim and Ben!
Make chores fun with the Fox in Socks!
Sorting our socks
Sock Sort – Turn a mundane chore into a game! Toss all of the clean socks into a pile and have everyone find matching pairs of socks. See who can match the most socks, the fastest!
Lacing Socks – Cut out a sock shape and use a hole punch to punch holes around the edge of the shape about an inch apart. Have kids use yarn or string to lace around the edge of the sock.
Sock Spelling – This one requires a bit of prep work but it will work great as a quiet box activity or a center in a classroom. Cut out 54 sock shapes, or draw sock shapes on 54 paper squares or cards, and write each letter of the alphabet on two socks a piece. Give kids spelling words or sight words and have them sort through the socks in order to spell the word. You could also use these to practice spelling names, or to match capital and lower case letters.
Do you choose to chew goo too?
Chew Blue Goo – Like the Goo-Goose in the book, let kids chew on blue goo in the form of blue taffy, blue or blueberry fruit leather! You could also use blue juice (Kool-Aid or a sports drink) to mimic the “lake water” that Luke Luck licks!
Fox in Socks
Were you able to get through the story without getting tripped up? Do you have another fun way to get the whole family involved in chores like laundry? Let me know in the comments!
How adorable! What a great fun and frugal way to learn! Thank you!
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
Mixing tongue twisters with rhyming (essential literacy skill) sounds so fun! Thanks for these ideas.
Thank you! I loved learning that tongue twisters could be a helpful tool when I was studying for my degree. All those hours repeating tongue twisters actually helps!
This is awesome! And perfect for incorporating in our bilingual book collection
Thank you! I hope you have fun with it!
My mom would have killed to have you around when we were kids. Great ideas, again! I’m wondering how I can incorporate some of these games for my 2 year old… maybe to help her learn how to take her socks off! haha
Haha, thank you! My daughter is just under two and now that she knows how to take her socks off, she does it all the time – so be careful! She likes helping to find the matching socks, and she loves marching around and being part of a band!
I love Dr Suess, these projects look like so much fun to play with my little man!
I hope he has fun with them!
This book is one of our absolute faves!
Ours too! Whether I like it or not, haha.
I do love how you do these posts! It’s so neat. I wish I had something like this to read when my kid was younger to do all the fun activities! =)
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Thank you! I appreciate it!
My kids once requested this book on a night I was particularly tired. It did not go well! LOL!!
Haha. I have a hard time with it when she asks for it after long days. Luckily she doesn’t know yet when I’ve messed up the words!
We love Dr. Seuss! Fox in Socks is great and my son cracks up whenever I get tongue tied. I love the activities that you have that go along with the story!
Thank you! Half the fun of this one is getting tongue tied!
I’ve never though before to coordinate activities with a book’s story! I’m intrigued! Such great ideas!!
Thank you! I think making the books come alive for kids makes it resonate with them even more!
I love all the fun activities you do with these books – gives me such great ideas of things to do with my daughter to make reading even more fun! 🙂
Thank you! I hope you both have fun doing them!
I love this picture book. I’m particularly a fan of the sock sort activity since that’s my least favorite part of folding laundry!
Haha, mine too! Especially when one of each pair is missing!
This is such a clever idea. This would be perfect for my nephew. Love Dr. Seuss’s books.
Thank you! I hope he enjoys it!
This was one of my favorite books to read when the kids were little. Love the activities that you have to go with it!
Thank you! It was one of my favorites too!
LOVE Dr Suess! i’m building a collection for my son
That’s an awesome collection to start!
We love Dr. Seuss in our family! Great rhythm and I love to read it aloud.
Me too! I love books that flow well.
This was my absolute favorite book to read to my kids! Where were you a few years ago lol This is genius.
Haha. I’m sorry! It’s a favorite here too!
I think you just found a way to get my kids to enjoy helping with the laundry. I just happen to have two loads that they can start with tonight. 🙂
Haha. What’s the Mary Poppins quote? “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun!” I hope they can have fun with it!
My kids love this book!! I’m slowly getting better at reading it 😉
Haha. It gets easier the more times you do it!
I love the idea of using it to make chores fun! haha
Haha. Sorting socks can be the must frustrating part, so I figured why not try to make it fun??
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