Dr. Seuss Day - Hair and Dinner

Continuing on with Dr. Seuss Day from this previous post: Lunch & Teacher Treats.  The girls wanted Cindy Lou Who hair again (Bugs' class didn't dress up).  This year their hair was longer, but it is very thin and fine, especially Boo's.  The poor child was blessed with no hair just like her mama.  Since it was longer this year it turned out a little better, but Sis's hair was a bit too long on top for the same style we did last year, but I didn't have time to adjust it so she had to go with however it turned out.  I went wrong in two places this year: 1- I just rolled cardstock into a cylinder instead of a cone.  This saves a lot of time, but it doesn't turn out nearly as well.  Take the time to figure out how to roll & trim a cone that fits your daughter's hair.  2 - I didn't use hair products.  When I three cones in Sis's hair for Wacky Wednesday I did and boy did it hold!  Click on the link to see more about what I used and did.
With that being said this is what they looked like:

You can see that with paper rolled instead of in a cone the elastic didn't stay in place.  It leaned forward.  To make this style I used only the amount of hair on top of the head that I needed to cover the paper.  The rest of the hair was divided into two and braided.  I bobby-pinned the braids up and curled the ends.  Boo's hair is the better length for the cone, but Sis's is the better length for the braids.  Goes to show you that they didn't use real hair in the movie!

After school it was time to get ready for dinner.  Our menu: ham and green {deviled} eggs from Green Eggs and Ham, Who Hash (hash brown casserole/funeral potatoes) from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, Hat Jello from The Cat in the Hat, and Pink Ink to Drink from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.  

Ham:

 

Who Hash:

Green {Deviled} Eggs:

 Hat Jello:

Pink Ink Drink:

The Dinner:

The ham was just a spiral ham cooked as directed with some pineapples added.  The Who Hash is a hash brown casserole most commonly known as funeral potatoes.  I'll post my recipe at the end of this post for those who want it (I didn't have the crushed potato chips on top because I was too lazy in too much of a hurry to go downstairs and find some).  I actually assembled it the night before and put in the fridge.  After the ham was almost done I baked the Who Hash.  The Green {Deviled} Eggs are just deviled eggs with food coloring added.  I added a little blue and a little green food coloring (since the yolks are yellow).  The Jello was layered with Strawberry Jello, Whipping Cream, Strawberry Jello, Whipping Cream.  If I were to do it again would have done one more layer of Strawberry Jello.  It would look a little more like the Cat's hat.  I had some extra Jello the first time around (I made one small box) so I put it into a small container (or two) for the kids' future lunches.  When that was set up I did a layer of whip cream and started making the next layer of Jello.  For that layer I used ice cubes to partially set up the jello so it wasn't liquid pouring onto the whip cream.  To see how to do that check out this post.  I made one small box again, but didn't have enough so I had to add another small box.  I put it into the fridge to finish setting.  When it was ready I added the top layer of whip cream.  The Pink Ink was just crystal light ~ any pink drink will work.  You could get fancy or just use Koolaid or pink lemonade.  I found these cute cups to use too.  When you move them the picture changes.  Gotta love Target's dollar spot!

I also saw some Cat in the Hats made with an Oreo and gummy life savers on Pinterest (I didn't pin it so I can't give credit).  Well, I happened to have gummy life savers that I couldn't find at the time for the owl cake (oops), but found shortly after (they were downstairs in the food storage - imagine that).  I didn't like how the Oreo was so much bigger than the rest of the hat.  My solution: Mini Oreos.  

I put some white frosting left over from the owl cake in a ziploc back and snipped the corner.  I put a little frosting on half of the Oreo and topped with a gummy lifesaver, repeat and you have the hat from The Cat in the Hat!  I was able to make nine hats with one bag of gummy lifesavers until I ran out of red lifesavers.  I pulled out all the green ones for St. Patrick's Day (I think I will make leprechaun hats the same way, but with green icing ~ this is a light green icing from the owl cake and the dark green gummies):

Who Hash aka Funeral Potatoes

Ingredients:

1- 2lb bag hash browns

1 cube butter (or margarine)

2 cans cream of mushroom soup

minced onion to taste (or use fresh onion)

16 oz sour cream

1 1/2 - 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Crushed potato chips & additional cheese

In pan melt butter and add soup and onion.  When bubbly add sour cream and cheese.  Mix until melted.  Mix with hash browns in 9x13 pan.  Add chips and cheese on top.  Bake at 350 for 40 minutes.

Dr. Seuss Day ~ Lunch & Teacher Treats

Here is another day I go a little crazy.  The funniest thing is that I hardly own any Dr. Seuss books.  It wasn't until recently that I realized how much I loved him.  He has some amazing quotes out there.  One day soon I plan to do something with all those amazing quotes I've found.  I just have to figure out what!  But for now, here is what we did this year.

No pictures, but for breakfast we had green scrambled eggs.  Nothing else.  There were plans, but I had to style two girls' hair, make lunch, and drop Sis off at school early (she normally rides the bus) and this meant leaving almost 1/2 hour early and of course when planning out the day I forgot that little tidbit until the night before.  You don't need pictures anyway, most people know what they look like.

My adventure started the night before.  I was scrambling around until after 11:00 getting as much done as possible.  First I made some Yertle Turtles. I had pinned a recipe to make your own rolo turtles and have been wanting to make them ever since.  So what better time than for Dr. Seuss' own Yertle Turtles?  

You can click on the link above to read her instructions, but this is the basics:  Line a cookie sheet with pretzel snaps (the square pretzels - there is more pretzel to hold the melted chocolate), place one rolo on each pretzel (if you get them in the rolls you don't have to unwrap each rolo, but if you have kids to do it for you, does that really matter?), bake for about 4 minutes at 350 (they shouldn't be melted - just soft), place a pecan half gently on top (my daughter helped and I think we over squished some of them).  Let cool and then finish the cooling process in the fridge.  Tada, Yertle Turtles!  With those Yertle Turtles and Swedish fish I made these for the teachers:

I copied and pasted a Yertle Turtle picture.  Using a Dr. Seuss font I did the writing for both signs.  I designed it to be a bag topper (like I did here for the Smeeps), but decided I wanted to separate the treats.  I tied ribbon between the treats, cut out the squares into tags, punched a hole in them and tied them on with the ribbon.  The Fish tag is a little bit longer so that helped since I layered them.  I tweaked the tags a little bit for you so they should be easier to cut as tags and big enough to fit on top of a snack size baggie.  

You can download it here.

The other thing I made is Cat in the Hat hats.  During school one of the teachers I work with told me about this.  I had the ingredients so I gave it a try.  I must say hers turned out nicer than mine, but I didn't take as much time as I should have.  They still are cute (much cuter if you don't take close up pictures).

All it takes to make some hats are large marshmallows, double stuf Oreos, and red candy melts.  First you dip on side of the marshmallow in.

Let harden or put them in the fridge to speed up the drying time.  When dry dip the other end and place it on an Oreo (I guess the very first step is removing one side of the Oreo).  The black is the brim followed by white, red, white, red.  My tip for you is to use a small container to melt the chocolate in.  It works best if you can just dip it in as far up as you need to.  My container was too large so I used a spoon to help it along.  They weren't as precise or smooth as I would have liked, but they were just for my kids.

Having finished those items, boiling and dyeing eggs, and starting some of my jello I hit the sack.  In the morning while the kids ate their green scrambled eggs I was busy packing their lunch.  First the girls had One fish, Two fish, RED fish, BLUE fish sandwiches:

To make those I just dyed some tuna fish blue and red:

 

All of them had Fruit kabobs that looked like the hat of The Cat in The Hat:

To make these you just take banana slices and strawberry slices and layer them.  You could try to match the widths better, but I was just trying to get them done. I put the bottom of the strawberries as the top of the hats.

They all also had colored gold fish and jello from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and a boiled egg dyed green from Green Eggs and Ham.  I had Easter Egg dye in my cupboard from last year (yep, I really need to clean out that cupboard - now that I revealed that to the world I better get on it) that I used.  If you aren't a pack rat like myself you can use Kool-aid.  Mix on packet of green Kool-aid with 2/3 cup water in a small container.  And lo and behold you now have green dye! I learned this here.

I made the blue jello the night before.  In the morning I whipped up some whip cream and put on some red fish.  I looked all over (okay two stores then I ran out of time) for blue fish or sharks, but I couldn't find them.  So they only had the red fish.

Here is my boy's lunch.  His sandwich was Roast Beast (beef) from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas because he doesn't like tuna fish:

Oh, I forgot to mention I added the Oreo hats for dessert (I was raised with Jello being a side dish not a dessert and so are my kids).
Here is the post to the rest of our day: Hair styles and Dinner!

A Seussy Kind of Day

Since it is almost Dr. Suess' birthday and Read Across America day (March 2nd) I thought I should post what we did last year.
I had so many things to post (or so I thought, but a year later I don't remember).  I will post pictures of some of the things we did.
At school we dress as a Dr. Seuss character.  We aren't very original and use some common characters.  This year I might have to read a few more books, but for some reason Dr. Seuss is one that we don't have a lot of.
Boo was Cindy Lou Who:

My poor daughter (and myself) hardly has any hair so this hairstyle isn't the easiest, but with too much hair it may be hard too.  I rolled a piece of paper into a cone shape then lifted top section of her hair over it and put an elastic at the top (put it over the top of the cone too - it gives it a little more stability).  Leave enough hair at the top.  You are going to need to put in another elastic just a little way up and then curl it out in pieces.  The bottom half of the hair you split into two and braid it.  I also took some hair putty to separate out the bottom of the braid & curl up the pieces.
Bugs was thing two:

I just printed out a round sign saying Thing 2.  He wore all red and we used a colored spiking gel to dye his hair blue.

At home this was part of our dinner (not sure why it looks so yellow - doesn't look very appetizing, but it was!):

Green Eggs: just make some deviled eggs using your favorite recipe.  Mix some blue food coloring to the yolk and  you have green centers.
I also found these blue skies with white clouds.  I can't remember what book it is from nor were I found it (if you know leave me a comment):

To make these follow the instructions here (I loved them so much I used them for St. Patrick's day too.  I was able to use the left-over whipping cream). 
And for desert:

Yep, more green eggs.  A scoop of Lime Sherbet with whipping cream sprayed around it.


That sums up last year.  Guess I should figure out this year before it sneaks up like last time.