Some of the things the Shawnee Mission high schools have done:

--The North High School Repertory Theater group has two 30 minute skits adapted from children's books that they take to elementary schools
--Read Dr. Seuss books in Spanish
--High school football players go to feeder elementary schools to read
--High school Spanish students go to feeder schools to read to their Spanish classes
--"What's Your Favorite Book" display
--Amnesty on fines
--Schedule book talks by JCPL librarians
--Collecting used books for book sale/give to charity
--Bookmarks
--Childhood favorites from staff
--Lunch menu for March 3 is "Dr. Seuss" names

If you have a nursing home, daycare, or other community facility nearby,
some of the students might schedule a time to read Dr. Seuss stories to
them. He also has a Dr. Seuss Songbook- music dept. might help here.
Read The Lorax, for instance and discuss environmental
issues from Lorax/Onceler points of view...but my favorite is Gerald
McBoing, Boing...issue of labeling and society's view on someone who is
different.

If you want it to be a whole school activity...
you might do a survey of some of the books he's written, make a poster
for each of his stories from the top 5/10 and have each grade level
vote during the week and see which one is "The People's Choice".
If there is the possibility that you could get several staff members to
participate, they might take turns reading one of his shorter primary
books (Green Eggs/Ham) over the PA and see if they can be identified...

Maybe you could ask the high school students for ideas. Then they will buy into it.
I am the librarian at our K-1 attendance and I have the high school students from the speech and drama classes come to our library to read Dr. Seuss books to our students. I usually make the books available to the teachers ahead of time so the students can read over and select the book(s) they would like to read. Some of them wear Dr. Seuss shirts if they have them and I have the Cat in the Hat hats available for them to wear if they wish to do so. They often tell the children which of his books is their favorite book and why.

One science teacher had his mom, dad and wife come in and did a choral reading of Horton Hears the Who.. it was great! We have a ten minute break each morning and we served cupcakes-- White frosting with red sprinkles... (your KAYS or National Honor Society or STUCO could help furnish the cupcakes.)
Last year... the KAYS sponsored a paper airplane contest assembly. We had three categories..
1. Most Creatively Decorated
2. Flying the longest distance
3. Most original design-- (and had to be able to fly)
You could add other categories.
I brought books on making paper airplanes from the Elem/jh school library three
weeks before the contest.

The Cooks have agreed to serve cake March 2.. (birthday cake.. or cupcakes)
In previous years, the KAYS came up with activities to go with a Seuss books
and visited grade school classrooms, read books and did a fun activity.

We do a paperback book exchange. I will begin advertising this week, inviting students to bring their
paperback books (in good condition) the the book exchange box. They
will receive one ticket for each book they bring. On the day/evening of
the book exchange all the books will be on display and students will be
able to pick one book to keep for each ticket they have collected. At the
middle school level, we will most likely have a family night where
everyone can come and participate.
At the high school level, it might be easier to have an exchange table
going on during the week, using the honor system to allow students to
bring a book, take a book.

We have a Family Read Night in our small school during that week. We encourage the High School Students to do skits, storytelling, and help families with more children than they have adults to read to the children. A few girls had a little daycare set up in the kindergarten room for babies so that the parents could read to their other children. The FBLA students provide the cookies. It was not mandatory but the ones that did participate had a great time.

We send our Basketball and Football players, Cheerleaders in uniform out to the elementary schools to read to the little ones. Big hit!

We brought in a big pile of Dr. Seuss books and let the students read
them in small groups--it was like visiting old friends. We brought Dr.
Seuss books and other children's lit classics they would be familiar
with. They loved it! We've also had guest readers (community people,
some of their old grade school teachers) reading children's books aloud
to classes.

Seuss Political Cartoons
Philip Nel's new book, "Dr. Seuss: American Icon" has a wonderful chapter on
his political cartoons during World War II.

We have a 40 minute class that is strictly devoted to reading for our
junior/senior students every day. Last year, for the last 15 minutes of class,
one day during Read Across America Week, we had the students come to our gym
and served them cake, drinks, and bookmarks. The cake was frosted white by our
lunchroom cooks and I decorated each one with a giant outline of the cat's
hat and red sprinkles. With this age group, it is hard to impress them, but
they seemed to enjoy getting out of class for a few minutes and eating!

I take a group of high school students over to the elementary and we do 3
hours of reading and games. It's always a fun time for everyone.
Pin the Green Eggs on Ham
Seuss Characters Race
Book Bowl (like Scholars' Bowl only with Children's Literature)
Read Aloud
Horton Hatches an Egg Readers' Theater
Make Book Marks
Poetry Theater (participation theater)

The Butter Battle Book was written as a statement against war. Could
you do anything on that?

Here are some things that we have done to celebrate at my high school over
the past few years. One year I worked with all the English teachers. Each one
chose a different Dr Seuss title and decorated their door. We really got
some great doors. The next year I opened it up to all teachers but the response
was small.
Another year, elem. students in walking distance to our hs came over to the
library the day before. My lib aides and members of Future Teachers club read
to them. I had purchased Cat in the Hat balloons that decorated the library and
then each class took one back with them. Very successful activity.

We usually have the hs students wear pjs or silly hats. Hats are not
allowed here so my students enjoy that. Sometimes we all wear something red.

One yr, districtwide, we ordered tshirts for the staff to wear using the NEA
approved logo. Very few ordered but then after the fact, they wanted one! One of the easiest and most used ideas is to have the high school students read to the elementary students. Another idea that we did was to have a tongue twister contest. Use the two Dr. Seuss books Oh Say Can You Say and Fox in Socks. Have them try to read parts of the book out loud in front of other people. Have two judges and then let the crowd vote by round of applause for the winner. The winner could receive a "cat in the hat hat" or a birthday cake. Everyone else who did it could receive a cupcake.

I have 500 freshman in my building. I work with the drama teacher and have several of her students work up a short cutting from a Dr. Seuss book. The kids then read their cutting over the intercom at the conclusion of the reading of the daily bulletin. Kids always enjoy hearing the cutting and then I have a large poster in the library where they can list their favorite Dr. Seuss book.
It has worked very well for me for 4 years. I also have a book drive during the week of Read Across America where the kids can donate books that they no longer want. I have collection boxes in the English classrooms and also in the library. I place a book plate in the front of each book which reads "This book was donated by a student at Manhattan High School East Campus" and these books are then given to the Emergency Shelter.