St. Patrick's Day Week: Thursday!

St. Patrick's Day Week

Thursday!

Crafts:

• Rainbow Lei: Yarn, scissors, foam paper(rainbow colors), pencil, hole puncher, pony beads, tape, cardboard

1. Cut a length of yarn to hang loosely around your child's neck(make sure you cut it a little longer than you want it so you have room to tie the ends of the yarn together).
2. Make a flower pattern on the cardboard for a tracer and cut out.  Your child can make two if they want.  Cut out the tracer.
3. Have your child trace flower patterns on the foam paper.  Cut them out.
4. Punch a hole in the center of each flower.
5. Tie a knot at one end of the piece of yarn.  String 6 to 10 beads onto the yarn (this will be the part of the lei that touches the back of your child's neck).
6. Then alternate flowers and beads however your child's wants them.  If you have a hard time stringing the beads onto the yarn, wrap a small piece of tape around the end of the yarn to stiffen it.
7. Once you get the design your child wants and the yarn is almost full of flowers and beads, end just as you started,  with 6 to 10 beads.  Tie the end in a knot.  Then tie the two ends of the yarn together, and wear your lei with pride!

• Bottle Cap Clovers: 3 plastic bottle caps, 1 green chenille stem, tacky glue, green glitter, 1 photo of each child, low melt glue gun, 1 square of green felt, scissors

1. Cut each photograph the diameter of the inside of 1 cap.
2. Fill the inside of the cap with a thin layer of Tacky glue and press the picture in place to secure.  (set aside)
3. Cut three strips of green felt the same width of the side diameter of each cap.  Use the glue gun to secure the felt in place.
4. Glue each cap to each other with the photograph inside the top cap.
5. Use the glue-gun to secure a chenille stem on that flat back of each clover.
6. Place Tacky glue around the rim of each cap and smash the clover into green glitter to frame the picture.

• Heart Shamrock: Construction paper (green and another color), pencil, scissors, glue

1. Draw 3 hearts on a green piece of paper.  Cut them out.
2. Glue the hearts together and each tip on another piece of paper.
3. Make sure to draw a stem to complete it.

Activities:

• Rainbow Collage: Pictures from magazines and/or store ads(rainbow colors), glue, scissors, poster board

1. Cut out pictures.
2. Glue the pictures on a piece of poster board.

• Blow Painting: Food coloring(red, yellow, blue), paper, straw

1. In the middle of a piece of paper, put a drop of one of the colors.  Next to that, put a drop of another color.
2. Aim a straw at one of the drops. Blow through the straw to make one of the drops move.  Blow the drop so it runs into the other drop and the colors mix together.  What new color did your child make?
3. Repeat, blowing two different primary colors together on another sheet of paper to make a new color.  
4. All the colors in the world are made from the primary colors combined in different ways!

• Potato Heads: Potatoes, buttons, beads, sequins, pins, ribbons, scraps of felt, yarn, paper, cardboard tube or paper cup

1. There is nothing more Irish than a potato!
2. Wash the potato ahead of time.
3. Then, make a face on the potato using the items you gathered.
4. Display the finished potato head in a paper cup or a ring cut from a cardboard tube.

Snacks:

• Green filled Oreos
• More great snack ideas from preschool education website

Education:

Letters/Words

• Word of the day: Index card, pen

1. They
2. Make sentences with their new word.  Like: They went for a walk.  They sang songs together.

Numbers

• Printable St. Patrick's Day math worksheets

Other:

• Printable St. Patrick's Day Worksheets 

Music:

•  Did you ever see a lassie? 
  Did you ever see a lassie, a lassie, a lassie
  Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that?
  Go this way and that way and this way and that way
  Did you ever see a lassie go this way and that?

Rhyme:

I am thinking of a color that is the color of the sky. 

What color am I? (Blue).

I am thinking of a color that is the color of the sun. 

What color am I? (Yellow).

I am thinking of a color that is the color of grass. 

What color am I? (Green).

I am thinking of a color that is the color of milk. 

What color am I? (White).

I am thinking of a color that is the color of a lemon 

What color am I? (Yellow).

I am thinking of a color that is the color of a lime 

What color am I? (Green).

I am thinking of a color that is the color of an orange 

What color am I? (Orange). For older children use tangerine instead of orange.

Use your own ideas to finish this game.

Books:

• That's What Leprechauns Do by Eve Bunting
• A Fine St. Patrick's Day by Amber T. Kingston
• It's St. Patrick's Day, Dear Dragon by Margaret Hillert
• The Leprechaun Who Lost His Rainbow by Sean Callahan

St. Patrick's Day Week: Thursday!