Samples of our St. Patrick's Day unit at our KidsSoup Member Site:
NEW! March 08 Color Green Unit
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NEW! Color Green Unit
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Leprechaun Paper Craft Puppet |
A Leprechaun all Dressed in Green
Emergent Reader
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Green Interactive Reading |
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Green
Tracing and Writing
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Color Green
Folder Game |
St. Patrick's Day
Coloring Page
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Letter S recognition
Shamrock Maze
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St. Patrick's Day
Activities and Rhymes |
Shamrock
Counting Activity
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Shamrock
Tracing |
Shamrock
Sequencing |
St. Patrick's Day
Pre-writing Activity
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Pot of Gold
1 more/ 1 less
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Shamrock Wand
St. Patrick's Day Craft
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St. Patrick's Day
Emergent Reader
Booklet |
Rainbow Hat
Leprechaun Craft |
If I found a pot of gold..
Writing Prompt Booklet
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Leprechaun Craft
Objectives: Shapes
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"One More" ,
"One Less", "Same" Worksheet and Activities
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Leprechaun Math Concept
Board Game |
Leprechaun
Coloring Page |
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Free St. Patrick's Day Crafts and Activities
St. Patrick’s Day Tradition - There are many traditions and activities that help kids celebrate the life of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland the emerald island. With your children locate Ireland on a map and do some research about the history of St. Patrick’s Day, the shamrock, the Blarney Stone and where that leprechaun came from. St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated world-wide with people dancing and singing, watching St. Patrick’s Day parades, eating green food, wearing green clothes (and pinching those who aren’t wearing green!).
Have fun with your children celebrating St. Patrick's Day and have a leprechaun visit your classroom or your house. Leprechauns are little Irish fairies, and they are thought to be shoemakers. The Irish say that if a leprechaun is caught by a human, he will reveal where he hides his pot of gold. It is believed that they bury their gold in secret places only Leprechauns can reach, or that the pot of gold is hidden at the end of the rainbow.
The leprechaun visit - The night before St. Patrick’s Day do some harmless pranks and mess up the family room (or classroom) after your children are in bed. Think of as many silly things as you can that your children will notice in the morning. Leave little gold coins or gold nuggets (beans sprayed golden) lying around. Hide a scroll (letter from the leprechaun) for your children to find. Read the letter together and tell your children about the mischievous leprechauns and their pot of gold.
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Have children search for the gold coins or nuggets that the leprechaun left behind and put them in a bowl. Ask the children to estimate the number of gold coins there are in the pot. Count the coins with the children, taking the opportunity to introduce and teach the math concepts “same,” “one more,” and “one less.” |
After cleaning up after the leprechaun, have children write a letter to the leprechaun asking him about his life and to please clean up next time he plays in your house. Discuss how you could catch a leprechaun and make a leprechaun trap together. Use items around the house like a shoebox, a clean can, paper rolls, strings, sandwich bags, etc. Be creative and have fun. Don’t forget to decorate the trap and to add bait.
Scavenger Hunt - Before your children return from school (or the next morning), close the trap and place inside it a piece of a rainbow and shamrock with a clue from the leprechaun. Print other clues onto the other pieces of the rainbow and hide them in the room. After following each clue, your children will find some of the leprechaun’s “pot of gold” - bag of chocolate foil-covered coins!
If you are lucky enough to capture a leprechaun, don’t take your eyes off him or he will disappear. Happy leprechaun hunting....
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Clover everywhere - Shamrocks are three-leaved clovers. if by chance you find a four-leaved clover you thought to be lucky!
Shamrock Finger Painting:
Cut a piece of paper into a shamrock shape.Put a squirt of yellow finger paint and a squirt of blue finger paint on each child's paper. Let the children experience making the color green.
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St. Patrick's Day Crafts |
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Shimmering Shamrocks
Cut shamrock shape out of green craft paper and have the children put glue around the edges and sprinkle with salt or sugar.
Shamrock Collage:
Glue three small paper plates together to form a shamrock shape. Have children add different green medias (dried split peas, green maccaroni, tissue paper, green paper scraps, yarn, etc.)
Green Vegetable Printing
Assortment of green vegetables such as green peppers, celery, cucumbers, etc. Wash and cut vegetable and cut in half. Provide green paint and let children have fun printing.
Coffee Filter Shamrocks
Cut shamrock shape out of coffee filters. Mix yellow paint and water and place mixture in a small container. Do the same for blue. Let the children use eyedroppers or brushes to drip colors on the filter shape. The colors will run together and to make green. This makes beautiful shamrocks decoration.
