Our students created this rainbow using their hands. The bottom is hard to see but there are two purple hands on the blue part. -We did some felt activities using this Five Little Shamrock poem freebie found here. In the printable is five shamrocks if you aren't able to make these felt shamrocks. - Rainbow craft- great fine motor activity to work on color sorting with Fruit Loops. Use cotton balls for the clouds. - St. Patrick's Day Hats- use construction paper to create the circle for the hat. Adjust according to the child's head size. Let them decorate with foam shamrocks & stickers. -Finding Gold Game- I used little cauldrons that I found at Rite Aid around Halloween & gold coins from the Dollar Tree. I had the class close their eyes while I sprinkled gold coins all around the room. The students had to find the coins, come back to Circle and then we counted each students pot of gold. They loved it! -Four Leaf Clover Doilies: Students used foam rollers to paint over heart doilies. I cut out their prints and taped them together to create these large four leaf clovers. It didn't come out exactly how I was expecting but it still looked cute. Next time I'm going to try to use smaller heart doilies or larger paper. - Pot O'Gold- Made with construction paper, foam glitter shamrock from Dollar Tree & glitter onto the gold. -One Printable of Number Shamrocks Numbers 0-100= Six Activities: -Linking Shamrocks- Have students identify number, then add that number of links to it. Create by printing, laminating & hole punching a hole into the corner. - Matching Numbers- Students will find matching number and place them next to each other or if hole punched, they can connect them with a link. -Practice Writing Numbers-When laminated, it becomes a dry erase board. Have students use one shamrock number as a visual, then they use a blank laminated shamrock to write or trace the number onto. -Clothes Pin Number Matching-Write numbers onto clothes pins. Students will need to find matching numbers and attach clothes pin to the shamrock. Great activity to work on fine motor skills! -Order Numbers- Students will place shamrocks into order according to number. If students are good at numbers 1-10, start them doing numbers 10-20. Also, could work on counting by 10's. -Find Missing Number- Place shamrocks out in a order but leave one or two numbers out. Students will need to find the missing shamrock and put it into the line of numbers. -Number Puzzles: Print & laminate. Students will match the numbers or dots. -One Printable of Letter Shamrocks=Multiple Activities: You can have them link the shamrock letters together according to capital:capital, lower case:lower case or lower case: capital. Students can place them next to them instead of linking together. Practice writing letters Match letters using clothes pins. Find the missing Letters or have them put the letters in order. -Letter Puzzles- Similar to the number shamrock puzzles but not photographed - Shamrock Shape Puzzles - similar to the number shamrock puzzles but not photographed. Emergent Reader Book: I See St. Patrick's Day made in back and white and in color Emergent reader books for counting clovers, four leaf clovers or identifying colors of clovers. Also these books are made in color on my TPT site. -Outside/Bulletin Board Decorations: We took all our crafts and taped them outside our classrooms. We loved our display & the class took photos in front of it! - St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bins: -Bin 1: I used cauldrons from Rite Aide that I found around Halloween time. I used green stones in the vase aisle and coins from The Dollar Tree. Students played with them by filling and dumping their 'pots of gold'. -Bin 2: Filled with dried split peas, green&yellow pom poms, a few gold coins, some foam shamrocks from the Dollar Tree & two cauldrons for filling. -Pot of Gold Puzzle: This work of art was created by one of the paraprofessionals in the class. She cut this cauldron out and created it into puzzle pieces. She had the students help her put it together. Then she used some double sided tape to tape some gold coins for our display. -Parade: Some of the other teachers decorated our little buggies and I thought it was too cute not to take a photo of! All the preschool classes paraded around the school with scarves, musical instruments in wagons, buggies, & walking while wearing green. All the other grades sat in front of their rooms and cheered us on as we walked around! It was a lot of fun for everyone :) Thank you so much for reading my blog. Hope you enjoy and get some ideas to use at home or school!
You may also like these Spring Activities- Emergent Reader Book "I See Spring" and to do the same shamrock letter & number activities with the links & clothes pins but with flowers, go here for flower letters, numbers, letter puzzles.
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