St. Patrick's Day Crafting

Maddie and I have had fun with some St. Patrick's Day crafts and activities so I thought I'd share!

She loved this one!

We got out the finger paints and I would paint her hand in each color.

Then, she'd make prints in the shape of a rainbow.

I cut out some pots and we cut out gold circles together.

She glued all of them on at the end.

It's such a colorful (and big!) decoration for our house. :)

Since we had the finger paints out, I showed her how to make shamrock thumb prints.

She added stems.

Use your imagination. :)

The following activities are all from HERE.

This was a cute book that has a fun little twist at the end.

It uses a lot of sight words that she knows so it was fun for her to read to me!

She colored this in and then added a yellow dot stamp marker to count 12 coins.

And finally, we did a phonics activity with the sounds /sh/ and /s/.

We had to finely tune our ears so that they were sensitive enough to hear the sound differences. :)

It's hard to see, but this paper is folded in half and she sorted/glued the pictures on the correct side.

She did so well with this and really didn't need me too much!

We have some more ideas but have yet to get to them. St. Patrick's Day falls on a preschool day and she is so excited! Nana even bought her a special green shirt! :)

Happy {Almost} St. Patrick's Day!

It's almost St. Patrick's Day and Maddie and I have had fun learning about the holiday (lots and lots of books, thanks to the library and Nana's generosity!).

I made her a new sensory tub using white and green rice. I hid green pompons, green pebbles, green buttons, tiny green pears, green erasers...
You get the point.
I also gave her some little green cups (aka: shot glasses that were at the dollar store) to dig, pour and scoop.
This, as always, has been a HUGE hit.

I picked up some green plastic coins at Big Lots (a store that I always forget about but really has some cool little treasures!). I hid them throughout the family room and Maddie had to find the "leprechaun gold."
Very popular. In fact, after hiding the gold countless times, it was declared that the leprechaun had left the building and took all the gold with him.
After all, this leprechaun can only hide the gold so many times before one loses it's mind.

You may look at this and think, "Good grief. How boring, messy and pointless."
Right?
Because, that's what I (initially) thought.
However.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Give a child a dropper (purchased from the local teacher supply store for a quarter), some small glasses filled with water and a bottle of food coloring and you have an hour-long color-creating, imagination-evoking adventure.

Seriously, she went at this long enough for me to play along with her, fold a load of laundry, unload the dishwasher... Ect.
She transferred the water, mixed water with food coloring, stirred, made yummy green "soups" and cured her dolly's sickness with green medicine.

I'd picked up this frame months ago (with Christmas intentions) but brought it out so that she could decorate it with shamrocks (she loooooooves shamrocks).
Initially I just put green paint in the tray, but she requested pink and yellow as well.

She worked hard on this and it turned out... cute. Cute in a funky, half-painted, showered in shamrocks kind of way cute.

But, the greatest part of our celebration for St. Patrick's Day?
Leprechaun lemonade.
Hands down.

Squeeze a drop of green food coloring into a glass of lemonade (or, watered down lemonade, in Maddie's case). Set the toddler to stirring and watch in amazement as regular old lemonade becomes leprechaun lemonade!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!