St. Patrick's Day Fun

St. Patrick's Day

Learning Activities

Pot of Gold Addition

Skills:  Addition, counting

Cut out Pot of gold shapes from black and yellow construction paper

Roll dice to make addition sentences.  Add the numbers together and glue the correct sum (gold pieces) in to the pot

Addie doing the Pot of Gold Addition!

Pot of Gold Numbers

Skills:  number recognition, counting

Just like above glue the pots of gold onto paper along with 3 different numbers.

Count out the corresponding number of pieces of gold and the pieces of gold onto the pot!

Tana gluing her pieces of gold onto the number 2  pot!

This is a  . . . .  flip book

Skills:  coloring, reading

Here is the link for this St. Patrick's Day Flip Book

Shamrock Scissor Practice

Skills:  Cutting, coloring, gluing

One Little Leprechaun

Skills:  Math - counting, number recognition

Here is the link to this Leprechaun counting  printable

This also includes a cute song!

Here is the link to all of these St. Patrick's Day Math and Literacy activities found below!

                                                      Pots of Gold Rhyming                                                    

Skills:  rhyming, short vowel sounds

 Leprechaun Sentence  Scramble  

Skills:high frequency words, writing, basic sentence structure

          Adding Shamrocks

                                                          Skills: writing numbers adding

Lucky Gold - Tens and Ones

Skills:  counting with tens, writing numbers

Lucky Shamrock Words!

Skills:  reading high frequency words, following directions

Here is the link for these fun reading Leprechaun themed games found below!

Pots of Gold Beginning Sounds

 Skills:  beginning sounds, letter writing

Pot of Gold Ending Sounds

Skills:  ending sounds

Pot of Gold Words

Skills:  making cvc words

Cut out pots of gold.  

Print off gold coins

Write word endings on the coins and paste them onto the pots of gold

Directions:  Make words that have the same word endings as on the pot of gold!

All About St. Patrick's Day Book

Here is link for this kid friendly, printable, informational book about St. Patrick's Day!  I read this simple 5 page books to the kiddos, so they had a better understanding of what St. Patrick's Day is all about.

Projects

Leprechaun Rainbow Hat

Trace a Leprechaun Hat onto green paper

Cut out a black strip from black construction paper and a yellow buckle from gold paper.  

Cut out strips of blue, green, yellow, orange and red paper

Directions:  Cut out the hat.

Glue on the black strip and yellow buckle.

Flip the hat over and glue on the rainbow strips.  (We glued our strips on the wrong way - as you can see, so make sure when you flip the hat over to start gluing on the right side of the hat!)

Paper Plate Leprechaun
Color a paper plate with a skin tone crayon
Cut a hat from green paper along with a black strip and a yellow buckle
Cut squares of orange tissue paper
Glue the orange squares of tissue paper around the edge of the paper plate
Glue on the hat and accessories to the hat
Draw a face on the leprechaun
Add more tissue paper squares for the beard and hair

Clothespin Pot of Gold
Cut a black pot of gold from craft foam
Cut gold coins from yellow craft foam
Directions:  Paint the clothes pins - red, orange, yellow, green and blue
Let the clothespins dry
Glue the gold coins onto the pot of gold
Stick craft foam letters onto the pot to spell each name.
Clip on the painted clothespins

Muffin Paper Shamrock
These were so easy to make.  Here are the directions!
We used watercolor paint instead food coloring!

Shamrock Paper Plate Hats

Draw a shamrock onto a paper plate

Color or paint both sides of the paper plate

Cut out the middle of the plate and around the shamrock

Rainbow Chain Pot of Gold!
Here is the link where I found this cute Rainbow Chain project 
Cut out a pot of gold from black paper
Cut out 7 gold coins for each pot of gold
Glue the coins to the top of the pot
Cut a black strip of paper and tape it in a loop to the back of the pot
Cut strips from - red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple paper 
Loop the purple strip through the black handle of the pot of gold and staple
Continue with the blue strip, then green . . .  until finished

Winter!

Winter

Learning Activities
Winter Number Order Fun
Skills: Math - number recognition, number order, writing numbers
Here is the link to Winter Number Order Fun

Addie putting the numbers in order

Number Fill-In the Blank Activity

Addie's completed activity- I laminated the sheets, so we can reuse them!

Mitten Number Match

Skills:  Math - counting, number recognition, matching

Addie did this activity last winter, but it was the first time for Tana!  

Here is the link to this great number matching activity!

Penguin Splash Game

Addie and I did this fun number game last year! 

Here is the link to this number recognition counting game

Snowman Glyph

Skills:  Following directions, writing, coloring pasting

Only Tana and Addie were doing this project, so we didn't do all of the activities included with this activity.

Here is the link to this Snowman Glyph

Snowball Fight Math Game

Skills:  Math - counting, 

This math game focused on counting.  Here is the link to this Snowball Fight Counting Game.

Ice-Fishing for Letters!

Skills:  letter recognition

I've had this activity for many years, I modified it to fit in with our winter theme by having Tana go ice fishing. I wrote each upper and lowercase letter on old tin-can lids.  Then we used a magnetic fishing pole to catch the letters!  

Projects

Hooray for Snow!

Cut out a snowman shape from white paper and a snowbank

Cut out an orange nose, a scarf and three buttons

Glue the pieces to the snowman and draw on a mouth with black marker

Glue the snowbank and snowman to a piece of construction paper

Use pipe cleaners to make arms and glue the arms to the snowman

Use chalk to make snowflakes

Styrofoam Snowman Heads!

Push black push-pins into a Styrofoam ball

Cut an orange pipe cleaner for a nose and push into the Styrofoam ball

Make a loop with a silver pipe cleaner and push into the top to make a hanger

Tissue Paper Mitten

Draw a mitten shape onto white paper

Cut tissue paper into squares

Glue the squares onto the mitten.  Cut out the mitten

To make the marbled paper:

squeeze white shaving cream into a pan and spread it out, add a few drops of blue food coloring into the shaving cream and swirl it around.

Press white paper onto the shaving cream mixture and scrape off the excess. Let it dry

Glue the mitten onto the marbled paper

Circular Snowman!

I traced three different sized circles onto white paper, a scarf, arms and carrot nose onto colored paper.

Directions:  Cut out the circles, arms, scarf and nose.  

Glue all the pieces onto a 5x7 piece of construction paper

Draw on eyes and a mouth.

Tin Can Snowman

Paint 3 different sized tin cans white - let dry

Glue on buttons for the face and buttons down the front.  

Add a ribbon scarf

Cut out 2 identical circles from craft foam and glue 4 corks to the centers of the circles.

Glue the foam/cork hat to the top of the snowman

Melted Snowman

Cut out a black hat, sun and nose

Type and print the following poem

I made a little snowman

with a little hat.

The sun came out and 

melted him and now my

snowman is FLAT!

Directions:  Rip a snowman face from white paper

Glue the face to a piece of construction paper.

Glue on the hat and nose and draw on the eyes and mouth

Glue the sun to the top corner

Glue the poem to the bottom corner

Framed Snowflake Sun Catcher

Cut a frame out of black construction paper

Cut a snowflake out of black paper

Cut shades of blue tissue paper into squares

Directions:  Place the frame on a piece of Contact paper

Place the snowflake in the middle of the frame

Cover with the tissue paper squares

Seal the other side with Contact paper

Cold Hands Warm Hearts

Paint hands and press onto paper

Draw a mitten shape around each hand and add a "cuff" to the mittens in a different color

Cut out a heart shape and glue the mittens in the center

Write - Cold hands Warm Hearts  on the heart

Penguins on Ice

Paint hand black and press onto white paper

Dip a Q-tip into white paint and make falling snow on colored construction paper

When dry, glue on a square of aluminum foil

Glue a white circle onto the hand and add an orange construction paper beak and googly eyes

Cut the penguin hand out and glue it to the paper.