I love a good celebration. I’ve always done something with the girls for St. Patrick’s day as far as arts and crafts, gearing up in all green, and last year we built our first leprechaun trap! (Teaghan STILL talks about this!)
Ideas for St. Patrick’s Day-
- Go on a hunt for a 4 leaf clover ☘️
- Create the color green! (Mix yellow and blue.. try with food coloring or paint!)
- Use bottom of water bottle or cut a green bell pepper in half to stamp a clover shape onto paper
- Free paint at an easel (if you don’t own one nail/tape a piece of paper to your fence) cut paper out in the shape of shamrock.
- Paint a rainbow! *ROYGBIV* create out of paper, use sidewalk chalk, markers
- Sing and dance to Jack Hartmann- Colors of the Rainbow 🌈
- Graph/sort/count/group Lucky Charms
- Create the color orange for a leprechaun’s hair/beard. Draw a simple face on a paper. Mix red and orange paint together, child can use a fork to spread paint.
- Read facts about Ireland and Saint Patrick
- Build a trap to “catch” the leprechaun!! Watch your child’s imagination run wild and see what they can create. We used a shoe box last year, colorful paper, markers, glue, popsicle sticks and cotton balls. Teaghan knew she caught one bc our trap was all messed up from when he “escaped”! 😳🤫
Green Taste Test!
Taste test! This was a HUGE hit last year with my girls and I was soo excited to try with my preschoolers this year. Womp. I gathered up a bunch of green foods.. this year won’t be as much because I’m definitely not going out to get certain items just for this (under the circumstances). It was unbelievable what they would actually try, just from how I presented it.. in cupcake liners, in a muffin tin! We graphed and voted our answers. We counted and talked about textures. We talked sour vs. sweet, veggies vs. fruit, healthy vs. not-so-much. Make everything a learning experience for your child. They seriously loved eating every single one.. okay maybe not the okra. BUT they’ve been asking to do this again since last year!
Pumped for Preschool! 