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St. Patrick's Day Misc
Contact_FullName: Stephanie Contact_Email: Wa_Sunshine@hotmail.com Area: St Patrick's Day Idea: This year I cut out tons of construction paper shamrocks in rainbow colors. The kids helped me glue them all together to make a rainbow to go over the front door way. I had pre-made a pot that said " we're more precious than gold" the kids wrote their names on yellow pieces of paper and glued them coming out of the pot at the end of the rainbow. It was adorable, parents loved it. It's April now and the rainbow is still up over the door because the parents love it so much. They're still commenting on it! Contact_FullName: jackie Contact_Email: jackierobar11@yahoo.com Area: Rainbows or St. Patrick's Day Idea: Using a rainbow picture as an example, have the students follow the pattern using fruit loops and string to make necklaces. The students are identifying each color as he/she strings it and it is an excellent fine motor activity as well. Throw a shamrock made from foam felt in the center and it makes a great St. Patrick's Day activity. Contact_FullName: Bonnie Contact_Email: Bonner7@sbcglobal.net Area: St. Patrick's Day Idea: To promote good behaviors, I cut out of tag board a big black pot, decorate it and write on it I was caught doing... in gold glitter. Then anytime a child is seen cleaning up after themselves, being nice to a friend, helping them, listening, following directions, ect. I cut a circle out of yellow construction paper and write on it what the child did, then I put gold glitter around the edge of it and staple it to the pot. Contact_FullName: Pateresa Contact_Email: dalynn34@msn.com Area: St. Patrick's day Idea: Every year we go to Leprechaun land! Everything is green and beautiful. We all dress in our green clothes. One child is our King Leprechaun and we have a queen Leprechaun. We learn about each color of the rainbow before we can get to this exciting place. Once we are there and discover the pot of gold we dance and sing. I have each child bring a food that is green (grapes, green beans, broccoli, Jell-O) We even have green milk. The kids have their Shamrock feast. We have so much fun! St. Patrick's day can be exciting. Contact_FullName: Brenda Contact_Email: Lillyladyb@aol.com Idea: I have all of the children bring in a rock before St. Patrick's Day. ( I get a few extras and bring them myself for the forgetful ones.) I tell them to bring one that is about the size of a slice of a bread. I tell them to bring it to school in zip lock bag with their name on it. On St. Patrick's Day each child paint's their rock green and adds glitter. Lot's of glitter on the top! (You know they love glitter!). This is our Blarney Stone. Children have told me they have kept their stones for many years and used them as paper weights, door stops etc. I use the baggie to send the rock back home in so the glitter doesn't get in their book bag. Contact_FullName: roxanne Contact_Email: rkemper@qis.net Idea: I run a small family day care every year my kids set a leprechaun trap a small shoe box that they decorate with shamrocks and rainbows then tip the box up with a stick so far we have caught the leprechauns coat and hat but no leprechaun on st Patrick's day I put a pot of gold in the trap [gold foil wrapped chocolate coins in a pot] We never catch the leprechaun but he always drops his pot of gold coins trying to get away. Contact_FullName: Susan Contact_Email: mkelly@rogers.nl.com Area: St. Patrick's Day-Activities Idea: We have a St. Patrick's Day Party. The children help make up invitations for their parents to join us for morning snack and some entertainment. The children all wear green and perform some songs that they have sung in circle times for ST. Patrick's Day. We are then joined by some musician friends of mine who perform some traditional Irish Music With fiddle and accordion music. The children and parents love it and usually everyone is up dancing before the session is over. We then share our snack of green cupcakes and juice (tea or coffee for the adults). The musicians also join us for snack. Contact_FullName: cathy Contact_Email: cathy_nolan@hotmail.com Area: St Patrick's Day Idea: leave bread out for about two nights until it is hard. bring it into class and use cookie cutters to make them into shamrock shapes make sure to put a hole in the middle of them. get the children to paint them whatever way they want. when they are dry hang them off some string and you have a St Patrick's day mobile. Contact_FullName: Jacquie Contact_Email: oenders@aol.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Idea: We read a story about how leprechaun's make shoes. If your really quiet you might hear the tapping sound that leprechaun's make while working on shoes. After a helper makes the tapping sound for you, you lead the children on a hunt for the leprechaun. A few coins to show a path and a door or window left open add to the effect. Lead the children back into an area that has little pots filled with gold coins hidden around the room. (little black pots can be purchased from Oriental Trading or use little Dixie cups!. Contact_FullName: kt Contact_Email: kkelleyjcu@hotmail.com Area: saint patrick's day Idea: using soufflé' cups or Styrofoam cups we gave each child a ball of model magic to press into the bottom. decorate a paper shamrock with glitter, etc then tape a pipe cleaner to the back. stick the pipe cleaner into to little "pot." the model magic dries fast around the pipe cleaner and holds up your own planted shamrock! Contact_FullName: Ms. Libby Contact_Email: mrslibby @aol.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Idea: Pot of Gold - I spray paint gravel rocks and hide them in the class. We then find the gold and glue it on a construction paper black pot with a rainbow. Enjoy! Contact_FullName: Valerie Contact_Email: MrsStrahd@aol.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Idea: Contact your local Irish dance school. Many would be quite capable to volunteer to do a short presentation of Irish music and dance. Contact_FullName: Melody Contact_Email: mrandmrst55@msn.com Area: St. Patricks Day Idea: We explain to the children that the leprechaun loves to leave clues that he has been here and his favorite color is green! One of our preschoolers suggested that we try to catch him. So we started brainstorming how we could catch a Leprechaun! It is amazing how some of our best ideas come from 3 or 4 year olds! We have done this now for three years! We bring in a rabbit cage and line with green paper. We have children go on a green hunt and put items into the cage. Dinosaurs for him to play with! Crayons in case he writes us a note! Play dough, cars to drive! So cute to hear the reasons the children put what they find in the cage! We paint pictures, have green play dough, somehow the snacks turn green! And of course we share our snacks with the leprechaun and each morning he leaves us some clue that he has been here! A small hat, jacket (Ken's clothes!) gold dust. Endless ideas! And of course at the end, the pot of gold! Have fun! Contact_FullName: Terry Contact_Email: Educa8rwn@cs.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Holiday Idea: I usually have my 1st graders hunt for a clover. After they collect one I place it on half of a strip of wide clear tape and fold over the other half of the tape to seal the clover. This allows the students to feel they will be lucky having a clover with them all day long. This also begins our creative writing assignment on lucky items, symbolism of the 3leaf clover, etc. This builds enthusiasm in the writing assignment. ;) Contact_FullName: Cathy Contact_Email: MaxieX@hotmail.com Area: St. Patrick's Day - Games Idea: Teacher reports she spied some leprechauns upon entering her classroom. Those jolly little fellows like playing games and left clues for the children to follow. Be creative; could be riddles written on shamrocks, or a plain shamrock trail leading to little black pots filled w/ a small sandwich bag of corn pops cereal - one pot for each student. A special low-sugar treat for your little Sherlock Shamrock's. I even like the idea from a previous poster about the tag board magnifying glasses covered w/ green saran wrap. :) Contact_FullName: Karen Contact_Email: karen@alittlecreativity.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Idea: This is a several day project. 1. Send a note home to the parents that they should make a "Leprechaun Trap" to catch any Leprechaun's that might come into the room the night before your holiday celebration. They send it back to school with the child. 2. Have the children put out the trap the night before. You go through your room taking things off the shelves and making it look a mess. 3. The next morning before the kids see the room you tell them that the Leprechaun's got very mad that you set out traps to try to catch them so they messed up the entire room. Make it part of your lesson plans to have the children put things back where they belong. Thank you Mr. Martin for this wonderful idea! Contact_FullName: eva Contact_Email: eva @cruz-aedo.com Area: St Patrick's Day Idea: Cut out shamrock shape out of finger-paint paper. Add drops of yellow and blue paint. Let the children finger-paint until colors become green. Add accordion arms and legs out of yellow construction paper. Add googley eyes. Make a hole at the top of the shamrock and tie a string through. Now you can hang up your shamrock friend. Contact_FullName: Stacey Contact_Email: stacey_g_7@yahoo.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Idea: I draw or photocopy many shamrocks on a piece of white paper and let the children finger-paint on it with the new green ketchup. 3-12-01Happy St. Patrick's Day Teachers
1-18-01Before the kids arrive to school, make a little mess in the room. For example in your circle time area you can sprinkle glitter, turn over a chair, and torn pieces of green paper. When the kids arrive tell them that a leprechaun visited the class. Tell the kids the leprechaun left treats some where in the school and they have to help find them. Have clues posted in different areas of the school and leave the treats in a special area. Read the different clues to the kids giving them a hint where the treats may be. Once the kids have guessed all the clues that will lead them to the treats. Our class normally spray paint rocks gold and have them in a pot and we have cookies and stickers for the big treat. The kids really get excited when they see the pot of gold. Each child should get a piece of gold to take home.
9-14-00St. Patrick's Day science Explain the myth about leprechauns hiding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Then fill a glass full of water and put it in the sun, or take a crystal and put it in the sun and talk about the order of the colors, and how water or crystal separate light into different colors because light has all the colors the same as black.
9-14-00Rainbow Swirls Talk about rainbows and leprechauns sometime in the week. Then tell the children you are going to make rainbow ice. Let the kids drop primary food coloring colors into the ice cube tray; showing them how colors combine to make new colors. Then freeze the ice and let the children look at them. Next, let the ice melt in some cooking oil making rainbow swirls that fall to the bottom, and explain water and oil don't mix.
ideaA great idea for St. Patrick's Day in the sensory table: add several bags of split peas (hard ones) to your water table to discover the color green! Add your bowls, spoons, pots, and pans to the fun of making split pea soup!
Date: 3-11-00To explore St. Patrick's day I put potato flakes (instant potatoes) in the sensory table with many green items (spoons, mini shovels, cars...) but on the last day of the team I add water and they get to experiment with mashed potatoes (could add green food coloring if you wish)
Date: 3-15-00Potato Leprechauns Cut the bottom off of a potato so that it will stand up on its own. Then cut the top of the potato out and hollow it out about one inch deep. Have the children paint the potatoes green and decorate with a face (beads, pipe cleaners, etc.) Fill the hollowed out top of the potato with soil and grass seeds. Water them. After they grow you will have a leprechaun with green grass hair.
Date: 3-15-00We have done this for several years now and the children love it. My birthday is on St. Pat's Day so I tell the children I know several leprechauns personally. My best friend is Sean. Since we are such good friends he likes to play jokes on my class. A few days before St. Pat's Day "Sean" will leave us notes. "I've been watching. I like the way ... was paying attention, etc. I'll have a surprise for you on St. Pat's Day." He even leaves us little chocolate money to estimate. On the 17th I use the bottom of my palm and my little finger to make green foot prints all around the room. When the children come in they, of course, notice green foot prints going across the t.v., the computer monitors, etc. "Well," I say, "just wait until I talk to that Sean!" The little rascal. They have fun looking for the prints. Hidden around the room are shamrocks with the ABC's printed on them. Sean leaves us a message on the marker board challenging us to find them. We do, saying the letter name, sound, and a word that starts with it. Then, at after recess, we come back to the room and there is a note from Sean saying he has hidden a surprise for us. (I back a large cake, the Wilton sheet cake that takes about 3 mixes. This year I used a chocolate one, tinted a yellow one green and a white one purple. I put them in the pan and then used a fork to swirl the colors. It turned out very pretty. The other teacher asks her parents to send in green drinks.) I use foot prints for my kids to follow. Outside our door the 5th graders have placed, "Go to the place where you draw pictures." Once there we have another message. We go to 4 places before finding our way back to the cafeteria. The other teachers leaves out shamrocks for her kids to follow. That way we don't get mixed up. Each child has a name on a footprint or a shamrock. Back at the cafeteria we find the goodies. Sean has also forgotten his bottle of magic leprechaun dust, green colored sugar. I tell the children if I sprinkle it on their tongues it will make them run like the wind. You should see them at recess running around. They'll come and stick out their tongues for more.
Date: 3-13-00Grow leprechaun hair! Let each child plant grass seed in a clear plastic cup. They can also drew a face on a small round piece of paper and glue to the front. We do this the week before st. pat.'s day and tell them that by st. pat.' s day their leprechaun's will be growing green hair!
Date: 3-11-00Shamrock Puppy: Have the children trace a shamrock out of heavy green paper and cut it out. Turn the shamrock so the stem is up. Have the students draw eyes with crayons or markers. Glue a red tongue at the bottom. Glue a small dog biscuit shaped liked a bone on the stem!
Date: 3-8-00Needed: old terry cloth towel lettuce seeds spray bottle for water shallow pan or tray sunny window Cut out the shape of a shamrock from the terry cloth. Dampen the cloth. Spread out on a shallow pan. Sprinkle lettuce seeds over shamrock. Gently pat seeds. Set in sunny window. Spray with water morning and evening. In 10 days you should have a green shamrock. Lettuce seedlings can be transplanted to yield eatable lettuce!
Date: 3-8-00The children love squishy bags. I fill Ziploc quart size food storage bags with inexpensive green hair gel and add St. Patty's Day confetti and gold glitter. Try to "burp" the bag to remove most of the air. I then insert the bag into another bag seal side down. "Burp" this bag as well. The children have a great sensory experience with no mess! It's very colorful too and can be adapted to other holidays or for the study of colors.
Date: 3-5-00Talk to children about the legend of leprechauns. Have children trace shamrock pattern onto green construction paper and cut out. Have them dictate to you how they would catch a leprechaun. Write on the shamrock. Have children decorate with green items, or put glue around edges and sprinkle glitter on them. Share children's ideas. Makes a cute bulletin board. Cut 1 inch strips of green and yellow construction paper. Children make chains using an AB pattern. Hang from the ceiling. Children trace shamrock, minus the stem, on green construction paper and cut out. Use black paper and cut out a hat. Glue on shamrock. Glue scrap of green on hat. Add white strips of paper for arms and legs. Draw on face. Hang from the ceiling among the green/yellow chains. Looks real festive.
Date: 3-2-00My idea is for the month of March. I use the following saying saying: "March" into a good book. I then have the students color shamrocks and write (in black marker) the title of their favorite book. I also have a large shamrock in the middle of the bulletin board with my favorite book and my name. This allows other students in the school to find the title of a good book. Most of the books that my students choose are AR books.
Date: 2-29-00St. Patrick's Day Windsocks - Use an Edy's Ice-Cream container (minus the lid). Cut out the bottom. Cover the container with light green paper. Cut out a dark green shamrock and glue it on the light green paper. Using a couple of different shades of green crepe paper, cut six of these to about 20 inches long. Glue these to the bottom of the container. Then evenly around the top part of the container put 4 hole punches. Cut 4 pieces of green yarn about 14 inches long and tie to each hole. Then tie the other ends together. This project was fun to do.
Date: 2-29-00Several weeks before St. Patrick's day, I begin telling the children that the leprechaun is watching their behavior. One day during nap time, I sprinkle gold or green glitter all over the room and next to their mats to show that the leprechaun visited. I also put gold items outside for the kids to find. I have also written a note from the leprechaun stating that he has lost his shoe and his bag of gold. For the shoe I spray paint it green with glitter. One year I hid the shoe up very high in a tree.
Date: 2-26-00Highlight your precious little ones in a sparkling display titled "We're More Precious Than Gold". Enlarge a leprechaun and mount near a large pot. Attach shamrocks to the pot. Have each child cut out a large gold construction paper coin and glue a photograph of himself on his coin. Next, have each child decorate his coin with glitter. Then mount each coin above the pot, along with the title.
Date: 2-26-00Give each child a shamrock with a note from a Leprechaun on it and a map. The note would tell them to use the map to find a gold piece in the room. They follow the map and find the gold piece. Have goodies in the pot. They can have a goodie when they put their gold piece in there. skill: visual discrimination
Date: 2-26-00Have leprechauns holding a sign with a certain number of shamrocks on it. Then have shamrocks with numbers written on them. Have the children match the shamrock to the leprechaun. For check: Have the number written on the back of the sign.
2-23-00Pots of Gold Paint miniature clay pots green. Fill the pots with gold wrapped chocolate coins and you have a pot of gold. Add a pretty gold bow if you like!
2-23-00Pot of "Corn Pops" gold Cut out a small black pot from construction paper. Glue Corn Pops cereal pieces at the top of the pot for the gold. You can also attach a white piece of paper on the base of the pot on which you can write. I like to ask the kids what they would like to find at the end of the rainbow. It makes a very cute bulletin board or door decoration.
2-23-00Two days before St. Pat's Day, I totally mess-up the classroom before the children arrive in the morning. I also stick shamrock stickers on the floor and walls. On St. Pat's Day, I hide gold spray-painted rocks and gold foil-wrapped coins on the play yard.
2-20-00When my son was in k-garten, on St. Pats Day while his class had their library time, several parents came into the classroom, overturned a few chairs, and generally made it look like a mischievous leprechauns had been in their room (without making too big of a mess) scattered magic dust (glitter) around the room and we hid gold chocolate coins all over, so when the kids came back they thought the leprechauns had paid them a visit, everyone got a treat bag and went on a treasure hunt for the coins. When all the coins had been found the children gathered in a circle and divided the coins up evenly. The teacher also had a poem about that the leprechauns left for the children but I don't remember it. The kids had a blast and learned a lesson about sharing.
2-16-00For St. Patrick's day, spray paint pinto beans gold. Before your children go out to the playground sprinkle the "gold" all around. The children have a great time hunting for the leprechaun's gold.
2-16-00fill your sensory table with bubbles and green food coloring, have the children mix it with their bubble wands.....then blow green bubbles.
Date: 2-7-00Find a leprechaun picture from a color book. Make enough copies so each of your students may have one. Have students color them. Take individual snapshots of each student. Cut student's faces out and tape them in place of the leprechaun's face. Display them outside your classroom so everyone can enjoy them!
Date: 1-25-00Those naughty leprechauns!! Make the water in your toilet green using green food coloring: Green Tinkle is always a hit!!
Date: 1-25-00Make name tags for the children that say O'Ginny or O'Willy, etc...
Date: 4-18-99For St.Patricks Day, I had the children paint a great big black pot. Then I cut out large cirlces and the children painted them yellow. One each one of them I asked the children what their golden thoughts were and I wrote it on their golden coins. I then stapled them on the black pot. It seemed like my pot was bigger than it could of been, so I had the children paint some shamrocks and I added them and it turned out really cute. Parents just love to read these things I do things like this quit often and they enjoy it. 4-21-98 Name: Jill E-Mail: juher@kiwi.dep.anl.gov For St. Patrick's Day I dye rice green with food coloring and alcohol. Then I spray paint lima beans gold and hide ten in the table and the children hunt for the gold. They really enjoy this and they have to search for the correct number of gold pieces. 3-18-98 Name: Yvonne E-Mail: ysturd@cyberback.com For St. Patrick's Day: Read "Leprechaun's Never Lie" (can't recall the author's name). Talk about all the places the leprechaun hid his gold. Then have students draw a picture of where their leprechaun hid his gold. Have students tell about their pictures. Write the following phrase on the picture: Jessica's leprechaun hid his gold under the rainbow. Make a cover titled, "Leprechaun, Leprechaun, Where is Your Gold? Bind and add book to the class library. 3-17-98 Name: Cheryl E-Mail: Tugboat63@aol.com My idea is that during rest time on St. Patricks day that silly ol' leprachaun makes a surprise visit. He usually leaves a small mess because he was looking for his pot of gold. He leaves shamrock cookies and foot prints. This year I purchased a small green hat and he will leave it behind! I have fun with it, oh and the children wear green of course. 3-8-98 Name: Julie E-Mail: BandJSouva@AOL.com We made leprecauns using: 1 glass baby food jar 1 green pom pom green construction paper- formed in cone shape for hat cut into pointy ears 2 googlie eyes green, white, orange and yellow (St. Patricks Day colors) sand OPTIONAL -curling ribbon ( green and white) or a feather to decorate the top of the hat -orange yarn for hair Fill baby jar with colored sand. Glue on eyes, pom pom for nose, ears and hair. Put cone shaped hat on with streamers coming out of the top. 3-6-98 Name: Greer E-Mail: chlittle@intrex.net Leprechaun Hat Paint a paper bowl green, add green glitter or shamrock confetti, attach a little buckle made of construction paper, then attach elastic. 2-28-98 Name: rebecca E-Mail: wheeler@vornet.com I have each child make a leprechaun trap at home. They bring in in the day before St. Patrick's Day. We set the traps up before the kids leave that day. In the morining I leave each child a note from the leprechaun and mess the room up. I also leave foot prints from a stencil I made out of tagboard. (Sometimes I dip use green paint for the foot prints or baby powder). 2-24-98 Daylene Sprouting Shamrocks Cut out a shamrock for each child using old terry cloth towels. Let each child dampen their shamrock and place it in a pie tin. Give them some alphalfa seeds and let the children sprinkle them on top of their shamrock. Place in a sunny area and watch them grow. Make sure you keep the seeds damp. Cha-cha-cha-Chia! 2-23-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16 You can cut out shamrock shapes and have the children punch holes all around the edge of the shape. Then with gold ribbon have the children lace through the holes. Can then have the children write (or teacher if young child) : Happy St. Patrick's Day to you. Love (childs' name)
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