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*Leprechaun Craft Project
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with your preschooler with this fun leprechaun craft. This craft is easy to assemble and uses common craft materials found at your local craft store.
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Marble Painting ShamrocksAll you need for this great St. Patrick's Day activity is a box or container, a few marbles, some paint, and a paper shamrock. Place the paper shamrock in the box and add a few drops of paint in the corner of the container with the marbles. Have the student slowly move the box around to manipulate the marbles to paint their shamrock.
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Shamrock Craft
Cut a paper tube in small circles, manipulate to form a heart shape. Paint and glue together to create a shamrock.
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*Decorate the housekeeping space for St. Patrick's Day
Add a box of St. Patrick's Day Decorations and let the Children decorate their own space.
Our reader Laurie P. of Pitter Patter Dayhome added several St. Patrick's Day inspired
dress up items to her Dramatic Play Space. |
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Pot of Gold PlayAdd Cauldrons and pretend "Gold" to your space for your Leprechauns to find. |
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*Green Dress-Up
Dress from head to toe in green! Set out a variety of green dress up items for your students to dress up in.
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Gold Dress-UpPreschoolers love all things gold! Use this opportunity to break out fun gold costumes and accessories for preschoolers to enjoy.
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*Build Coin Towers
Building towers the St. Patrick's Day way by using gold coins or pennies. This exciting activity is also great for building small motor, engagement and persistence.
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Invitation to Build ShamrocksSet out green felt hearts and green pipe cleaner stems along with examples of real photo images of shamrocks. Encourage children to build shamrocks from the materials provided.
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*First Sounds Clip CardsPractice phonics with this hands-on activity!
This activity is easy to set up: print the desired cards, cut, laminate (optional for durability), and place on a tray with some clothes pins. This activity is included in our St. Patrick's Day Activity Pack |
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*Shamrock and Gold Upper/Lower case
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*What do you spy that's green?
Play I Spy with a St. Patrick's Day twist! Spot the items around the room that are green!
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Letter Treasures
Children can form the letter their name begins with using play dough, then fill the letters with "silver nuggets" (aluminum foil)
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Green Cloud Dough WritingMake some green cloud dough for preschoolers to practice drawing shamrocks, other shapes and writing letters.
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*St. Patrick's Day Patterning and SortingSupport math skills with this hands-on patterning activity.
This activity is easy to set up! Simply print and set out for play or transform into a file folder activity. **Optional: Laminate the mat and pieces for durability and use over and over! You could also set this out as a cut and paste activity. This printable activity is included in the PKPF St. Patrick's Day Activity Pack |
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*St. Patrick's Day Counting Cards Freebie
Pair these free number cards with your favorite St. Patrick's Day math counters to support your preschooler's math development.
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*How Many Shamrocks can You fit in your hand?
Have students count how many shamrocks they can fit in their hand.
You can extend the learning by graphing your classes results. |
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Pot of Gold CountingUsing a gold permanent marker, write numbers on mini pots of gold. Add the correct amount of gold coins, or coin candy to each pot.
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Counting Clover Leaves
Go outside to find a lucky clover. Count the leaves.
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Order shades of greenPractice sorting and classification by ordering shades of green!
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Light Table Rainbow
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Add all kinds of fun textures and interesting St. Patrick's themed items to your sensory table this week. Some ideas: Green Crinkle Paper Shreds, Gold Coins , Rainbow Jello, Dried Peas, Foam 4 leaf clovers, Rainbow/Green Died Rice, Green Milk Caps, Rainbow/Green Dyed noodles, or Green Pom-Poms
Here are some inspirational photos from our community members |
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St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin from Community Member Melanie P.
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St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin from Laurie P. of Pitter Patter Dayhome
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Gold SlimeMake your own Gold slime!
You can create a green or gold slime, or clear with gold and green chunky glitter for something special! |
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*Leprechaun Trap Building Challenge
This is always a fun project for St. Patrick's Day. Have student's individually or in groups create and decorate their Leprechaun Trap. While students are out of the room you can set off their traps and leave little gifts behind for a treat.
See our suggestions for this activity on my blog. |
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Green and Gold Sensory SortThis invitation is simple yet a powerful sensory experience that will keep preschoolers engaged. Cut up yellow and green sponges, add to a container of water. Children can sort the "shamrocks" and "gold" sponges into different containers.
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Horseshoe Magnet ExperimentProvide horseshoe magnets along with large fender washers, coins, and a variety of other similar objects. Children can test and sort based on whether each object is magnetic.
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Which Animals eat clover?Engage your preschoolers in a discussion about what type of animals might eat clover. Follow-up with some research!
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*Clover Shape Leaf CardsWork on finger strength, dexterity, and hand-eye coordination while practicing shape recognition with these cute Clover Shape Leaf Cards included in our St. Patrick's Day Activity Pack
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*Outdoor Coin Hunt
Gather some gold coins to create a treasure hunt outside. Be sure to hide the coins high and low to promote whole body movement.
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*Flip coins into a pot of gold
Using your thumbs or pointer fingers to flip coins into a pot of gold.
This is a challenging and very fun fine motor St. Patrick's Day activity. |
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*Gross Motor: Shamrock Search and MatchHide shamrocks around the room for students to find. Once a student finds one, have them come back and meet as a large group. Once everyone is back as a class, have students see who has the matching shamrock to the one they found.
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Learn more about Ireland
There is so much to explore about Ireland! Listen to Irish Music, read an Irish folk story,
or try some traditional Irish food. |
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Learn How to do the Irish Jig
Watch a video, and learn how to do the Irish Jig !
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Play a game together: Leprechaun Dress-up Rolling Game*
Play a fun game together like this Leprechaun Dress Up Rolling Game from our St. Patrick's Day Activity pack.
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What is something you are lucky to have?
Have a group discussion about things you are lucky to have.
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Pot of Gold Sign-in ActivityWelcome your students to class with this engaging name recognition activity.
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Download your free copy of this set of St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Counting Cards.
This set includes:
Counting Cards Cards 1-10
Directions, TOS, Graphics Credit
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This St. Patrick's Day activity pack makes it easy for you to set up fun hands on, engaging preschool math and literacy centers to compliment your themed unit.
This 66-page printable St. Patrick's Day activity pack includes the following activities:
Cover, TOS, Directions and Graphics Credit
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This set includes themed daily sign in and sign out attendance activities for your whole year! These activities help young children learn to recognize their names in a fun way. Your students will love finding their names each day. Simply laminate, add velcro and hang on a wall (or place in a binder).
This editable .pdf file includes an automated class list to make it easy to customize your sign in activities. Simply fill in the form and all of the activities will automatically update with your student names.
Inside this editable set you will find the following themed activities:
TOS & Graphics Credit
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