St. Patrick's Week

For our St. Patrick's week we focused on rainbows and colors.  We also talked a bit about St. Patrick, Ireland, leprechauns, etc. 

We used this idea to make it 'rain rainbows'.  The kids loved seeing all the colors on top of the shaving cream and how they mixed together to make new colors.

We also used this color wheel (we've used before) to make rainbows

I get lucky charms once a year for St. Patrick's Day.  The kids pick out the marshmallows and no one eats the rest.  We used this graph to chart and count before eating.

We tried drawing rainbows

and finger painting.  I made finger paint just with cornstarch and water.  I drew the lines on the paper with a crayon so the kids could make the rainbow

We went on a green scavenger hunt.  It was interesting, the younger kids (just turned 3-years-old) couldn't focus on two adjectives.  They could find something green OR something hard, but couldn't seem to focus on the idea that it should be green AND hard, or green AND something you eat.  

speaking of things to eat...we made lots of rainbow foods this week.   This one is a quesidilla dyed with some colored water.  We used a pineapple for the sun and marshmallows for the clouds.  

You can't really tell, but we also dyed our waffles to be rainbow colors.  We used banana pennies for the gold and cottage cheese for the cloud.

Brielle also requested a leprechaun.  I wasn't sure how to do that, but came up with this.  I used tortilla to make the face and ears.  Shredded carrots for the hair and beard.  Raisin eyes, a green pepper hat, and mouth drawn with food-safe marker.

Gavin and Elise's mom put together this sensory activity for the kids.  She wrote letters on Rolos so the kids could find the letters to spell out their names.  

I then used it for an idea I saw for Brielle to practice sight words.

 The Leprechaun Trap

We read the book 'The Night Before St. Patrick's Day".  The kids all caught on to the idea of trapping a leprechaun and were determined they could do it. 

Using an idea from the book the kids decided to use legos to build their trap.  Brielle determined it should be rainbow colors to lure the leprechaun over to it.  They then put pennies in the container and thought the leprechaun would go up the steps and fall into the hold and get caught in the container.

The next morning they found their trap had been knocked over.  The leprechaun had left a note and tied green string all over the house.

the followed the green string to find their prize at the end

Isn't being a kid so much fun?