Kid Craft: St. Patty's Day Rainbows. This weekend is St. Patrick's Day, and I thought a little rainbow project would be appropriate for my Pre-School and Junior Kindergarten art classes. I began by asking my students if they knew what holiday was coming up, and a little girl happily answered, "It's Leprechaun Day! " The great thing about this project is that it uses minimal supplies, can be adjusted based on age-level by changing the medium, and can be completed in less than 30 minutes. Paper Plates + Scissors + String, Ribbon or Thread + Glue + Cotton Balls + Crayons, Colored Pencils, Markers or Paint* 1. 2. 3.
Depending on age level, steps 1-3 might need to be done for the child. 4. Choose coloring medium based on age level. If you are using paint, explain what happens if colors get blended. While the children work, encourage them to really think about the colors and order of the rainbow. 5. 6. 7. 8. Shamrock Apple Printing and Other Stuff! I don't know if anyone has ever done this before, but I was cutting apples and thought of this! I love apple printing in the Fall, but what about using an apple to create a shamrock or four leaf clover for St. Patrick's Day??? Here is my example: These are the supplies you will need: an apple, green paint (tempera or acrylic), a paint brush, and sponge to be used as a stamp pad: First, I dabbed the green paint on the sponge and spread it with a brush to cover a surface big enough for the apple. Test it to see if there is enough paint on the sponge before you do a final print! Cut the apple in half very evenly or it will be difficult for a child to get the whole apple printed!!
We tried printing shamrocks (3 leaves) and four leaf clovers and just added a stem with a brush! Here is our lucky four leaf clover again: Just plain apple prints: (I was thinking older kids could cut these out to form shamrocks too!) We experimented with using our fingerprints as the leaves of shamrocks too! Activités pour le Préscolaire: Piège pour capturer les farfadets de la St-Patrick avec une plaque à cuisson chauffante.... Viens ici petit lutin....Suis les pièces d'or afin de trouver ton pot au pied de l'arc-en-ciel... C'est avance encore juste un petit peu et hop! | Nous t'avons bien eu!
Eh oui! Mon fils et moi avons créé un piège à lutin hier avec des crayons de cire, du papier d'aluminium (ou papier ciré) et une plaque électrique chauffante Notre piège étant de le faire suivre les pièces d'or étalées sur le sol et lorsqu'il trouve son pot d'or, il tombe dans le trou et atterri dans un sac. Ici, ici petit lutin! Nous avons ensuite percé un trou dans le papier d'aluminium sous le pot rempli de pièces d'or et sous la feuille, nous avons collé un petit sac avec des cordons. Bonne chasse aux petits farfadets et bonne St-Patrick! Facebook. St. Patrick's Day Sight Words Game (with free printable) I spent some time this last weekend making a Sight Word Game for my Kindergartner and I've been so excited to share it with you. Below you will find the printables I made for the game.
Just click on the images to be directed to the download page. I printed my Game Board on heavy cardstock and laminated it with clear contact paper. The Shamrock Notepad Card Page can be cut into fourths to make four cards. (**FYI: The Game Board Printable appears to have white lines in it when you open the document, but when you print it they aren't there.) To play the game you will also need 1 or 2 dice, a game piece to move around the board, and a pencil.
For our game pieces, I cut a small circle out of cardboard and put a glitter shamrock sticker on top. How to Play: Start the game with your shamrock game piece outside the pot on the left side of "they". Reviewing sight words with flashcards gets so drab around our house, so I like coming up with ways to make it more fun. St. Patrick's Day Hot Cocoa. Hot Cocoa is the favorite special treat around our house during the Winter. I heat the water in a kettle on the stove and when the kids hear the familiar whistling sound they always jump in delight and yell, "Yay, hot chocolate!! " I have to say that it is one of the few things that I love about the long Winter months here in Utah. Since it is a special treat I've started to get a little creative with our cups of hot cocoa. Here is our St. What special treats do you love during the Winter cold months?? St Patrick's Day Art. Sometimes when I get an idea for a craft in my head, I try it out myself first to see if I need to make any tweaks or changes.
Tonight I made this St. Patrick's Day Art and am so pleased with how it turned out. My boys saw it sitting on the counter after it was completed and said how cool it was so I can't wait to have them make it later this week. (I'll post pictures of their completed projects at the end of this post once they are finished.) I started by using a fork to paint grass onto the bottom of a blue piece of cardstock paper. I used acrylic paints to paint a rainbow coming out of the pot and used a circular sponge brush to dab on white clouds. It has definitely got me in the St. I like to link my posts up to THESE fun link parties.
Good Luck Charm Necklace. With St. Patrick's Day coming up I thought it was a perfect opportunity for my toddler to get some good hand to eye coordination practice in. I pulled out some of my awesome supplies received from Craftprojectideas.com and we decided to make some Good Luck Charm Necklaces for St. Patrick's Day. As you can see in the picture above, we used Hemp Cord for our necklace string, some green Pony Beads, Metallic Shape Beads and Alphabet Beads. All of these can be found in the crafts section at your local Wal-Mart. We only used green Metallic Beads to stay true to the St. Patrick's Day theme. My toddler LOVES stringing beads. Lila made a necklace for herself and one to send to one of her cousins as a special gift. I love how accomplished Lila felt wearing her little necklace around. Thanks for stopping by! A String of Shamrocks. Each shamrock has an activity written on the back of it for us to complete from now until St.
Patrick's Day. Most activities are simple things like "Play a game together as a family" or "Do a rainbow craft", etc. A couple are activities I hope to show you here on the blog as we do them. :) For a list of books we are reading for St. Patrick's Day, check out THIS POST. Shamrock Clothespin Clips. I saw the most darling clothespin heart clips at One Artsy Mama for Valentine's Day and I felt inspired to make some for St. Patrick's Day. I already had some clothespins on hand from Craftprojectideas.com so this project ended up being really simple. Amy used washi tape to cover the front and back of her clothespins which made the whole project so easy! I was bummed when I couldn't find any washi tape that had a St.
I found a green polka-dot sheet of scrapbook paper and cut strips to fit the clothespins. Once the modge podge was completely dry, I got out my glitter shamrock stickers (purchased from Michael's). They are so colorful and festive! Stop by tomorrow and I will show you what we are going to use them for. :) Little Leprechauns Craft. I've had this little craft idea in my head for a while now and was ecstatic to finally make it with my kids now that Valentine's Day has passed. My idea to make little Leprechaun's started when I made this Five Little Turkey's Craft with Lila last November using mini cupcake liners.
I looked at the liners and thought the little ridges were a perfect texture for little beards. After being unsuccessful in finding orange cupcake liners anywhere local, we decided to just paint some orange. While the cupcake liners dried, I cut out little Leprechaun hats from green construction paper and green polka-dot scrapbook paper and my boys helped cut out circles from a manila folder for the faces. The manila folders are the perfect Leprechaun skin tone color, eliminating the need for paint. Once the cupcake liners are dry, glue the faces onto them, and then the hats. Next, glue the Leprechauns all over a sheet of cardstock paper. Here is Andrew's collection of Leprechauns. Here is Lila's artwork.