Leprechaun Writing Activity

The holidays make every activity a lot more fun!  We added some writing practice to this adorable leprechaun craft.  Your class will love answering the question "If I found a pot of gold I would..." and you will love hearing all of their answers. 

 To make the leprechaun print the 2 pages in the download below.  I used regular printer paper but cardstock is also a good option.  Use the space on the pot to answer the question.  Depending on the age they can draw or write their answer.  The leprechaun above was made by my 5 year old practicing her writing skills.  The cute little one below was made by my 3 year old.  He said he would buy a bathtub for outer space.  I'm pretty sure his answer was inspired by big sister haha.

 Give them time to color, paint, or decorate their leprechaun.  Then cut (depending on age) and glue him together.  Super cute and easy! 

Download here

Rainbow Soup

Rainbow Soup is a fun, interactive way to practice colors and several math concepts such as counting, one-to-one correspondence, and sorting.

To play you'll need:

• the recipe cards included in the download
• the 10 frame (optional) included in the download
• a pot, bowl, or something to put your soup in.  I used a cauldron from Halloween but I've heard you can find them this time of year too.
• a spoon
• manipulatives for each color.  I used foam blocks and pom poms.  
• optional-tongs for extra fine motor practice and a container to hold your color manipulatives.

There are several recipe cards included.  Every card has 2 colors and clouds.  They all add up to 10.

  I included a 10 frame that works as a way to self-check their work.  They place each ingredient into one of the squares to make sure they have the correct number of ingredients.  If there is an empty box they will know to go back and check their work.  You do not need to use the ten frame, you can have them count their ingredients and make sure it adds up to 10.

After the ingredients are ready dump them into the pot and stir to make rainbow soup!

 Then the kids empty the pot, put the colors and clouds back by sorting, and grab a new card.

 You can also have them create their own recipes!  Set some paper out and add a writing element to this activity.

 Download Here

Adorable graphics from Krista Wallden - Creative Clips, and Fonts by Hello Literacy

St. Patrick's Day Color Mixing Sensory Bin

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St. Patrick's Day is the perfect time to teach little ones colors...especially green!  We have these fun bath colors and used them for a fun color mixing experiment.  We dropped a blue and a yellow on opposite sides of our bin.

 We watched them slowly move together and start mixing.

 Then we used a mixer and really made green.  My 5 year old loved this!

 Since we had a bucket of green water we added some fun fine motor tools, rainbow foam puzzle pieces, pennies, and some black paper cups for pots of gold.

 They had fun exploring and eventually decided to open a restaurant where they served "clover soup."  They came up with this on their own :)  I could order how many covers aka pennies I wanted in my soup.

 It was a fun, not to messy, learning activity.

St. Patrick's Day Activity Days

We just had Activity Days and we did a fun St. Patrick's Day treasure hunt and worked on passing off one of the requirements in their Faith in God books.  We talked about baptismal covenants and how we renew them each week when we take the sacrament. It fits well with Learning and Living the Gospel #1.  They took home this cute bookmark that they can place in their scriptures and review during the sacrament (in the download at the end of this post)

A couple of years ago we did a treasure hunt for St. Patrick's day and it was a big hit.  Most of my girls are new so we went with the same concept but a different topic and tweaked the idea a bit.

Here's a bit of my set up. A lot of this came from the Dating Diva's blog.  You'll want to head over there and print the clues, task cards, and activities-its the 2nd download link.  I did adjust a couple of the activities to work with activity days (theirs is for a family).  So I did NOT print the last 2 pages of their download.  I also used gold coins from the dollar store so I did not print the coin page either.  If you are at a church you will need to create your own clues.  We have activity days at my house so I was able to use the ones provided.  In my other activity I do have clue cards for the church and blank ones if you would like to create your own. 

In the download below I included 

1. "I'm lucky to have you cards"- in place of the just a note cards.  I had the girls pick a person and write why they were lucky to have them.  Most of my girls wrote a note to each other :)  

2. Find 5 things that are green.  Theirs is more specific and didn't quite work for our group.

3. Don't eat Pete game.  They have one included but I already had one made so I just used mine :)

I still used their task cards for these activities.  I love the cute rhymes.

I placed the clues, task cards, items for each task and a puzzle piece in each bag.  The puzzle piece in the page below cut into pieces.  Have the girls save these pieces for later.  As they find each clue bag they need to complete the task before they move on and find the next clue.  This was a really fun addition to the game.  It does take a while so plan accordingly.

 For our treasure at the end I had a bucket of starburst but skittles or chocolate coins would be cute!

After the treasure hunt we put the puzzle together and discussed baptismal covenants and how they renew them each week during sacrament.  We ran out of time but I planned to play the match game found in this post.  Instead of using the "promise" cards we were going to place the matches under the different sides of the rainbow puzzle.

For our treat we made brownie parfaits found here.

We finished off making rainbow bracelets.

Download free printables Here

Our other can St. Patrick's Day Treasure Hunt found here

St. Patrick's Day Don't Eat Pete!

It's time for another Don't Eat Pete! Its a fun game that kids LOVE to play.  This month its all about leprechauns and isn't he adorable?!?

If you've never played here's a quick how to:  Print off the board game...cardstock works best.  Place one piece of candy (skittles, jelly beans, Cheerios, or whatever you have) on each leprechaun.  Send one person to out of the room and quietly decided which one is going to be Pete for that round.  Lets say you pick the one in the center.  Have the person come back into the room and eat one of the pieces of candy off each character UNTIL they pick up the one chosen as Pete (in this case the one in the center).  When they pick up this candy everyone yells "Don't eat Pete!" and their turn ends.  Add candy to the ones taken on the last turn and play as many times as you want picking a new Pete each time. 

Download your free printable here!

8 adorable St. Patrick's Day activities for kids

Here are a few adorable St. Patrick's day Crafts and activities.  Some of these were originally posted on my old preschool blog that we did a few years ago and others are a little newer.

A little Leprechaun

(idea found here)

and another one

(idea found here)

and another one!

Hunt for hidden clovers

Make green rice crispy treats-Just add green food coloring

Hand print shamrocks (idea found here)

I traced around her fist 4 times and cut them out. I also cut a little stem out. She then glued it together to make a clover.

Painted Hand print Leprechaun (idea found here)

These were a lot of fun! I painted her wrist green for the hat and her hand orange for the beard.

She then made her print on card stock. With the extra paint still on her hand she made a cool picture. She loved it so much she insisted on having a leprechaun with a blue beard and a pink hat.

After it dried she glued on the face, drew a rainbow, and added clouds.

Leprechaun Faces (idea found here)

We painted the outside of the paper plate (face down) orange for a beard.

After it dried she cut slits. I cut out the hat, eyes, and mouth. She glued it all together.

You can also find a cute treasure hunt on this post (there are blank shamrocks at the end of the download for you to use).

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

St. Patrick's Day Activity Days

Update: I now have a new St. Patrick's day treasure hunt for activity days.  You can find it here.

Here's a cute and fun activity that fits in perfectly with St. Patrick's day.  We covered the Faith in God requirements and worked on the Articles of Faith.  

Snack

St. Patty's day brownie bites (I bought mine from Walmart) and green grapes

Activities

Faith in God Treasure hunt.  

This activity was inspired by this cute post.

I hid clues and puzzle pieces around the church. I hid one of each in the same area but in different spots.  We have 14 girls so I wanted to give more of them a chance to find something.

I started with something like...Lucky you we are going on a treasure hunt today.  We are looking for a very special treasure so first you need a few instructions: follow the clues, stay together, remember you are in the church so please do not run, take turns,  and in addition to the clue there will be a puzzle piece please collect them and  please don't loose them.

 Their treasure.  We put the puzzle together before I passed out the treats.  They ate them as we went over the requirements.  We have a lot of new girls and it was a great reminder for the girls that have been in for a while.

Here's the handout:  Copy and paste in a word document and size. I kept mine at 4x4 but they are a little too big for my bags but easy to read.  

You can download my puzzle and clues.  I'm not very creative in this department so I included blank ones too.

Click here to download

I also introduced our Faith in God Challenge cards.  I found the idea on Little LDS ideas. We used one of her card this month

Articles of Faith Basketball

idea found here.  Don't forget your green bucket.  We divided into 3 teams and I brought 3 different colors of paper we reused.  The girls LOVED it!

I Introduced our Articles of Faith Ice Cream Challenge.  Idea from here.  I brought a little box with punch cards, articles of faith prints, and a hole punch.  We will use this too keep track of the one they pass off and have our party in June.

Left over time played Don't eat Pete.  found here.  Don't forget to use Lucky Charms!

I wasn't sure how this activity would go but the girls had so much fun and asked if we could do it again next week.  The biggest reward was to see them trying to pass off Articles of Faith and being excited for their 2 new challenges.  

You can find some of our other Activity Day ideas here including my Faith in God workbook for the girls.

adorable clip art from