Happy St. Pat's Day and Growing a Rainbow for Spring

Welcome

There was lots of 'wearin' of the green this week as we celebrated St. Patrick's Day.

Such a fun week with lots of learning and the highlight being us growing a rainbow....yes we did and it was easy and so fun!!!

So here's what we did last week.

St. Patrick's Day Wreath

We made some simple wreaths with a paper plate base. 

 

Banner

This is a simple banner we made with a pop up shamrock.

 

Dancing Leprechaun

We made this fun dancing leprechaun and he danced to some Irish Jig music.

(I'm sorry I don't have a printable for this....it's been in my files for years)

St. Patrick's Day Activities

Pot of Silver Coins

We decorated a little pot made with 2 paper plates.  The kids decorated them and then I hid silver coins all around the playroom and they had such fun taking turns trying to find them all.

Watch 

We had fun making these little watches.  We didn't know what time the leprechauns would arrive lol.

I used a green paper cup to create this simple watch. 

WATCH IT HERE

Telescope

We made these fun telescopes to look for Leprechauns.  They must have been at my house as all the water in the toilet was green!  We did do a walk in the neighbourhood looking for 'green' as well.

I cut a hole in the bottom of a paper cup and hot glued in a paper tube to create the telescope.

Shamrock Treat

I made these cute little shamrock treats by dipping pretzels into some melted white chocolate that I tinted with green food colouring.  I placed 3 together on a piece of parchment paper and added the stick while the chocolate was still soft.

GROWING A RAINBOW

This was such a fun activity.  

I just wish I could show you the video of my little ones watching this rainbow grow!!  It was so great.

Anyways, you take a folded paper towel and using Washable Crayola Markers, you colour each end of the paper towel with the markers.

Next, place each end of the paper towel into 2 shallow containers that have just a bit of water in them.

Sit back and watch the rainbow grow as the paper towel absorbs the ink.  

The anticipation was so fun.

Rainbow

We made a rainbow by colouring each craft stick a different colour and then glued them onto a cardboard base.  We added some cotton puffs for the clouds.

Welcome Spring

We welcomed Spring on Friday by making this cute little flower.  I used a paper plate for the head of the flower.

We are all happy to see Spring arrive.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.