Pot O Gold

St. Patricks Day is this weekend. So, of course, we started the crafts that we want to do to celebrate. While I was getting things together, I went to explain what St. Patricks day is to the kids. Then, Danika and Landon spoke up and told me that their teacher at preschool told them already. They told me that she said, "The leprechaun comes in your house, makes a mess and leaves the kids coins"- UM WHAT! Now, we have to leave them coins- when did this start! So, I am not sure what I am going to do- maybe chocolate coins if I can find some. But we will see!

Today, we were making pot of gold! Complete with rainbow. I got everything ready to begin. I cut the pot of gold, colours for the rainbow, and the coins. I also made a shamrock for each of the kids to put on too. This was an easy craft, but the kids love it!

First they had to glue the rainbow together. This was good for the older kids, because we talked about going from biggest to smallest, colours, and other colours in the rainbow.

Then we glued on the pot!

And then to complete the pot o gold, we added the gold pieces and the shamrock!

Ta Da! 

G is for Green

Today we did G is for Green. Still keeping with the St. Patrick's Day theme for the week.

I started by getting the stuff ready. I cut out a G with regular paper, and collected items that were green.



Then the kids all colored the G with different types of green colors- markers, crayons, pencil crayons.



Then we glued different green items on the letter. We used cut up paper, tissue paper, Popsicle sticks, foam stickers, and pom pom balls. (we were going to put glitter too, but I forgot to get it out!)




And then we had our final project!
During this we talked about the letters in the word GREEN (I wrote them out on the letter), and other things that start with the letter G, and also what things are green!

Pot of Gold at the end of the rainbow

In honor of St. Patricks day today, we made rainbows, complete with the pot of gold at the end!

We started off with a plain white sheet of paper, and a number of multi-colored strips of paper. We had the pot, and used glitter glue to put the "gold" on it.



Then the kids glued the colored strips to the white paper



After those dried (or almost dried), we cut them into rainbow shapes, and glued on the pot of gold!




Happy St. Patricks Day!