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Tot School St. Patrick’s Day

March 14, 2017

Tons of St. Patrick's Day themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

So it’s been snowing all day here, but we’re still thinking spring thoughts! This week we were on green and rainbow overload celebrating with some St. Patrick’s Day fun!

Tons of St. Patrick's Day themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, literacy, math, science, art, sensory bins, and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

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  Here were our plans for St. Patrick’s Day:

Tons of St. Patrick's Day themed activities and ideas. Weekly plan includes books, fine motor, gross motor, sensory bins, snacks and more! Perfect for tot school, preschool, or kindergarten.

  And here are the details of each activity:

5 great books to read aloud for a St. Patrick's Day theme. Perfect for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten.

Our favorite books this week were:
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover by Lucille Colandro
St. Patrick’s Day by Anne Rockwell
Green Shamrocks by Eve Bunting
Jamie O’Rourke & the Big Potato by Tomie DePaola
The Luckiest Leprechaun by Justine Korman

These marshmallow stamp rainbows turned out so cute and incorporated lots of fine motor practice. Great for St. Patrick's Day in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Marshmallow Stamp Rainbow: 

  For this rainbow craft I prepared a sheet of paper ahead of time by drawing the arc guidelines for the rainbow with a pencil.   Then we used a mini marshmallow and a clothespin for our paintbrush. Madelynn dipped the marshmallow into each color of tempera paint and followed the guidelines to fill in her rainbow.  This was a great fine motor and concentration activity for her.

We practiced sorting, color identification, and fine motor skills with this tasty color sort and stack rainbow. Great for St. Patrick's Day in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Color Sort & Stack: 

Who doesn’t love playing with their food? I stuck skewers into play dough and placed one Froot Loop of each color onto the skewers.  Madelynn worked hard to sort a tray full of cereal to stack a rainbow.

We had so much fun making these snip and glue shamrocks for our St. Patrick's Day theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

 Snip and Glue Shamrocks: 

We worked on our cutting skills with this Snip and Glue Shamrock. First, I printed a shamrock outline and cut strips of different shades of green paper. Then, Madelynn used her scissors to snip small pieces of paper, and glued them to fill in the shamrock.

Making this sticky window rainbow was an easy and fun way to practice fine motor skills with our St. Patrick's Day theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

 Sticky Window Rainbow: 

You know we love our sticky window activities over here. This week we made a rainbow with tissue paper. To prep the activity, I drew arcs on the contact paper with a pencil before peeling the backing off.  Then, I taped the contact paper sticky side out on the window for Madelynn to fill in.

Fizzy Rainbow:

This activity was super fun to watch because I didn’t tell Madelynn what was going to happen so each new color was a surprise! To prepare the activity I put a few drops of food coloring into 6 separate cups and line them up in rainbow order.  Next, I poured baking soda into each cup until the food coloring was covered (no exact measurement needed, more baking soda=more fizzy explosion.) Then I filled another cup with white vinegar, added eye droppers and set it all up on a tray for Madelynn to explore. Without any direction she knew just what to do, as soon as she started dripping vinegar into the cups they began to fizz.  As she added more each color began to show through and become brighter and brighter. Such an easy and fun way for her to explore rainbows and practice fine motor skills.

Learning is more fun when it involves movement! This rainbow ball game was a simple gross motor activity but we worked on so many skills: tossing, catching, listening, color recognition, and more. Great for St. Patrick's Day tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

 Rainbow Ball Game: 

This game was a combination of fine and gross motor practice.  I grabbed an O-Ball, filled it with rainbow colored scarves, then we played catch. Each time she caught the ball I named a color for her to find and pull out. Then she’d toss it back and name a color for me to find.

Learning is more fun when it involves movement! This rainbow bean bag toss was an easy and fun gross motor activity for our St. Patrick's Day theme. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Rainbow Bean Bag Toss: 

For this game we used rainbow bean bags and a hula hoop for a target. The goal was to throw the bean bags into the circle. Then we counted how many made it into the circle and how many landed outside.

Learning is more fun when it involves movement! Practice running, balancing, and sorting by color with this rainbow relay gross motor activity. Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Rainbow Relay: 

For this relay, I gave Madelynn a bowl of rainbow colored candy and a spoon.  On the other side of the room I lined up cups for each color. When I said go, Madelynn ran one color at a time across the room to sort them into the correct cups. Of course she stopped to snack on a few along the way 😉 If you don’t want a giant sugar rush you could also use Froot Loops cereal instead.

Shamrock Shuffle: 

  For this activity I printed small, medium, and large shamrocks, dumped them on the floor and labeled a 3 bins.  We took turns running back and forth with one shamrock at a time and dropping it in the right basket.

Leprechaun Leap:

To make this gross motor game a little more fun I started by cutting a beard from felt and attaching a piece of elastic to make it wearable.  Then I taped 6 lines of green tape at varying distances on the floor. I had Madelynn jump, hop on one foot, and even do a little jig from line to line to get all of her energy out.

These yummy snacks are perfect for a St. Patrick's Day theme in tot school, preschool, or kindergarten!

St. Patrick’s Day Snacks:

 Fruit Rainbows – This fruit rainbow was easy and could easily be made with different variations of fruit that you have on hand. We used strawberries, clementines, bananas, kiwi, blueberries, and grapes.Lucky Charms Treats – We made these treats following the recipe for Rice Krispy treats but swapped out the cereal with Lucky Charms.  (6 cups Lucky Charms, 3 Tbsps butter, 4 cups mini marshmallows Heat butter and marshmallows in microwave for 3 minutes. Stir until smooth. Add cereal. Press into a pan.)

 St. Patrick’s Popcorn – Pop a bag of microwave popcorn. Remove any unpopped popcorn kernels. Toss in green peanut M&Ms and marshmallows. Melt vanilla candy melts according to package. Pour half of melted candy over popcorn mixture. Stir and repeat with the second half. Pour mixture onto wax paper and add sprinkles.
Graham Cracker Rainbows – Break a graham cracker in half. Spread both halves with vanilla frosting. Add a few mini marshmallows for clouds. Cut a Rainbow Airheads Xtremes in half and form an arc between the clouds.  Sprinkle frosting with blue sugar.
Licorice Rainbow – I’ve seen treat bags with these rainbow Twizzlers on Pinterest so I thought I’d make something similar for a special snack this week.  Since I didn’t want to put them in a bag, I used a skewer and pushed it through each color. After arching the licorice back through the skewer a second time, I cut the extra length off then laid it on a plate with a few marshmallows for clouds.

We LOVE this St. Patrick's Day sensory bin. Lots of fun themed pieces to play with and explore! Great for tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

 St. Patrick’s Day Bin: 

In this bin: shamrock beads, green mega blocks, green table scatter, green coins, glitter shamrocks/leprechaun hats(from Hobby Lobby), and green pouch lids

St. Patrick’s Water Play: 

  In this bin: water, green food coloring, gold coins, shamrock table scatter, green and yellow bowls and cups

We LOVE this rainbow sort sensory bin. Great for St. Patrick's Day in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

 Rainbow Sort Sensory Bin:

  In this bin: white beans, colored paper rectangles, colored pom poms for sorting, and tweezers

We LOVE this dig for gold sensory bin. Great for St. Patrick's Day in tot school, preschool, or even kindergarten!

Dig for Gold Bin:

In this bin: rainbow rice, gold coins, scoops, and cups

Leprechaun Trap Building Bin:

In this bin: split peas, green magna tiles, gold coins, little people leprechaun (I used a zookeeper and added a few snips of felt with double stick tape for a hat and beard)

Want all of this week’s St. Patrick’s Day activities for tot school?  You can grab them here:
On my site : St. Patrick’s Day Plans & Printables On TpT: St. Patrick’s Day Plans & Printables

Or you can grab our entire year of themes and plans:
On my site here: Tot School Bundle On TpT here: Tot School Bundle

45 Weeks of engaging themed activities and ideas ready to go for your 2-3 year old. Weekly plans include suggested books, fine motor activities, gross motor ideas, sensory bins, snacks and more! Everything you need for a year packed full of Tot School fun and learning.

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