St. Patrick's Day Fun Activities

St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner! Here are some fun ways to celebrate!

 

Fun Ideas:

• Green toilet bowl water
• Painted mini feet around the environment ( make your hand into a fist, pain the side of your hand green and stamp, use your fingertip dipped in paint to create toes)
• Create an environment that looks like a ‘mischievous’ leprechaun may have visited – turn chairs upside down, turn picture frames backwards, move things into areas they wouldn’t typically be in! Really have fun with it!
• Create a leprechaun trap (http://littlehandslotsoflove.blogspot.com/2011/03/leprechaun-trap.html) , and in the morning leave a map inside so the children can see they didn’t catch the leprechaun but he left them a map! Have a hidden ‘treasure’ of some sort at the X marks the spot! (Some great treasure ideas include: Lucky Charms cereal, Shamrock stickers, 'gold' coins, anything with a rainbow on it such as pencils, erasers, stickers, etc. or anything green! Such as socks (silly leprechaun!)
• Have fun with rainbows, put crystals in the window, make rainbow cupcakes or pancakes, use rainbow sprinkles on things such as the rim of their milk glass

Cool Games:

• Duck Duck Goose! Variation – Leprechaun, Leprechaun, Rainbow! (Or Gold!)
• Doggy Doggy Where’s Your Bone? Variation – Leprechaun, Leprechaun where’s your gold
• Shamrock Search - Cut out many shamrock shapes and hide them around the room. Have the children search for them like an Easter Egg hunt.

Great Songs and Fingerplays:

Where or Where? Sung to "Where oh Where has my Little Dog Gone?"

Where, oh where has my pot of gold gone?

Oh Where, Oh Where could it be?

It's black and big and full of gold,

Oh Where, Oh where could it be?

Did You Ever See a Leprechaun? (Did you ever see a lassie?)

Did you ever see a leprechaun, a leprechaun, a leprechaun

Did you ever see a leprechaun go this way and that?

Go this way and that way and this way and that way

Did you ever see a leprechaun go this way and that?

I'm a Little Leprechaun To the tune of I'm a Little Teapot

I'm a little leprechaun dressed in green
the tiniest man that you've ever seen.
If you ever catch me so it's told
I'll give you my pot of Gold!

Five Little Shamrocks 

1 green shamrock, in the morning dew,

Another one sprouted, and then there were two.

2 green shamrocks, growing beneath a tree;

Another one sprouted and then there were three.

3 green shamrocks, by the cottage door;

Another one sprouted,

And then there were four.

4 green shamrocks, near a beehive

Another one sprouted,

And then there were five.

5 little shamrocks, bright and emerald green,

Think of all the luck these shamrocks will bring.