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St Patrick’s day: During the end of Feb beg of March I always tell my preschoolers that the Leprechauns are watching to make sure we are behaving. They also like to play tricks on us. They turn our lemonade green, they turn our chairs over when we leave the room, they even hide our things from us! Then on St Patty’s day the Leprechauns leave a note apologizing for their silliness and leave a bag of goodies for each child.
Art activities: paint a shamrock green and sprinkle it with green glitter (variation: dye rice green with rubbing alchol and green food coloring to put on the painted shamrock)
Make a collage with green items the children have found and cut from magazines
paint a rainbow with finger paints Glue cotton balls at the bottom of each end to make it look like clouds
Easter art activities: glue pastel tissue paper on an egg shape.
Give each child one paper plate and a half of another one. Color each plate brown. Staple the halved plate to the bottom of the other plate to make it look like a basket. Have the children fill the pocket with easter grass. Then they can glue easter eggs to the top of the paper plate. When finished it looks like an easter basket.
Glue cotton balls or white batting to a easter bunny cutout or color page.
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classic egg hunting
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buy a bunch of green hats and let the students take them home and decorate them. Then have them march around with their hats in front of the rest of the classes(they’ll feel so proud!!). Ask them to dress up in green and maybe write a poem or something to share with the class.
One year my teacher had us get into groups and design traps to catch a leprechaun. Each group gets a different place in the room and all of them get different supplies that they pick from you. When they leave or when you come back the next day cut the traps to make it seem like the leprechaun was there and leave special chocolates or stickers or treats for the kids to find in their traps(also like a leprechaun shoe or hat or buckle or clothing)
Have them go on a leprechaun hunt through the school(or classroom). Leave a bunch a rhyming clues in each place along with something special the students can take in just a few of the stops, so they don’t think you put all of the treats there. At the end maybe they can go back to their seats and find something in their desks. Be creative!
Have them paint their own leprechauns and you can supply them with little things to decorate them with like sparkles or paper hats. Have them cut them out and place them around the room while a few students stay out of the room. See if those students can find the leprechauns around the classroom. You can do that for all the students or just a few if you don’t want to take up too much time(remember:fair hiding places!)
Cut out a big leprechaun and have them each take turns putting something on it.
Have them design there own cookies and cook them during their lunch or in between other activities.
You can do face painting. Paint some swirls or hearts or clovers on their cheeks and have them pretend they are leprechauns.
Pretty much just do anything that involves mystery or being creative and they’ll have fun. 🙂
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No, it’s not very busy at all. lol
For St Pat’s I have the kids decorate baby food jars with paint or stickers and fill them with green candy.
Easter: Save ice cream buckets and let them decorate them with stickers and then use them for Easter baskets. After Easter, they can use them for holding toys or crayons, etc.
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St Patrick’s day: During the end of Feb beg of March I always tell my preschoolers that the Leprechauns are watching to make sure we are behaving. They also like to play tricks on us. They turn our lemonade green, they turn our chairs over when we leave the room, they even hide our things from us! Then on St Patty’s day the Leprechauns leave a note apologizing for their silliness and leave a bag of goodies for each child.
Art activities: paint a shamrock green and sprinkle it with green glitter (variation: dye rice green with rubbing alchol and green food coloring to put on the painted shamrock)
Make a collage with green items the children have found and cut from magazines
paint a rainbow with finger paints Glue cotton balls at the bottom of each end to make it look like clouds
Easter art activities: glue pastel tissue paper on an egg shape.
Give each child one paper plate and a half of another one. Color each plate brown. Staple the halved plate to the bottom of the other plate to make it look like a basket. Have the children fill the pocket with easter grass. Then they can glue easter eggs to the top of the paper plate. When finished it looks like an easter basket.
Glue cotton balls or white batting to a easter bunny cutout or color page.
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preschool teacher for 11 years