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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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