Wrapping Up The St. Patrick's Day Fun

 These books were perfect for exploring and learning about the color green and shamrocks galore!

Using these great products from Creative Teaching Press, 

here's a quick look at more of our preschool activities for 

St. Patrick's Day!

The March-Poppin'Patterns Seasonal Calendar Days were the perfect accents for these seasonal counting workmats.  

(I glued the calendar number to the center of a Shamrock 10" Designer Cut-Outs ahead of time.)  

The children used gold coins and two-color calendar cut-outs to count sets.

 We turned the shamrocks over and used a die to practice our counting skills too!

 The March- Poppin'Patterns Seasonal Calendar Days were the perfect accents for these seasonal bingo cards.  

 The bingo cards were used with the preschoolers to reinforce number recognition.

  

These same cards could easily be used for addition and subtraction practice with kindergarten and first grade students.

  

We worked on letter recognition using the two-color shamrock calendar cut-outs.  

The child tossed a pom pom onto the card and named the letter.  

Some of the students also practiced individual letter sounds.

We played hopscotch on a field of shamrocks and 

matched the upper and lowercase letters.

 We counted shamrocks and made sets.

We had fun with patterns.

We matched shapes!

We continued our work with colors and patterns and made our own Shamrock Necklaces for a little St. Patrick's Day parade!

 Wow, it was a great week of fun and learning!

Thank you, Creative Teaching Press!

Spot a Leprechaun

 

Recycle plastic bottles this St. Patrick's Day!

"Discover" how much fun children ages 2-6 will have making these 

Leprechaun Bottles!

To get started, gather the materials from the project.  

I used pipe cleaners, magnetic wands, stickers, and paper clips.

 We used the cute Shamrocks Stickers from Creative Teaching Press.

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I special thank you to the wonderful people at Creative Teaching Press.  

Your products certainly help make Teaching Creative!

Before  sharing this activity with my students, I cut the stickers apart and attached paper clips to the individual shamrocks.  

(At this point, I left the paper backing on the stickers.) 

I also taped leprechauns to each magnetic wand and cut the pipe cleaners into small pieces.

Be sure to cover the shamrock stickers with the pipe cleaner pieces.

I placed the bowls and the wands on the table and the children searched for the shamrocks.
It was so quiet in the room while these preschoolers worked, we could have heard the small footsteps of a leprechaun!

The pipe cleaner pieces were attracted to the magnetic wand and provided for a little magnetic discovery and discussion. 

We made a game out of assembling this leprechaun bottle. 

I challenged the children to put all of the "rainbow" colored pipe cleaner pieces in the bottle.

A simple and fun fine motor and hand-eye coordination activity!

For a few of my Pre-K students assembling this bottle was also a sensory activity.  They weren't quite sure if they liked the way the pipe cleaners felt. 

Giggles and Gasps could be heard as they discovered the shamrock stickers in their bowls.  

We called the bowls the "pot of gold"!  

You may want to include some yellow sticker dot stickers as the gold! 

Shamrock stickers and a friend for the Leprechaun were quickly added to the bottle.   

The children were excited to take the bottles home so I encouraged them to add additional items such as colorful pom poms, small toys, shiny foil, etc. to attract a sneaky leprechaun!

Happy Friday!

The Shamrock Shake

 

We are reading, writing, and wearing the green this week!

Make sure your students are wearing the green this St. Patrick's Day with

"The Shamrock Shake Headbands".

Here's another way I used some of the fantastic products from 

Creative Teaching Press.

We made headbands with the Shamrocks Boarder.  

Here's What To Do:

Measure each student's head with a shamrock boarder strip and cut the strip to size.  

Staple this boarder strip at the top and the bottom to shape the headband.

Attach the Shamrock 6" Designer Cut-Outs to pieces of pipe cleaners and tape the pipe cleaners to the inside of the headband.

It was that simple. I hope you give it a try!

Everyone will be wearing their very own Shamrock Shake Headband by the time morning work is finished.

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If you don't have these fantastic Creative Teaching products at a store near you, grab some sentence strips and green construction paper.  Trace and cut out shamrocks and assemble the headbands in the same fashion!  

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During your morning meeting time, turn on the St. Patrick's Day music and dance your own version of The Shamrock Shake!

I'll be back tomorrow with a fun, sneaky, leprechaun project!

Happy Shamrock Shaking!

Thank You, Creative Teaching Press!

In February, I received an email from Creative Teaching Press inviting readers to share their Valentine's Day craft activities.  

I don't know about you, but I am usually full of ideas, but short on time!  Since that thought is usually the norm, I simply glance at those emails and think "Oh, that would be really great."  "I wish I had the time to send a few photos."  

Well, since I absolutely LOVE the products from Creative Teaching Press, I found five minutes and replied with two photos.  A few days later I received an email that my entry had been chosen as a winner!

Look at the fun products I received from the great people at 

Creative Teaching Press!

It was "Christmas Day" (only in March) when the Creative Teaching Box arrived at my front door!

I am excited to share the fun my pre-k students are having this week using these products.

The Shamrock 10" Jumbo Designer Cut-Outs were the inspiration for my favorite project of the week. 

 Here's What To Do:

Turn the Jumbo Shamrock upside down to make the body, add a semi-circle for the face, trace and cut out the hat, and glue the pieces together.  

Glue orange construction paper strips to the face and roll the ends of the strips to make a beard.

Accordion fold green construction paper strips and glue these strips to the jumbo shamrock to add the arms and the legs.

Add some boots, hands, and a buckle on the hat and you're almost done!

For the final touches, use a black marker to draw the face and add some "lucky" shamrock two-color calendar cut-outs to the Leprechaun's hat and hand.

I have many more fun ideas to share!  I'll post more pictures soon!

Happy Teaching and Learning!

St. Patrick's Day Fun From The Archives

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun

Here are a few former posts just in time for 

St. Patrick's Day!

Make These Cute Leprechauns!

Click here for the archived post.

 

  Review and practice -ing and -ed word endings.

Click here for the archived post.

 Grab a hat and practice sight words.

  Click here for the archived post.

  Use the letters in the word "leprechauns".

How many words can you spell?

Click here for the archived post.

So little time, so much fun!

Happy March!