St Patricks Day: Activity ideas and links to all 6 EYs learning areas
 

:magnify: These ideas have been sorted out into the 6 learning areas to help fill in your planning sheets.

Saint Patrick's Day

:clover: Mathmatical Development

:snake: Inky Bears's Counting cut 'N' paste activity sheet.
:snake:And Calculator Caterpillar's leprechaun numberline!

:clover: Physical Development

'Watch the leprachaun' - play a musical statues type game where the children (could be dressed in green!) are leprachauns and have to stand still when the music stops and cover their eyes!
This game will relate to the story of the leprachaun disappearing if 'eyes are taken off of him!'
Children can continue moving & dancing around the room once the music begins again.

:clover: Communication Language Literacy

Use a colouring picture of a leprachaun and cut out all the pieces.
Then, as for a jigsaw/simple sequencing, talk about the order, colour, use of, and what the items of clothing are called.
Do this whilst you and the children re-assemble all the pieces into one picture again.

:clover: Creative Development
Crafts
1. A great basket idea from our 'Mothers day thread' Thanks Sadie! could be adapted to create 'pots of gold'!
:bell:Paint the baskets black or collage with black paper.
:bell:Use gold and silver foil and let the children cut circles and then take impression rubbings from real coins (not necessarily our denomination!!!)
2. Easel rainbows - Pin up large sheets of white paper for the children to paint their own rainbows on.
3. Shamrock biscuits - use a clover template to cut out simple biscuit shapes. Have these pre made so that the children can Ice and decorate them OR using green food colouring and a basic biscuit recipe make them during your cooking session.
SHAMROCK TEMPLATE

4. A few other ideas.....
:snake: Green Playdough + green glitter
:snake: Green Ice cubes & Green jelly in the water tray

:clover: Knowledge & understanding of the World

Discover the traditon of 'Blarney stone kissing' !

:clover: Personal Social Emotional
It is said that if you catch a leprachaun he must give you 3 wishes!
Use this as a basis to ask the children what they would wish for!
Use a speech bubble picture to write down what and why the child decided on their wish.

Lovely ideas Ruth! The children could also make a Irish Flag(KUW)
Make some Irish Soda bread.(PD) (PSED) (MD) (KUW)
Learn some Irish Dancing (PD) Irish Language(CLL)