Preschooler Activities for St. Patrick's Day

Today is my little boy's FIFTH birthday. I can't believe it. Especially since I revisited some of these older posts from when my two oldest were just three and one. It really does sail by.

Leprechaun Hats:

 We are studying the letter H right now so we made these hats which work well for St. Patty's day too! Step by step instructions found over at the East Coast Mommy Blog. They were quick and easy to make and then they spent a good half hour decorating them with stickers.

We made a mess. We are SO good at that.

Just as I was about to take this picture Edison whips around with these scissors, opening and closing them as fast as he can. Stinker.

(Our Family Systems poster is explained HERE)

Shamrock Search

 We did a hunt for the letter H on these shamrocks and they wanted to do it over and over again. I had them put buttons on different letters (after we did the H) and then we would clear the board and go again!

When we were bored with the letters we moved onto SHAPES and then NUMBERS.

The possibilities are endless. And now, I will be following the lead of my little five year old today. FIVE. Happy Pi Day!

Here is a blast from the past and some fun ideas for St. Patrick's Day this week:

Shamrock Memory Game & Crafty Rainbows

Rainbow Cupcakes

Fun St. Patrick's Day Facts

Toddler Activities for the Letter H

So I needed an activity for the Letter H last minute and I came up with this one... It may not be my finest idea, but we had fun! We gathered some magazines and cut out pictures of things that make us feel happy. We talked about this emotion and the sound of the letter H, etc. We cut out our pictures and taped them to our bike helmets. And then we went for a bike ride together. (Just writing it out like that makes me laugh at myself. Good thing my kids still think I'm cool).








Wonder how long it will last...

Toddler and Preschooler Activities for the Letter H

Last week we learned about the letter "H." We did a Hunt for colored shapes and placed them onto corresponding shapes on a sheet of paper. I got this idea from No Time for Flash Cards where she used dried black beans and had her kids "mine" for jewels.
Since I didn't have any black beans, we hunted for our shapes amongst corn kernels and of course we used some Headlamps.

Materials:
Corn kernels (or any type of dried beans)
tray or pan
foam paper
construction paper
pen
stick glue
scissors

Step One:
Cut a variety of shapes in different colors and bury them in your pan full of kernels. Draw corresponding shapes on a piece of construction paper for your kids to glue the shapes onto once they find them.

Step Two: For the headlamps, I measured their heads with two strips of construction paper and stapled them together. I cut two squares of foam paper, one smaller than the other, glued them together and wrote the letter H on the front.


Step Three: I told my girls to hunt for shapes and glue them to their sheet as they found them.


As they found each shape, we talked about what the shape looked like (a circle is smooth all the way around; it looks like the moon, etc.). We also talked about the color of the shape.

Step Four: Once we found all the shapes, we counted them together and congratulated one another on a successful hunt.