St Patrick's Day - Arty Crafty Party

 Paddy's Day is just around the corner, it's time share all of the fun, hands on things you and your kiddo's have been doing together to celebrate and learn more about St Patrick and the country of Ireland.

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St Patrick's Day Printables For All Ages

         

Notebook/Lapbook Cover Sheets.

Memory or Snap Game

Pot o Gold Puzzle

Clip The Evens Cards

Symbols Of St Patrick's Day Mini Booklets

What Is It Layered Booklet

Presentation Pages for the two booklets below

What Is St Patrick's Day Booklet

Who Was St Patrick? Booklet

Shamrock Size Sequencing

Paddy's ABC's

Bottle Top Letters Spelling Cards

St Patrick's Day: Learning Fun Part 3, Wrap Up

We had a our small St Patrick's Day Morning Tea this morning. It was green, green and more green.


Green vegies and dips, green drinks, green cakes, green chips, green lollies, green jelly and even green cream for our scones!


The kids smothered biscuits with green icing and green sprinkles.....just for a bit of extra sugar!!



A lovely morning with family, swiming, catching up and having fun.

We also put together the lapbook and notebook that the kids have been working on.

B's St Patrick's Day Notebook

He chose his water colour map of Ireland for the front page.

Inside the Irish Flag and his mini booklets about St Patrick's Day and Saint Patrick himself.

The Leprechaun's Walk and Finding Ireland on a World Map.

Symbols of Ireland Mini Books, B wrote a small piece about each symbol.

A detailed hand drawn map of Ireland and the surrounding area, plus a spot of colouring in.

And yes, another Irish Map, do you kind of get the feeling he likes map work?!

We have left a couple of blank pages to include some photo's of the morning tea.

At this stage the plan is combine all of B's work into one large spiral bound notebook at the end of the year. We may change our mind, it will depend on how much there is, but we won't include all of the mundane maths and language worksheets, maybe just a few tests he completes as part of his math and language programs.

K's St Patrick's Day Lapbook

She chose a colouring page for her cover image.

Inside on the left hand flap is the Paddy's ABC's booklet, we've been going over these daily to help with initial sounds. Plus her Leprechaun's Walk, she really enjoyed this activity. The yellow piece on the right is a flap that lifts up, she has glued her Irish Flag to this side.

Underneath the yellow flap (right side of the file folder) is her symbols booklets. We discussed each symbol and K wrote the name of each symbol inside the little booklet.

On the under side of the yellow flap she glude her rainbow and shamrock suncatchers.

On the back cover is her 'Where Is Ireland?" Map.

We just need to find a spot to include a couple of the morning tea photo's from today.

We had fun with this and learned quite a bit along the way, both me and the kids.

St Patrick's Day Printable: Little Symbols Booklets

These are simple little fold over mini booklets depicting the symbols of St Patrick's Day.

There is enough room inside for a slightly older child to write some about each of the symbols or for a younger child to draw a picture.

Two seperate downloads for these, the Pot Of Gold one is here 











The Shamrock, Harp and Celtic Cross download
is available here

Some of the booklets fold up or down just to add a
bit of interest.

St Patrick's Day: Learning Fun Part 2

This week we've been working through our little booklets for our Lapbook and Notebooking work on St Patrick's Day. I put together these simple little "Symbols of St Patrick's Day" booklets for K. (download coming soon) We discussed each one, what it was and why it is a symbol of St Patrick's Day. K then wrote the name of each item inside the little booklet. B provided a few more details on the symbols for his.


B also had a couple of more in depth booklets to complete, What Is St Patrick's Day and Who Was St Patrick.


The kids also worked on their Morning Tea Invitations.

St Patrick's Day Spelling, with Milk Bottle Top Letters and The Moveable Alphabet.



I'm fairly certain that K now has even numbers down pat after working with her Clip The Evens 1 and Clip The Evens 2 Activities.

I downloaded The Leprechaun's Walk from here. Both kids enjoyed completing this simple story writing exercise. I definitely need to find or make more of these, especially for B to extend on.

But oh my gosh, little K....I have never seen her complete so much writing. Allin all, this week she completed the Leprechaun's Walk Book, her name on the Morning Tea Invites and most of her little lapbook booklets. That is definitely the most handwriting she has done, can't you tell I am one happy mamma!!

Oh and we also made Rainbow (with clouds) and Shamrock Suncatchers during the week.

We've just got a couple of little things to complete (plus the morning tea) and we are all done with St Patrick's Day.

St Patrick's Day: Morning Tea Invitation

One of my goals this year is to make learning more relevant to real life. I just don't understand why children are required to complete an imaginary exercise in a workbook on how to write an invitation for example.

This is such a simple thing to do using a real life opportunity. So that is exactly what we did, nothing fancy, just a simple hand written invitation. This will also include writing out the envelope and mailing them off.

We decided to have a small St Patrick's Day Morning Tea (all family members now is the time to skip this blog post) this coming weekend so that everyone can attend.

We first discussed everything that we would need to include on the invitation. We then wrote out an 'example invitation' to follow.


It was B's job to do the handwriting (K is writing her own name), K and I will probably glue them onto some green cardstock and she can decorate each of them with some clip art images. That is if B doesn't decide to do all of the artwork himself, like he has here.

We decided since it was only close family that we really didn't need to include our address. I have blotted out the kids names, under the smears there. Just realised there is a spelling error, oops!!

St Patrick's Day: Suncatchers

Tissue Paper and Clear Contact Suncatcher's, an oldie but a goodie. Really what theme can you not adapt this to!!!

The Rainbow got them thinking as opposed to just randomly placing colours all over the sticky contact. They even added clouds to the bottom of them.

The Shamrock's were simpler but they were definitely required, right?!!

And don't they look fabulous on the window.