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.

St Patrick's Day Printable: Bottle Top Letters & Spelling Cards

Here's some St Patrick's Day Spelling Practice Printables.

The idea is to print a sheet of matching alphabet letters and adhere them onto milk bottle tops. I got the idea from Carissa at 1+1+1=1. You could always just use the letters though, you don't really need the bottle tops.

This download inlcudes 2 sheets, the second sheet is simpler words, such as flag and gold etc. There is also a second version in the download with red and blue letters, so be sure you only print the pages you want.

You will also need to print off the matching letter sheets, these
are on a seperate download.

Download links:

St Patricks Day Spelling Word Cards

Alphabet Letter Sheets