St. Patrick's Day worksheets

Yesterday was a crazy day. Our schedule was off because we were able to sleep in a bit. Sutton spilled my coffee all over a bookcase, and it took a long time to clean. I was busy at nap time listing clothes on an auction site. Lucian fell and got hurt (he's ok). I switched our plans to do a quick worksheet instead of a handprint project, but never got around to posting about it.

I downloaded the 46 page free St. Patrick's Day worksheet pack from Totschooling. My kids both did the do-a-dot rainbow worksheet, while our daycare friend did the shamrock sheet. Sutton also did the shape tracing worksheet. 

Paper plate umbrellas

It's overcast and damp this morning. It's Perfect umbrella making weather. Today's project involved making umbrellas out of paper plates, gluing them on construction paper and then making a few rain drops out of tissue paper.

First the kids painted their pre-cut paper plates in the color of their choice. 

Then, we went to play for 45 minutes while the plates dried. When we and back we glued them to the paper and I drew handles on each one. I showed the kids how to crumple the tissue paper and they glued them on as raindrops. 

We have another umbrella craft for tomorrow and then we are taking a long weekend off! 

Season sorting worksheet

Today we talked about how winter weather is cold and snowy while summer weather is hot and sometimes rainy. Then they did a sorting worksheet where they glued the correct image to winter or summer.

You can download your free worksheet here.

Storm clouds

Even though it's not officially spring yet, the weather is warming up and the snow is almost gone. This is a great time to spend a week learning about the weather.

This morning we made storm clouds. First we talked about storm clouds and we talked about what happens if you mix black and white paint. Once they had the paint mostly mixed I instructed the kids to cover as much of their paper as they could while I cut out lightning bolts and rain drops.

When they were done painting they glued the raindrops and lightning bolts into their storm clouds.

These will take a good chunk of the day to dry, then we will hang them up.

Rainbow scavenger hunt

Today's rainbow project was a scavenger hunt. I instructed the kids to find toys that were the colors of the rainbow and lay them in rows to make a toy rainbow. 

Marshmallow painted rainbows

Yesterday the kids stamped rainbow fish using celery and had a great time. So, today we used marshmallows on toothpicks to make rainbows.

I printed out a rainbow template, and gave each kid six mini marshmallows stuck on toothpicks.

Then they used one marshmallow per color to make dots on their rainbows.

Rainbow fish

The kids had a blast with today's art project. They used celery as paint stamps to make rainbow fish.

I printed out the template from here. Then gave each child 6 pieces of cut celery, and a small paper plate with the 6 colors of paint. I helped our daycare friend (who is almost two), and my kids did their own. 

After their fish were done they just randomly stamped on paper since they were having so much fun.