St. Patrick's Day Fun

We were all about St. Patrick's Day today. You know those Pinterest pins that you go crazy on and then never get around to doing? Well today we started in on them.

We started of playing a roll a rainbow math game. I just drew out my own rainbow and added a color dot to each arch (in Roy G. Biv order of course :)) and then wrote a number between 2 and 12 on each line. They had to roll 2 dice, add them together and then color the arch that matched the sum if they had that number on their rainbow. It was fun for both of them. I have been working on "counting on" with Luke and he is really getting it now. Maybe I should not say getting it as much as using it. I had the idea in my head when we started this game to see how he was doing with it and he did it on his own with ease. Sophie sometimes can see sums without even counting aloud which I do think is great but I am a mean mom and still make her count them just to keep "beatin' a dead horse". Can them little ones ever get to much counting practice {snicker..}?!

Here is the pin from LittleFamilyFun. Here is a link to the blog post.

After they finished that bit of learning/fun they decided to make shamrock men which I got the idea of from Allkids Network. Here is the pin

Here is what Luke's turned out like...

Someday I will remember to put the appropriate colored paper in the printer before I hit print MAYBE!! You would think after all of this time I would remember but nooooo. So my poor little ones had to wear out half of a colored pencil on these little guys. Good fine motor practice right?! I think his shamrock went a bit Frankenstein with the hair style and how about those teeth- Yikes! That is really what I love about giving them a general idea and then letting them make it their own. Luke is Mr. Detail and Sophie is just "get 'er done" girl. I did not get a pic of hers but it was just googly eyes and a smile.

They also colored a few pictures of leprechauns which Sophie taped to popsicle sticks to use as puppets. Lucas used his to put in his leprechaun trap that we made next. I can't take a pic of it unfortunately because my camera battery just died :( . We had corn dogs for lunch and that is what gave me the idea. Crazy right! Well as I was taking them out of the box to put in a freezer bag I was thinking about what I could use the box for...... I know a leprechaun trap. I know, I know.... the random thoughts of a frugal homeschool mom!

The best for last (only because I can eat them), shamrock cookies.

I let the kids roll out the balls and arrange them in clusters of 3 on the baking sheets. Luke decided after they were finished that we forgot the stems but I told him they would be just fine without them. Once again... details, details. We have a cookie cutter we could have used but this seemed much more fun for the kids.

There you have it. Our green day is complete. Thanks to Pinterest tomorrow may be full of green fun too!  I have a lot more ideas to get through.

Julie