1. We painted a big rainbow to put up in our kitchen. I drew and cut each section then had the boys paint them...they love to paint. The next day, I had Damon cut out gold circles from scrapbook paper...he did a pretty fabulous job. I cut out the pot of gold. Then another day Damon used a shaving cream/glue mixture and played and spread it all over a blue piece of construction paper to make our cloud. It sure does brighten up our kitchen!
2. I found this wonderful blog that provides free "Mommy School" unit plans every so often. I mostly like the songs, but find a few activities and ideas to use with the boys. I went with her "G is for Green" and looked on No Time for Flashcards for "G" ideas. Tommy was hilarious, he would not color his "G" green. Instead, he turned the paper over and covered it with green markers...so I drew the "G" afterwards:) Then they glued green Easter grass on it. The other day Damon colored another "G" green and used glitter glue to decorate it. It has been nice to have some direction of things to do with the boys. I am so grateful for the internet and the generous people that post ideas online...it doesn't take long to find a quick activity for the boys!
3. Math game. I was desperate one day and remembered a game my Grandma and Grandpa made for all the cousins...a piece of wood covered in holes. You roll the dice and move your nail the correct number of holes. I think the cousins named it Jumangi! I decided to try it with the boys. I got some green scraps of paper and drew a bunch of dots in rows. We took turns rolling dice and covering the dots with tiny St. Patrick's Day stickers. Damon loved it (we've played it many times since). Tommy just wanted to play with the dice! I have since found similar games on lots of different blogs...go me!
4. Marshmallow rainbows. I found this idea on No Time For Flahcards too. I poured colored marshmallows into a bowl and the boys had to sort them into smaller bowls by color. They really enjoyed this, plus they could eat a few. Tommy kept saying, "I eat dem?!" I cut a paper plate in half and glued an arch and one color at a time, they glued their marshmallows on. Tommy did surprisingly well (his looked more perfect than his brother's). They were supposed to glue 5 then eat one...but by the end I didn't care. They wanted to eat the left over marshmallows, so we called it a "rainbow" and put in some Cheerios (gold) and raisins (pot)...Damon thought it was the best snack ever!
5. Sensory tub (another No Time for Flashcards idea). I poured dried split peas (green) into two buckets (one for each boy) then put 10 pieces of "gold". I wrote numbers 1-10 on a piece of paper then let them hunt for their gold with measuring cups and spoons. They had to put the gold on the numbers. They loved it, then just played for awhile. Some little peas escaped, but they just swept up.
6. We used Lucky Charms cereal and graphed the marshmallows. I had a difficult time finding a graph to print off...I ended up google-ing it and finally found one. It was really fun to pick out marshmallows and put them in the right box...Tommy didn't do too bad either. Then we ate our cereal!
7. We went to Story Time at the library and made a fun craft. Take a bell pepper and cut it so you can see the whole diameter...it looks like a shamrock or 4-leaf clover! We dipped them in paint and stamped them on paper. Other kids' shamrocks looked beautiful, my boys were a little messy and covered 5 pieces of paper! We hung them up for a clover field underneath our rainbow.
8. Sunday evening we made green shamrock cookies with our cookie press. Last year I tried a recipe with lime jello...it was too much for me, so this year we just put green food coloring in and used green sprinkles. For some reason I love those little cookies...no frosting on them, just plain...and you can just pop them in your mouth. Pretty tasty.
9. Of course we had to change our calendar. I found some St. Patrick's day napkins in my closet, so I cut the shamrocks out and laminated them...31 of them! We cut construction paper for the border and the boys covered it in stickers.
10. Tomorrow we plan on eating green jello and Pistachio Pudding Dessert. Damon really wants a fruit rainbow too.
1 comment:
so amy--we did the spilt peas too. I put 10 quarters in there and all 4 of my kids had a great time finding and naming the quarters (the only name I heard was "shiny") We also make rainbow cupcakes from family fun last year. they were so cute and yummy! thanks for all your ideas!
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