St. Patrick's Activities
Below are some books to help with your St. Patrick's Day activities.
The list of activities is below.
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Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie dePaola
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St. Patrick's Day by Gail Gibbons
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Clever Tom and the Leprechaun by Linda Shute
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St. Patrick's Day Alphabet by Beverly Barras Vidrine
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A Leprechaun's St. Patrick's Day by Sarah Kirwan Blaze
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Mary McLean and the St. Patrick's Day Parade by Steven Kroll
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St. Patrick's Day (Best Holiday Books) by Dorothy Rhodes Freeman
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St. Patrick's Day in the Morning by Eve Bunting
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Hooray for St. Patrick's Day (Lift the Flap Book) by Joan Holub
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Mosaic Clovers
Trace a four-leaf clover onto green construction paper. Cut it out. Tear
up lots of shades of green tissue paper and construction paper. Glue
them onto your clover. Outline the clover with glue and sprinkle silver
glitter on it.
Potato Prints
Cut a potato in half. Cut out a design such as a pot (for a pot of
gold), a shamrock, or simple shapes. Dip the potato into paint, and put
the print on your paper.
Watercolor Rainbows
Have the students paint a rainbow and draw what they would like at the
end of their rainbow.
Estimate
Fill your Counting Jar with gold wrapped chocolates, or Rainbow
Skittles. Let everyone make an estimate and enjoy them together at the end.
Lucky Charms
Fill a bag with Lucky Charms for each student. Have them graph the
different kinds of marshmallows.
Leprechaun Sighting
Before your students come into school that morning, sprinkle some gold
glitter somewhere in the room. Have the students write in their journals
about the mysterious Leprechaun.
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