Handy Leprechauns
Supplies:
- Heavy paper-white or tan
- Paintbrushes
- Tempera paints in green, white and orange
- Black permanent markers
- Use brushes to paint a child’s four fingers orange, their lower palm white and their upper palm green.
- Press this print onto a piece of heavy white or tan paper.
- After the paint has dried, use a black marker to help the child draw on facial features.
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Looking for a Leprechaun Song
Sung to the tune of “The Muffin Man”Oh, Have you seen a leprechaun,
A leprechaun, a leprechaun?
Oh, have you seen a leprechaun
Who comes from Ireland?
Among the shamrocks he may hide
He may hide, he may hide.
Among the shamrocks he may hide
So catch him if you can!
Credit: Great Big Holiday Celebrations by Elizabeth McKinnon
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Rainbow Round Up
For this activity you will need a supply of crepe paper streamers in rainbow colors such as red, yellow, green, blue, orange and purple.
Cut streamers in two-three foot lengths. Give each child two different colored streamers. Have the children stand in a circle. When you call out a color, the children who have that color wave it into the center of the circle. If you call out “Rainbow” all the children wave their various colors at once._______________________________________________________________________
Gold Coin Snacks
Ingredients:
- Round snack crackers
- Banana slices
- Honey (in a squeeze bottle)
- Green decorator sugar
- Set out two plates with the crackers and bananas on each one.
- Direct the children to place a banana slice on top of a cracker.
- Help them to squeeze a little honey onto the banana, turning it gold.
- Assist them in sprinkling a little “lucky dust” (green sugar crystals) on their gold coin.
- Repeat until each child has made several coins.