These past few weeks we have been celebrating all things Irish and green. With our new friend Silly McWily the Leprechaun stopping in to play tricks on us our friends have been very excited about the upcoming holiday. To celebrate we have been doing different St. Patrick’s themed crafts and activities throughout the past two weeks and then had a celebration this past Friday the 16th. Below are some of the crafts and activities we did with our friends here at The Toad.
Above is our March Welcome board, beautifully decorated in green and gold.
Above is one of the activities that was done with our 2’s and 3’s where they were asked what they would do if they caught Silly McWilly and found his pot of gold. We also talked about Ireland and how Silly McWilly lives there.
Above is one of the crafts that was done where they glued gold coins and shamrocks to their pot of gold, and then attached rainbow streamers to the top of their pot.
We also made lucky four leaf clovers with our hand prints, there were lots of giggles as some of our friends realized that painting their hands was quite ticklish!
Above is another craft that was done with our 2’s and 3’s where they glued pieces of tissue paper to make a rainbow leading to their pot of gold. They were then asked why they though they were lucky, and their answers were written on a shamrock and glued to their pot.
We also had some science experiments to celebrate St. Patrick’s day. Above is the beginning of our walking water rainbow experiment we did. This is done by placing six cups of the same size close together in a circle. Then fill up three cups 3/4 of the way with water and put red food coloring in one, blue food coloring in the second and yellow food coloring in the third, with an empty cup in-between each (like the picture above). Then paper towel strips were folded and cut to hang into one cup with water and one that was left empty (making sure the paper towel touched the bottom of each cup). They were then left to do their “magic”.
The above photos were taken an hour and a half after we started the experiment. As you can see the water had already started “walking” through the paper towel and dripping into the empty cups to make the secondary colors (green, orange, and violet).
This is the final experiment after it was left overnight. As can be seen in the above picture the water mixed perfectly to make our secondary colors and each cup ended up having about the same amount of water in each.
It also wouldn’t be a St. Patricks Day celebration if we never tried to catch a Leprechaun! We have been planning out different traps for a couple weeks with our friends to try and catch Silly McWilly, the Leprechaun who’s been visiting The Spotted Toad to play tricks. Above was the trap that our preschool group made the day before St. Patrick’s Day to try and catch Silly McWilly!
This is the Leprechaun trap that our after school group made upstairs to try and catch Silly McWilly… they even had a trail of glitter going all the way downstairs!
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