"Learn Your Colors" St. Patty's Day Activity

To do this activity, you will need:

• paper plates
• each color of the rainbow streamers (or ribbon, or even colored construction paper would work)
• glue
• cotton balls
• stapler

First, cut the paper plate in half. Have your child glue cotton balls all over the paper plate (this is the cloud). Then, cut each of the colored streamers the same length. I had the kids sit in a circle with their  "cloud" and their streamers. I told them that we had to put the rainbows together in order. I would then say - "find your red streamer"...... they would bring up the red streamer with their cloud and I would staple it on there. They would sit back down and I would say - "find your orange streamer", etc. until the rainbow was complete. It was a great craft activity that incorporated the holiday and also helped them work on color recognition!

St. Patrick's Day Rainbow Project for Kids

Grea activity to do with the kiddos around St. Patrick's Day! I used crayons to make a rainbow on paper. Then, I took my circle hole punch and punched out circles from colored paper for each color of the rainbow (this takes a little while). Then, I had the kids glue the circles to the correspoding color on the rainbow I drew. At the end, we glued cotton balls to the ends of the rainbows for clouds. This is a great activity to work on fine motor skills and also finding and identifying colors! And what kid doesn't love to make rainbows!

 

 

 

Rainbow Caterpillar Behavior Chart

I wanted to come up with a "behavior chart" this summer for the kids. I thought a rainbow caterpillar would be cute. I cut out circles of each color of the rainbow. I made his head white. Each morning, I will have a trivia question for the kids to answer and then they also have to find our "Benny the Bee" (something I started last summer that they keep begging to bring back. I just colored a picture of a bee and I hide him around the house each night. Then, each morning they find him). When they have done both of these things, they need to put their clothes pin (they will each have a clothes pin with their name on it) on the caterpillars head (start). This is where they will start each day and depending on how they behave, they will move their clothes pin accordingly.

This is what I made the colors represent:

White = Start
Red = STOP! This means they have not had a good day at all
Orange = WARNING!
Yellow = Slow Down
Green = Your headed in the right direction
Blue = Keep up the great work
Purple = WOW! You are doing fabulous!
Pink = OUTSTANDING!

I like this idea because it gives the kids a "visual" on how they are doing. They will want to work hard to watch their pin climb the caterpillar.

It is a magnetic wall under the caterpillar and Mr. Potato Head has invaded that space at the moment!