St. Patrick's Day Shelf Work .

This week we embraced our inner Irish side and celebrated with all things green, and rainbows. The kids had a lot of fun with our themed shelves and a few impromptu St. Patrick’s Day activities. Here’s what some of these looked like:

The first few trays are typical Practical Life works: scooping and pouring. The first scooping activity is a simple one to one transferring activity and the second one has the added element of sorting by color. I bought the sheep pitchers in Ireland on our honeymoon in 2011 — way before kids. But they are perfect for Practical Life activities.

Next up, we have two squeezing activities: transferring shamrocks with tongs and clipping clothespin onto a box. The clothespins are sparkly and gold!

We also have out a cute sheep bank with some gold and green coins and then we have out our rainbow Lovevery Drop and Match Dot Catcher.

The color roll mat, egg/shape matching and the rainbow xylophone are some other activities that we had and fit into our theme!

On another shelf, I have some more activities that are a bit more complex. This could be either because they are multi-step, have the potential to get messy or because they’re a bit more academic in nature. These are available mostly for Lola.

Kinetic sand is one of those things that is loved but I always regret immediately. It is so messy! There’s also these fun play dough mats to create different shapes.

We also have out rainbow activities — a rainbow shape paired with dot markers, and strips of paper and a glue stick so that we can collaboratively make a paper chain!

For math, we have out an estimation jar — guess how many fruit loops are in the jar?! And also, lego task cards.

We also have some of our work from last year’s Europe continent box: a geography booklet, a booklet about Ireland, 3-part cards, animals that live in Europe… the list goes on.