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.

We also experimented with making rainbow word families.

Some other festive activities are baking soda and vinegar mixtures with drops of food coloring (it fizzes!) and of course, making green slime.

We had such a fun week!