St. Patrick’s Day Shelf Work.

With St. Patrick’s Day this week, I took some time to swap out some of our activities for more holiday-themed materials. First up, these are our shelves focused on fine motor and Practical Life (mostly.) 

Top to bottom:

1. Children’s book

2. Box with themed-stickers for decorating

3. Spooning pom-poms

4. Sheep bank with coins 

5. Grading shamrocks, large to small

6. 1:1 correspondence with coins

Top-bottom:

1. Pouring

2. Sink and Float

3. Squeezing, clothespins on a container

4. Tonging shamrocks

5. Wooden rainbow

6. Coloring

I’ve also included a cultural basket about Ireland on our shelves. Cultural baskets are a way to introduce a place to a child: the people who live there, the animals and plant life present, the holidays that are celebrated, facts about the country/continent (population, leader, currency, landmarks.) And of course, the flag!

Inside our cultural basket I included some printables you can find here. I also included some of our family scrapbooks from our visit to Ireland. My kids are enjoying looking at them so much and they are great conversation starters! I added a travel book about Ireland because it has great photos. I also included some left over Euros and some small items I purchased from our time there — pitchers, a sheep bank, an Irish flute, keychains, postcards, and our family shield. 

Do you have any St. Patrick’s Day activities on your shelves?