Gotta love a theme! This week we did some St. Patrick's Day activities with Juniper, who was 20 months.
St Patrick's Shape Tracing (
print here). This was the first time I introduced tracing shapes, so she definitely needed my help. Of course, she then wanted to do it on her own. (We used
dry erase crayons on a
dry erase center. We've had it since my oldest and it is much easier than the sleeves at this age.)
Afterwards, we did some line tracing with her bunny (
print here). I should have done this before the shapes, but I had lost our old copy and had forgotten to print it.
Rainbow colored
balance pods and
activity rings were a huge hit! We did some matching, she did some balancing and both younger kids did lots of playing.
Pulling jumbo pickup sticks out of a basket.
We tried this cute Roll and Cover printable from Totschooling. She did not fully "get" the idea of rolling the die and then matching the number. She did a few and then lost interest. We will try again next year. Playdough setup was just a dray with some cookie cutters, some shamrock buttons,
gold gems and gold coins.
I printed a shamrock onto
a blank transparency and gave her a bunch of green translucent manipulatives.
I let her use some chunky brushes to paint a bunch of green onto big paper. Then I cut it out into shamrocks. She seems to love painting.
To work on quantities, I set out this matching activity. I had planned on using
gold gems, she decided to use pink magnets instead.
St Patrick's Day Sensory bin had various colors of green rice and pasta,
gold gems, gold coins and little
mini cauldrons.