So with the simplicity of a single entry for all the Platypus and Dr. Seuss resources I figure why not continue the trend? Even if it is not overly helpful to the rest of the world it means I can come back next year and either avoid repeats or recover the treasures with ease. So here goes:
Books:
- Shannon and the World’s Tallest Leprechaun by Sean Callahan
- St. Patrick’s Day by Mari C. Schuh
- The St. Patrick’s Day Shillelagh by Janet Nolan (you can find a clear dfinition and examples of some Shillelaghs HERE and pronounciation HERE.)
- Lindsay the Luck Fairy from the Rainbow Magic series by Daisy Meadows
- A Fine St. Patrick’s Day by Susan Wojciechowski
- St. Patrick’s Day by Anne Rockwell
- St. Patrick’s Day by Gail Gibbons
- Patrick Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie dePaola
- Fiona’s Luck by Teresa Bateman
- It’s St. Patrick’s Day, Dear Dragon by Margaret Hillert
- Sally Go Round the Stars by Sarah Webb and Claire Ranson (Favourite Rhymes from an Irish Childhood)
- Julie Andrews’ Treasury for all Seasons (Poems and Songs to Celebrate the Year) selected by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton
- Saint Patrick and the Peddler by Margaret Hodges (we did not pick this book up until AFTER our unit was done, but it was an amazing story with beautiful pictures)
Worksheets
- A fun leprechaun and pot of gold dot to dot HERE.
- St. Patrick’s Day themed addition, where you have to choose the two numbers out of 4 that make the sum HERE.
- St. Patrick the person worksheet HERE.
- Christian St. Patrick’s Day worksheets and crafts HERE.
- St. Patrick’s Day word problems (math) HERE.
- Story pages HERE.
- Word search with fun facts HERE.
- Numbers 1-17 dot to dot HERE.
- Rainbow maze HERE.
Crafts
- Templates for pots and shamrocks HERE.
- St. Patrick’s Day Man craft HERE.
- Leprechaun paperdolls HERE.
- Leaping Leprechaun craft HERE.
- Fingerprint Pot ‘O Gold with printable template HERE.
- How to Draw a Pot of Gold HERE.
- Maybe not for the kids, but for the crochet whizz… a Leprechaun hat thanks to CrochetSpot HERE.
- Shamrock Trinity Craft with a crash course on making something look plaid HERE.
- Fuse beads/Perler beads patterns HERE.
- Handprint rainbow HERE.
- Make a leprechaun trap HERE. We used coloured instead of plain sticks… they were cheaper!!
General Printables
- St. Patrick’s Day Fun Facts HERE.
- Irish Dancer colouring page. Trinity cut her flag away to just save the dancer HERE.
- Irish flag HERE.
- Irish bookmarks HERE.
- Little book of Irish slang HERE.
- Map of Ireland HERE.
- Irish American founding fathers (Irish men who were involved in the signing of the constitution, information and word scramble) HERE.
- The Ghillie Girls Irish dancers. We needed something all the kids could get in on and with multiple dancers this was perfect HERE.
- Design an Irish Dancer. The picture is the top left one of the page list HERE. Trinity loved this one, she made herself into a dancer!
- Colour an Irish Harp HERE.
- Colour an Irish Princess HERE.
- Colour a picture all about Hurling a sport rather specific to Ireland HERE.
- Fun themed labels for gifts by A Cupcake for the Teacher HERE.
- Celtic Mandala HERE.
- The Pot of Gold Game, a basic counting game with dice you cut out and assemble HERE.
- Go Over the Rainbow for St. Patrick HERE.
Of course we had to scour youTube for some videos to fit our theme! Here is a selection! Discover Ireland Long Version by Tourism Ireland…
Riverdance for some beautiful Irish dancing… AND a Facebook link HERE of a friend and her troupe as they warm up. Sadly the music playing is live and what they were practicing to was canned music we can’t hear but still… beautiful.
Our focus also fell on Irish instruments… the Bodhran…
The Uillean…
The tin whistle…
and the Celtic Harp…
We only watched the first in the series but there are THREE videos on Hurling to watch by Cokane1888 on youTube.
