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St. Patrick’s Day Resources

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:

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.
Games
  • 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.
Information Links
  • Learn about Hurling HERE.
  • All about the Bodhran HERE.
  • All about the Uilleann HERE.
  • Celtic Harp history HERE.
  • Tin whistle HERE.
  • 10 inventions by Irish individuals 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.

This entry was posted on 18/03/2013, in Uncategorized. 6 Comments

Mid Week Visitors

For all resource links please check out the entry “Saint Patrick’s Day Resources“.

March 13-14

While I do not have a spring break with the kids schoolwise, it WAS school break this week for the Novak boys. What to do what to do? Well, we pushed on through and got our schoolwork accomplished in the morning so that we could instead spend the afternoon enjoying their company! Starting at McDonald’s with lunch! 9 kids, Darcy, myself and KEN! We thought someone may have even tried to take a picture but it is hard to tell with a cell phone (iPhone). We always get such strange looks like Ken must be the father to all the kids and with both of us! So much fun though. And not half bad food.

Double Date with the big boys

Then back to our house (for the first time in years for the Novaks… I really wish Andy could have had the day off… but we are very lucky to have days when Ken works from home.). After all, there was new coverage to watch while the Catholic Church announced their new Pope (no we are NOT Catholic but history was made anyway and well worth watching and discussing with Anthony and Andrew… first non- European Pope after all).

Sitting on burgers

Ken loaded up what electronics could run Minecraft and let the big boys go with it.

Watching Anthony (Zander)

The other kids played outside, played in the 3 seasons porch, with the bug set…

Emanuel and Aidan

Monopoly…

Trinity and Alex

They really did keep busy and no one was excited to leave when they had to go to to get Andrew to his appointment.

We did manage a few completions… our book of the day was Fiona’s Luck by Teresa Bateman.

Fiona’s Luck

Thursday was back to full days… or at least that was the plan. Until the weather worked miracles and the snow, I am told, was perfect for playing in. So we did a 3/4 day and the 4 big kids had their fun in the sun. This was not so nice on the roads in the morning or the potential for ice in the evening but for the kids – PERFECT!

Up the tree

In the backyard

We finished our hand print rainbow. I was so proud of the kids. I did nothing but show them the picture and trace out Trinity’s hand… they did the rest! 4 hands traced for patterns, colours dealt with AND assembled! We did not have that much orange paper around so we had to make do. I am very happy with the end result!

Rainbow… esque?

It really was a crafting day with Perler beads the central focus. After all, we had to make some St. Patrick’s Day themed pieces.

We are pretty well ready for poster assembly. Though we had a book to cover too: It’s St. Patrick’s Day, Dear Dragon by Margaret Hillert

The book

Sunshine, snow and St. Patrick’s Day studies… not bad not bad!

Reading to the ponies