St. Patrick's Week

I love Ireland and most/anything Irish.  Michael and I were planning to go to Ireland for our honeymoon but opted for some place a little warm because of the time of year we were going.  We're planning to go to Ireland for our 25 anniversary God willing.

This week for daycare we are learning all about Ireland and all things Irish since St. Patrick's Day is on Sunday.  We learned a little bit about the country, Shamrocks, Fairies, Leprechauns, and St. Patrick.  We did a lot of painting this week and they loved it.  I don't do a lot of painting normally because it can be enormously messy; ie Patrick paints everything but what he is suppose to be painting (the wall, the table, himself).  Here are our projects from this week along with pictures for future use.

Paint chip Ireland

You will need:
Outline of Ireland
Glue
Green paint color samples
Scissors

Print off outlines of Ireland.  Cut the paint samples into different shapes.  Glue the paint chips in the outline to make Ireland green.



Shamrock Cupcakes

You will need:
Frosting/decorations             Cake mix
Three marbles a cupcake   Cupcake wrappers

Mix cake mix like normal.  Place the paper cup in the muffin tin.  Place three marbles between the paper cup and the muffin tin to make a shamrock shape.  Pour in batter, bake, and decorate.

Toilet Paper Leprechaun (2 day project)

You will need:
Toilet paper roll                      Paint: Green, orange, and flesh
Green craft foam                    3 Orange and 1 black pipe cleaner
Hot glue gun and sticks

Paint a orange stripe about 1 inch around the roll about 1 inch from the top.  Paint the rest of the roll green.  Cut out a 2 inch circle from green foam with 3/4 inch circle cut from the middle.  Also cut a 4.5 inch by .5 inch rectangle from the green foam.  Curl 3 pipe cleaners around a pencil, they should be about 3-4 inches long.  Paint an oval for the face in the orange hair area and two small ovals for hands in the middle of the body.  Use one black pipe (I used 1/2 of one) to make feet, make two ovals.  Draw a face and add the foam rectangle to make arms.  Glue two curly pipe cleaners around the back in the orange hair area.  Add the last curly pipe cleaner to the face to make a beard and add the circle foam to the top for the brim of the Leprechauns had.  Add one black pipe cleaner to the bottom for feet.

Fairy Wings

You will need:
Cardboard              Paint
Tissue paper          Glitter/spangles
Glue                            Elastic

Trace and cut out wings from cardboard.  Cut out various shapes from inside the wings.  Paint the cardboard and allow to dry.  Add tissue paper behind each cut out and decorate with glitter and spangles.  Add elastic for arm to go through.

Pot of Gold

You will need:
Wood dowel ends "pot"      Black paint
Scrape tissue paper              Glue
Glitter                                       Gold spangles
Green ribbon or paint

Tightly pack the tissue paper into the wooden "pot".  Paint the pot black including the tissue paper at the top.  Add glue to the entire top and add glitter.  Once glitter is mostly dry add a few gold spangles to the top.  Decorate the pot with a ribbon or paint a shamrock on the side of the pot.