Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2014! By: Siobhan

Happy Saint Patrick's Day to all of Alma Mater's Readers :) 

I found a lot of really neat Saint Patrick's day craft ideas and decided to try out some of them with the kids. 

Rus is in 3rd grade, so he is above Tert and Filia's level. Here are some projects I did with him:

 First we found a page telling all about Saint Patrick's life. Rus read it and made a comic strip story of it. He also put the events of Saint Patrick's life in order.

Rus's Comic Strip

Rus also did a Saint Patrick's Day 'Find the Missing Letters' Worksheet

Tert is in Kindergarten. He, Rus and Filia did a leaping leprechaun craft made with just paper, brads and markers.

I found the pattern online and had them color it. Then I poked holes into the pattern (they show you where to poke them) and stuck some small brads in. 

Filia's Leprechaun 

Tert's Leprechaun

For Filia (Pre-K) I found some fun little activities like pre-writing.

 I printed out a matching page for Tert, but he completed it very quickly.  This one was really more for Filia :)

 Filia also colored this page

 Finally, I did a rainbow craft with them. I just cut little black pots out of construction paper and wrote 'Happy Saint Patrick's Day' on them. Then I helped them find the colors they needed.

 They made one line for each color and then filled in the spaces between the colors.

We also put some three leaf clovers and cotton ball clouds on the drawings.

 For supper Mom made some delicious corned beef and cabbage with rolls

And, of course, we had homemade shamrock shakes!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!