Happy St. Patrick's Day

Maybe you are looking for some last minute St. Patrick's Day activities to do with your kids today. I have just the right solution for you! Below, I will post two easy activities, with supplies that you will be able to find around your house in just few minutes, and that your kids will love!

COLOR A RAINBOW

In this activity kids will color rice using food coloring and ziplock bags!

Pour some rice into ziplock bags (the more the better, so later you have enough for the kids to dig in for treasure). Have them pick their food coloring colors. 

Then have them add some drops to the rice in the ziplock bag. It depends how much rice you have - if you have lots of it, put more food coloring and the other way around. Also, you can make purple and orange by putting in two colors together. 

Close the ziplock bag and have the kids spread the food coloring all over by gently playing with the bag.

And here is the result. Isn't it just beautiful? We used brown rice and it still colored nicely! 

...and more RAINBOW

You will need pipe cleaners in the rainbow colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple; and a piece of styrofoam.

Have the kids put one end of the pipe cleaner into the styrofoam, bend it, and put the other end in. Follow the rainbow color pattern.

Here is the final product!

Have a fun St. Patrick's Day celebration!

St. Patrick's Day Basket

For St. Patrick's Day fun project, I put together "a green basket" full of green art supplies. here is a look inside the basket:

We have: markers, pencils, crayons, scissors, ribbon, glue stick, foam shamrocks, feathers, buttons, lace, popsicle sticks, tissue paper.

I drew Leprechaun head on a card stock paper and let them decorate it with our basket supplies. This is B at work.

And here are our two Leprechauns for St. Patrick's Day decoration.

Shamrock door hanger

The kids were begging for a St. Patrick's Day art project today. I realized we don't have any door decoration for this holiday and so an idea came to me. Just like for our Valentine's Day door decor, I cut out a shape of a shamrock from a cereal box (great recycling) and the kids decorated it with pom-poms. 

Here is what you need:

cardboard or cereal box for the shape

green and white pom-poms

tacky glue

pipe cleaner

tape

ribbon

stapler

Kids had a blast gluing the pom-poms onto the shamrock.

Here is the almost final product!

I stapled the ribbon to the back of the shamrock and taped the pipe cleaner.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!