St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day

Preschool Lesson Plans
Kids R Learning
March Preschool Curriculum – Week 2
Color Green – Shape Triangle
Letter T – Number 9
St. Patrick’s Day

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We have a full week of St. Patrick’s Day preschool activities in our March curriculum lesson plans. Super fun and affordable you can purchase the entire month for only $15.00! Click here to view

Circle Time
Free Shamrock Game
For St. Patrick’s Day

Shamrock Game {Free Download}

Five Shamrocks & Rhyme
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Directions: Download and print out the six shamrocks above onto heavy paper, color them different colors, make sure one is green and cut them out.

To begin to play the game have the children sit in a circle.

One player sits in the middle of the circle; this player is the leprechaun. The leprechaun starts the game by passing the six shamrocks out. The leprechaun then closes his/her eyes and keeps them closed while the shamrocks are being passed by the children around the circle that they are sitting in.

After the shamrocks have been passed for a few seconds, the leprechaun shouts, "Shamrock!" and opens his/her eyes. The players holding the shamrocks will take turns holding up their shamrock and everyone will yell out what color shamrock they are holding up, the child with the green shamrock is the winner of this round, you can change the color each time so the children don’t know which color is going to be the winner.

Now the winner gets to be the leprechaun for the next game. Continue playing until each child has had a turn at being the leprechaun.

Fun game to play on St. Patrick’s Day or if you are going to have a party this would be the perfect time to play this game!

St. Patrick’s Day Book
Leprechaun Story
Printable book

Bunny, bunny, what do you see? {PDF File}

St. Patricks Day Story
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Bunny, bunny, what do you see? I see a green hat. That's what I see.

This cute printable story is fun for the kids to try and guess what the bunny is describing. This is a cute story for St. Patrick’s Day designed for toddlers, preschool & prek kids!

If you are purchasing our March preschool curriculum this book is included in our curriculum as a printable book.

St. Patrick’s Day Rhyme
Five Green Shamrocks
Felt Board Rhyme

Five Green Shamrocks
Felt Board Rhyme

Five Shamrocks & Rhyme
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Five green shamrocks growing by my door
Little bunny ate one so now there are four.

Four green shamrocks hiding behind a tree.
Little bunny ate one so now there are three.

Three green shamrocks playing peek-a-boo
Little bunny ate one so now there are two.

Two green shamrocks sitting in the sun,
Little bunny ate one so now there is one.

One green shamrock laying in the sun.
Little bunny ate one so now there are none.

This is a fun flannel board rhyme. You will need five shamrocks and a felt board. Provide each of the children with five shamrock puppets {from art time today}. Have the children put one shamrock down and count the shamrocks that are left after the bunny eats one.

Our lesson plans include a song or rhyme each day {5 days per week}.

St. Patrick’s Day
Craft
Shamrock Puppets

St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Puppet

St. Patricks Day Craft
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St. Patrick’s Day Craft for Shamrock Puppets

You will need five for each child. These will be used with the song above.

Shamrock puppet directions: Print out five shamrocks per child. Have the children color their shamrocks and then teacher will attach them to jumbo craft sticks {older children} or toilet paper rolls {younger children}

Have the children use their shamrock puppets with song above.

Fun and simple crafts that engage the children and help them to focus on the theme that they are learning about each week.

St. Patrick’s Day
Math Game
Help The Leprechaun

Math Game For St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patricks Day Math
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Help The Leprechaun Find The Gold for St. Patrick’s Day!

There are two ways to play.

Math Game 1: Print out one page per child.

Have the children take turns shaking a cube die and putting that many piece of gold onto their square grid on the game board, the first person to collect all 10 pieces of gold wins!

Math Game 2: Print out one page and have the children take turns shaking a cube die. If the child shakes a five then he/she will put five pieces of gold onto the square grid on the game board. Continue until everyone has had at least one turn.

Our March preschool curriculum includes 4 weeks of lesson plans which includes circle time, story time, song or rhyme, pre reading, math, science, gross motor movement & a special activity each day {5 days per week}.

St. Patrick’s Day Science
Sorting Lucky Charms
& Tasting Too!

Sorting Lucky Charms

St. Patricks Day Science
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The moon goes here and the heart goes here and ha ha the pot of gold goes in my mouth!

Print out one Lucky Charms sorting mat per child and lamanate so you can wash these before giving the children cereal to sort on them.

Give each of the children a big handful of cereal and have them sort the cereal onto their Lucky Charms sorting mat, have them place the cereal into the bowl picture and the mashmallows onto the mat by which item it is, the moons will go into the circle that has a moon on it, the hearts will go into the circle with the heart on it, etc.

During science time today the kids will taste the Lucky Charms too to see if the moons taste different than the hearts.

This is a fun flannel board rhyme. You will need five shamrocks and a felt board. Provide each of the children with five shamrock puppets {from art time today}. Have the children put one shamrock down and count the shamrocks that are left after the bunny eats one.

Fruit loops make a great learning tool kids can sort them, make patterns with them, count them and eat them, Yum Yum!

Lucky charms make a great learning tool kids can sort them, make patterns with them, count them and eat them, Yum Yum!

St. Patrick’s Day
Gross Motor
The Leprechaun Says Game

Larry Leprechaun Says Game

Larry Leprechaun Says {played like simon says but with a leprechaun instead}

How To Play: Played like Simon Says.

The teacher will say Larry Leprechaun or Larry Leprechaun.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says wiggle your fingers". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says swim around". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says fly like a bird". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says act like a cat". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says stomp around like a bear". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Larry Leprechaun says turn around and clap your hands". The children will wiggle their fingers.

Teacher will say "Mess up your hair". If anyone does this movement, teacher will say, ut oh, Larry Leprechaun didn't say that!

With young children we don't have them sit out if they get caught doing the movement when Larry Leprechaun did not say to do it, we just continue the game until the children lose interest.

This is a fun gross motor movement game to play with young children on St. Patrick’s Day.

March Preschool Curriculum Lesson Plans – View Below.

March Preschool Curriculum