More Shamrock Fun

Here are a couple of activities that we did with shamrocks:

We wanted to try making a crystal shamrock and thought it would be fun if we could make the crystals green.  I boiled 3 cups of water and we added 1/4 cup of borax (you can find it in the laundry aisle).  We used a green piece of water coloring to turn the water green because we were all out of green food coloring.

Then we used white pipe cleaners and shaped them (as well as we could) like shamrocks.  We tied them to a pencil and put them in the borax/water mixture.  I put it where it would not be disturbed and left it until the next day.

The crystal shamrock.  It did not end up looking very green (or a whole lot like a shamrock!), but it was fun anyways.

Then we made another shamrock.

Cut up some yarn- we used 2 different colors of green.

Then I mixed 1/2 cup of water and 1/4 cup of corn starch.  Put it on the stove and slowly heat it.  It starts out looking kind of milky and then it gets thick very quickly.  Once it is thick, remove it from the heat.

Mix your yarn into the glue mixture.

Ideally we would have used a shamrock shaped cookie cutter, but I could not find one anywhere.  So I used a sponge and did my best to cut out a shamrock shape.  Take the yarn and wipe the excess glue off using your fingers (this part is messy so be ready with some paper towels!).  Press into your shamrock shape.  I have it laying on wax paper.  Then I took another piece of wax paper to hold on the yarn while I removed the sponge.

Let it dry over night.

Our finished shamrock shape.

Cute Leprechaun

I saw this cute paper plate leprechaun over at Moments of Mommyhood and decided we should make it too.

First Hailey painted a paper plate.

Once the paint was dry she put on some eyes, nose and a mouth.  Then she added a beard.

Hailey added a gold buckle to the hat.

Our finished leprechaun

A few other things:

Hailey also did a little cutting practice using this printable from Musings of Me.

Hailey used her do-a-dot markers to make a rainbow.

After she made the rainbow she counted how many dots there were of each color and wrote the numbers.  Then she decided that red had the most.

Shamrock Fun

This was definitely a project that was more about the process than the product.

I gave Hailey a shamrock shape and had her put glue all over it, however she wanted it.

Then we covered the glue with salt.

Then Hailey dipped a paint brush into green food coloring and touched it to the salt.  The green spread to all the areas near by.

Then she took the bottle of food coloring and put drops onto the salt.  It was really neat to watch it spread very quickly the areas around it.

The finished shamrock.  I definitely want to try this again but with a variety of colors of food coloring, allowing the colors to run together and mix.

We also did this counting activity from Musings of Me– Hailey had to count and then put the clothespin on the correct number.

Letter of the Week- Letter L

Last week Hailey learned all about the letter L.  Here are the activities that we did:

Hailey made this L shaped Lion from Totally Tots.

Hailey made these ladybugs using her finger print.  She then added some dots and antenna.

She completed this letter hunt worksheet from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

One of Hailey’s favorite things to do is play on Starfall.  She did the letter L activities and reviewed the other letters she has learned.  Then she played some of the other games.  She does so well navigating her way around the site.

Hailey used her do-a-dot markers to do this letter l page from Confessions of a Homeschooler.

For each letter we do Hailey colors vocabulary words, cuts them out, glues them onto index cards and we turn it into a little book.

Hailey glued the letters we have done so far with RRSP onto a piece of cardstock.  Then to review all of the letters we sang this song to the tune of “Do You Know the Muffin Man?”
Oh do you see the letter [L]
the letter [L]
the letter [L]
Oh do you see the letter [L]
it says [lll lll lll]

Oh yes I see the letter [L]
the letter [L]
the letter [L]
Oh yes I see the letter [L]
it says [lll lll lll]

I am really working on getting Hailey to be able match her lowercase letters with the uppercase.  She loved this matching puzzle from Homeschool Creations.

This is also from Homeschool Creations- and Hailey enjoys forming her letters using playdough on these printables.

We are also doing RRSP.  Here are the activities Hailey did from there:

Here is the verse of the week for the letter L.  I didn’t really think Hailey would be able to memorize this verse, I thought it was too long.  But she really shocked me and learned it very quickly!

Hailey pointing to her letter L vocab words as I called them out.

Hailey enjoys this part of the power point the most- she wants to be able to guess which word will be coming up next.

Doing some letter L writing.

Reading her “I See” book and pointing to “see” which was her sight word of the week.

Hailey had to cut her verse and then tape it together.

She was excited to see that her verse was as tall as she is.

Working on her candle craft that she had to color, cut out and glue.

Other stuff:

Practicing shapes with printables from 1+1+1=1.

Doing a page for the number 5 in her Disney workbook.

Playing with puzzles to practice colors and shapes.