Mar
St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow in a Jar
I was trying to make a St. Patrick’s Day rainbow in a jar today when my mom came over to watch Hunter while I went to volunteer in Hailey’s class. It was not working out the way I wanted it to. So, I told her what I was trying to do. When I got home it looked exactly like I was hoping it would 🙂
On the bottom of the jar there are chocolate gold coins, then all the colors of the rainbow using M&Ms. On the top is marshmallows to represent a cloud. I love how it turned out!!
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Mar
Puffy Paint Shamrock
Puffy Paint is so much fun! Messy- yes, but worth the fun!
You need glue, green paint and shaving cream. We also had a paper plate to mix everything on and a shamrock shape. I used a cereal box to cut out the shamrock so that it would be a little sturdier.
Mix the shaving cream, glue and paint. I have also used food coloring to color the puffy paint, but it stains the skin and takes a while to come off, so I prefer to use paint.
Mix it all together.
Let the fun begin 🙂
Yay! Hunter loved it!!
Hailey worked very carefully on her shamrock.
Hunter painted his tummy while I was taking a picture of Hailey’s work.
Hailey’s completed shamrock. When it dries the paint stays puffy and it so neat!
Hunter’s completed shamrock… He played with his paint so much that it lost its puffiness, which is fine because he had fun. But if you want it to stay puffy don’t play with it too much.
See the rest of our St. Patrick’s Day activities that we have done.
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Mar
Collage Shamrock
Since Saint Patrick’s Day is only a few days away and because Hunter is learning the color green, I thought it would be fun to make a shamrock using all different green collage materials.
First I gathered our supplies- glue, shamrock shaped paper and all the green things I could find.
Next they used the do-a-dot markers to decorate the shamrock.
Add on some green collage materials. Hunter loved this! I put the glue on his shamrock and then he put the pieces on. He kept picking them up and moving them around. This kept his attention for quite a while.
Hailey worked for a long time on hers too, she had to position everything just right.
Hailey’s completed shamrock.
Hunter’s completed shamrock.
Mar
End of the Rainbow
Hailey has been really sick with the flu this week 🙁 She is on day 5 of a fever and a horrible cough. Yesterday when she was feeling good for a little while she said she wanted to do a craft, so we decided to do this pretty simple one.
You will need clear contact paper, some sparkly yellow glitter glue, white paper, black paper, tissue paper in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. (And you may need some yellow paper too if your glitter glue turns out like ours did.)
I cut the contact paper in an arc shape, big enough for the rainbow and for a pot of gold and cloud to fit at the ends of the rainbow.
Hailey put little gold circles on the top of pot to represent the gold.
She put the pot of gold on the contact paper and then started the rainbow.
Adding some more ripped up tissue paper.
The completed rainbow with the pot of gold at the end. Except you can’t actually see the gold.
So we added some yellow paper coins instead.
See our other fun Saint Patrick’s day ideas.
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