Green Rice Shamrocks
Color rice by shaking it in a clear plastic bag with several drops of green food coloring and several drops of rubbing alcohol. Spread the rice on paper towels to dry. Help your child brush diluted glue onto a shamrock shape cut from white poster-board. Then sprinkle green rice all over the glue.
You don't have to be Irish to have fun making these!
You will need stones, glitter, tacky glue and gemstones.
Wash and dry your stones. Coat with tacky glue. Sprinkle with glitter and glue on rhinestones.
1. Have the children all wear green on St. Patrick's Day.
2. Sponge paint with green shamrock sponges, gold coin sponges, black pots.
3. Borrow St. Patrick's Books and Irish music from library.
4. Teach children how to dance an Irish Jig.
5. Make and eat green Jell-O (use jigglers recipe and shamrock cookie cutters).
6. Make green play dough.
7. Use green food coloring in milk or make green milkshakes with peppermint or mint chocolate chip ice cream.
8. Use gold coins in the sandbox or sand table.
Rainbow finger painting Have the children dip their fingers into finger paint... each finger in a different color. Then the children can move their fingers across a piece of finger paint paper to make a rainbow.
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