St. Patrick's Day Fun, Including A Guided Drawing Leprechaun Lesson!
This week I am going to share with you some fun things for March, including a St. Patrick’s Day leprechaun guided drawing lesson and a new free downloadable game. So buckle up, here we go!
Guided Drawing Leprechaun Lesson
I started drawing up the directions for this lesson while sitting on the plane from LAX to Columbia, on my way to SDE’s South Carolina Kindergarten Conference, and then finished it in Chicago at the IL ASCD PreK/K Conference! (Both conferences were GREAT, by the way!)
Since it has been a really long time since I had posted a guided drawing lesson freebie, I thought it would be a fun to post another timely one here. If you do this with your students, I would love it if you send me a photo of their completed pictures, or post one on Facebook or Pinterest and let me know that it is there!
My wonderful job share partner and my aide did this lesson with my little ones while I was gone this week and then sent me the pictures. Aren’t they cute? I wish I could have been in two places at once so that I could have done it all!
My aide told me that it would have been easier for them, though, if she had started them off with the right size of hat, because some of them started off with a very tiny hat, and that made it hard to continue. So you may want to lightly trace small square onto a piece of paper and xerox it for them ahead of time. Then just have them trace it with their marker or black crayon to get started, and you’ll be off!
Leprechaun Sight Word Game
I actually created this game in 2011, but didn’t quite get it finished in time to put it on my blog before St. Patrick’s Day! I promptly forgot all about it until someone on Facebook asked me where it was posted a few weeks ago, so I started looking. (We had been brainstorming rhymes for this game on my HeidiSongs Facebook page, and she remembered it from that!) Anyway, long story short, I couldn’t find it on my blog because I had never posted it! So here you go!
To prepare the game:
1. Duplicate the leprechaun cards. Write the sight words that you want to practice on the sign that the leprechaun is holding. Also copy the pot of gold that is on the instruction sheet. You may want to laminate it or cover it with clear packing tape to make it more sturdy, because these things tend to get quite wrinkly.
To play the game:
2. To play, have the children hide their eyes while you hide the pot of gold under any leprechaun’s picture. Then children all chant, “Leprechaun, leprechaun! Truth be told! Leprechaun, leprechaun! Where’s your gold?” The children may then take turns naming the word that they think the pot of gold is hiding under, and lifting that word to check. The game ends when someone finds the pot of gold under his or her word of choice. Then play again.
Shamrock Sight Word Surprise
If you didn’t see this fun little item in 2011, you might want to download it out and give it a try! It’s just a little water color resist with a sight word written in it with white crayon ahead of time! The children use water color paints to paint over the top of the picture, and then the sight word appears! Be sure to use a cheap white crayon to write the word, such as Roseart. The nice Crayola brand crayons tend to show up ahead of time and then the kids can see the word on the paper before they start painting. I wrote four different words on the papers and then mixed the papers up before putting them in the art center for the children. When the papers were dry, I used them to drill the kids on the sight words. Naturally, you’ll want to choose the words your kids need to work on the most. Click here to visit the blog where this download is posted. It is near the bottom of the post in section five.
Another idea, - Leprechaun Traps!⠀I stopped assigning this several years ago due to the wide discrepancy between those students who got LOTS of help at home, and those that got NONE (and brought in nothing.) It's hard on those little ones when they realize what their parents are NOT doing! Anyone else have this problem?
Check out my Pinterest board for more ideas!
Guided Drawing Leprechaun Lesson
I started drawing up the directions for this lesson while sitting on the plane from LAX to Columbia, on my way to SDE’s South Carolina Kindergarten Conference, and then finished it in Chicago at the IL ASCD PreK/K Conference! (Both conferences were GREAT, by the way!)
Since it has been a really long time since I had posted a guided drawing lesson freebie, I thought it would be a fun to post another timely one here. If you do this with your students, I would love it if you send me a photo of their completed pictures, or post one on Facebook or Pinterest and let me know that it is there!
My wonderful job share partner and my aide did this lesson with my little ones while I was gone this week and then sent me the pictures. Aren’t they cute? I wish I could have been in two places at once so that I could have done it all!
My aide told me that it would have been easier for them, though, if she had started them off with the right size of hat, because some of them started off with a very tiny hat, and that made it hard to continue. So you may want to lightly trace small square onto a piece of paper and xerox it for them ahead of time. Then just have them trace it with their marker or black crayon to get started, and you’ll be off!
Leprechaun Sight Word Game
I actually created this game in 2011, but didn’t quite get it finished in time to put it on my blog before St. Patrick’s Day! I promptly forgot all about it until someone on Facebook asked me where it was posted a few weeks ago, so I started looking. (We had been brainstorming rhymes for this game on my HeidiSongs Facebook page, and she remembered it from that!) Anyway, long story short, I couldn’t find it on my blog because I had never posted it! So here you go!
To prepare the game:
1. Duplicate the leprechaun cards. Write the sight words that you want to practice on the sign that the leprechaun is holding. Also copy the pot of gold that is on the instruction sheet. You may want to laminate it or cover it with clear packing tape to make it more sturdy, because these things tend to get quite wrinkly.
To play the game:
2. To play, have the children hide their eyes while you hide the pot of gold under any leprechaun’s picture. Then children all chant, “Leprechaun, leprechaun! Truth be told! Leprechaun, leprechaun! Where’s your gold?” The children may then take turns naming the word that they think the pot of gold is hiding under, and lifting that word to check. The game ends when someone finds the pot of gold under his or her word of choice. Then play again.
Shamrock Sight Word Surprise
If you didn’t see this fun little item in 2011, you might want to download it out and give it a try! It’s just a little water color resist with a sight word written in it with white crayon ahead of time! The children use water color paints to paint over the top of the picture, and then the sight word appears! Be sure to use a cheap white crayon to write the word, such as Roseart. The nice Crayola brand crayons tend to show up ahead of time and then the kids can see the word on the paper before they start painting. I wrote four different words on the papers and then mixed the papers up before putting them in the art center for the children. When the papers were dry, I used them to drill the kids on the sight words. Naturally, you’ll want to choose the words your kids need to work on the most. Click here to visit the blog where this download is posted. It is near the bottom of the post in section five.
Another idea, - Leprechaun Traps!⠀I stopped assigning this several years ago due to the wide discrepancy between those students who got LOTS of help at home, and those that got NONE (and brought in nothing.) It's hard on those little ones when they realize what their parents are NOT doing! Anyone else have this problem?
Check out my Pinterest board for more ideas!
As always, happy teaching!
Heidi :)
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