St. Patrick’s Day Program
Mar 19th, 2008 by Alicia
Jack’s Head Start teacher asked me to host a family fun night for the local Head Start families in our town and the next. I picked March 17, with the themes of St. Patrick’s Day, Spring and green. We had the program on Monday and it was lots of fun!
The agenda included:
- Bopping balloons with pantyhose/coat hanger paddles while waiting for everybody else to arrive.
- Having a circle time where I introduced myself and read the books “Splish, Splash, Spring!”, “There’s a Frog in the Bog” and “Knuffle Bunny.” The first was obviously about the theme, the second had to do with a green thing (a frog) and the last one is just really fun.
- Making leprochaun masks.
- Painting the kids’ hands to make handprint tulips on paper. (Stamp the hands and then have the children draw leaves and stems with a green crayon or marker.)
- Freeze dancing– I had traditional Irish songs playing and everybody danced crazily. I’d hit the pause button and they had to freeze as they were.
- Coloring and cutting out little finger puppets of leprochauns and clovers.
- Green food– broccoli, kiwi, celery, pea pods, green jello, green dip and juices, etc.
- Finding clovers– I hid construction paper clovers all over a large room. The kids had to run and find them and then bring them to a parent or sibling to read the instructions. They said things like slither like a snake, sing the abc song, hop backwards 5 times and tell me something that starts with a B.
I had a little magnet/picture craft planned but the photo printer didn’t cooperate and we had more than enough to fill the time as it was. It was a really fun night!
