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Floortime Play

Activity: Follow the Rainbow

Materials:

Coins (see below)

Construction Paper

St. Patrick Lucky Shamrock Plastic Coins on Amazon

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Lessons

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to expand, count the coins at the end or hide the coins where they are not visible and give your child clues.

Growing My Skills

Tape construction paper on the floor in a path (random colors to make it look like a rainbow).

Place coins on the path, outside the path, or hide them.

Follow the path and find as many coins as you can!

Relaxation Time

Activity: Leprechaun Yoga

Materials:

St. Patrick’s Day Themed Yoga Poses

Blue Bird Day and Parent At Home Resources

Skill Check 

The goal of St. Patrick’s Day yoga is for kids to get some movement in their day, follow directions, and relax their body.

Growing My Skills

Get comfortable with your blanket and pillow.

Play the star gazing video and encourage your child to slow their breathing and focus on the images they see.

Discuss how the different poses make your body feel, which poses are challenging, and even add in a few minutes of meditation at the end of your yoga session.

Creative Time

Activity: Leprechaun Slime

Materials:

Clear Glue

Borax Laundry Booster

Gold Coins

Gold Glitter

Green Food Coloring

Bowl and Spoon

Blue Bird Day and slime

Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to practice multi-step directions, build fine motor skills, and engage in play with their slime.

Growing My Skills

In bowl one mix 1 tablespoon of Boraz with 1 cup warm water and stir until the borax dissolves.

In bowl 2, mix 5oz glue with 1/2 cup of water and a few drops of food coloring.

Combine the contents of the two bowls and stir. The mixture will start getting slimy and sticky. Continue stirring until it isn’t sticky anymore. Pull the slime out of the bowl and dump the remaining water out because you don’t need it anymore.

Add gold glitter into the slime and mix it in.

Movement Time

Activity: Leprechaun Coin Hop

Materials:

Coins

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Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to collect lucky coins while practicing your leprechaun hop!

Growing My Skills

Scatter coins all over the floor

Practice hopping around like a leprechaun to collect all of the lucky coins

See if your child can take off and land with both feet at the same time for a good coordinated hop; they might need some verbal cueing to bend their knees first in order to spring up

Mealtime

Activity: Pot of Gold Fruit & Vegetable Salad

Materials:

1 – 2 serving plates

1 tablespoon servings of fruit, veggies, or food from every rainbow color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)

Optional: 1 bowl of cheerios or gold-colored cereal (i.e. Captain crunch)

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Skill Check 

The goal of this activity is to encourage fruit and vegetable consumption in the theme of a Leprachaun’s rainbow to a pot of gold.

Growing My Skills

Wash hands, prepare plates for fruit and vegetables

Select fruits, vegetables, or other foods of every rainbow color – encourage your child to find foods of varying colors and build their own rainbow

Place food in order of rainbow colors, encourage your child to label and sample each color

Language Time

Activity: St. Patrick’s Day

Materials:

Pete the Cat The Great Leprechaun Chase by James Dean Book

Different Color Paper

Markers

Scissors

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Skill Check 

The goal of this week is to provide an opportunity for your child to increase use, expand, and improve understanding of language through play.

Expanding Skills

Read this book, part of a beloved series, with your child, and after focus on building pragmatic and expressive language skills by creating your own magical rainbow with crafting materials, and passing our gold coins to family members in your house.

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