Floortime Play
Activity: Follow the Rainbow
Materials:
Coins (see below)
Construction Paper
St. Patrick Lucky Shamrock Plastic Coins on Amazon
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
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
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
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)
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
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.
