Clover or Shamrock Crafts | St. Patrick's Day | Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities

Shamrock Crafts (Clover) | St. Patrick's Day
Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities
Themes	Description & Instructions	Materials
Alphabet > Consonant Digraph Sh is for Shamrock Colors > Green Crafts > "Shawn" the Shamrock or "Katie" the Clover Paper Crafts Holidays > March 17 > St. Patrick's Day, Irish American Heritage Month Multicultural > Ireland Plants > Shamrock	Activity > Learn about a holiday and symbols * Have fun reading a bit about St. Patrick, and St. Patrick's Day. Plants > Shamrock: (three leaves) is a type of clover. A Lucky Four-Leaf Clover: when a rare four leaflet occurs in a clover it is said to be lucky and the leaves represent hope, faith, love and the fourth one, luck. * Discuss the color green and what it means to the Irish people. It is connected to hope and associated with nature. * Where is the color green in nature? Plants, trees and animals. Activity > Crafts > "Shawn" the Shamrock or "Katie" the Clover Paper Craft * When talking about plants you can introduce the shamrock and make your choice of these delightful crafts. * For younger children cut "Shawn" or "Katie" pieces in advance. Older children may be able to help with the scissor cutting. * Follow the easy instructions for the craft on the link provided. * Tip: For young two year olds you may want to print the color version or print the shamrock body on green construction paper to emphasize on the color, and the child will not be as tired to complete the craft. Add tiny drops of glue on the desired spots and have child place the pieces -- indicate and call body parts by name as a vocabulary builder. * For children 2.5 and older encourage to color and complete the crafts as much on their own as possible. Activity > Alphabet Consonant Digraph Sh > refer to printable materials in the materials column. St. Patrick's educational printable materials Ages 2+ and up	Crafts dltk-holidays.com "Shawn" the Shamrock "Katie the Clover" Consonant Digraph Sh Activity Worksheet Program & Mini-Book * scissors * glue * crayons, markers * white paper or green construction paper (to print body and save on ink). Optional: wiggly eyes glitter glue
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Shamrock Crafts (Clover) | St. Patrick's Day Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities

Shamrock Crafts (Clover) | St. Patrick's Day
Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities