{"id":1237,"date":"2012-03-16T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/2012\/03\/saint-patricks-day-smash-a-shamrock-activity-and-more.html"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T15:26:23","slug":"saint-patricks-day-smash-shamrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/saint-patricks-day-smash-shamrock\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Patrick’s Day Smash a Shamrock Playdough activity and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our St. Patrick’s Day Tot School<\/a> fun continues with this adorable Smash a Shamrock activity. These activities were planned for Tot School – 28 months. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

See how much fun you can have with just a few items for this St. Patrick’s Day with your toddler. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Tot School St. Patrick’s Day Activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We’ve had a delightful learning week with a visit to the farm to feed the animals, a play date with friends, and lots of gardening outside. The favorite activity of the week – you’d never guess!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We call it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SMASH-A-SHAMROCK!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Playdough Shamrock Activity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Math<\/u><\/b>: I love that it teaches sequencing, number sense, shapes, and vocabulary, and allows for developing fine motor skills!  What I might say to my 2-year-old is italicized!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Roll a ball<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Let’s roll a small green ball.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Roll another ball and count how many you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Do you have 3 balls?” “Not yet, we need one more!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Roll another ball and count how many you have. (touch each ball as you count)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“1, 2, 3, …Do you have 3 balls? – YES!!! It’s time to SMASH A SHAMROCK!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Smash the balls with the palm of your hands and make a shamrock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ha, ha, ha. That was fun, do you want to make another shamrock? Yes? What will we need to do?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

REPEAT!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(He wanted to make shamrock after shamrock after shamrock – I got bored way before he did!)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Green Balloon Basketball<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Teaching toddlers really doesn’t require any fancy equipment. We really had a blast this week with just the simple tools of paper, crayons, play dough, and balloons (only use with adult supervision) We (I put we because I play too!) played “Keep the balloon high,” a game where we just hit the balloon high up. When the balloon touches the ground, we say “too low,” and throw it back up! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we played catch and balloon basketball with the laundry basket as our hoop. Keeping in the spirit of the holiday this weekend, we used a green balloon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Handprint Shamrock Craft <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A friend of mine brought this cute little handprint craft to our toddler play date.  Nicholas had fun painting his hands and wanted to do his version of finger painting.  3 prints were not enough.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am going to try and do some more finger painting with him this weekend and may try the edible version! I think she purchased hers through Oriental Trading Company, but this could easily be done with construction paper too!<\/p>\n\n\n

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And last, but not least, I was so inspired by Kim’s eat the rainbow post<\/a> that I cut up a bunch of fruit and put it in a small bowl.  I gave pretty little plates to my kids and had them make their own personal rainbows. We topped it off with a cloud of whipped cream. The kids were on cloud nine! They thought this was a great snack!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more St. Patrick’s Day Activities for your child, you may enjoy these: <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Our St. Patrick’s Day Tot School fun continues with this adorable Smash a Shamrock activity. These activities were planned for Tot School – 28 months.  See how much fun you can have with just a few items for this St. Patrick’s Day with your toddler. Tot School St. Patrick’s Day Activities We’ve had a delightful learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":13092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[141,86,644,643,15,221,369,95,303],"class_list":{"0":"post-1237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-math","8":"tag-activity","9":"tag-amanda","10":"tag-math","11":"tag-playdough","12":"tag-preschool","13":"tag-spring","14":"tag-st-patricks-day","15":"tag-toddler","16":"tag-tot-school","17":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/stpats.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"The Educators Spin On It","author_link":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/author\/theeducatorsspinonit\/"},"mv":{"thumbnail_id":13092,"thumbnail_uri":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/stpats-210x300.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81653,"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/81653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}