St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Toddlers

I am not really a fan of seasonal themed activities. Why? For a busy Mom like me, it is difficult to prepare and assemble materials.  The fact that we live far away from the city, our resources are quite limited. It is hard to find materials that fits well in a specific theme.

But… we all have to agree that it is fun to do with your little kids.  It’s cute and fun! And the kids will have that festive feeling of the celebration.  That’s why, because this month we are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day here in Ireland, I am trying out these seasonal themed activities with Vito!  Yes, I’m testing the water and see if I can pull off a seasonal themed activity and let’s see where this will lead me.  We’re not doing a bunch right, we’re only trying those that are easy to prepare and feasible for us.

Scooping Giant Pompoms

Vito has been showing signs that he’s ready.  He always wanted to feed himself so I’m giving him lots of scooping activities so he can practice.

Materials:  giant pompoms (or berries or baby potatoes), plastic scoop from oatmeal box, plastic bowls

Recognizing the Rainbow Colors

We’ve been looking at colors since last year and though we may have one color per month, it won’t hurt to checkout different colors at the same time. Here I was talking to Vito all about the rainbow and its colors.  We used my Learning Resources Critters Counters which I got from Amazon last year.  I was pretty happy that they have all the 6 colors of the rainbow!

Materials:  DIY color cards (from flash cards, cardstock, art paper) and counters (or erasers/rubbers, pompoms, toy beads etc.)

Language and Vocabulary

So you might think that it’s too early for your little ones to understand all of these?  You might be mistaken! They actually absorb all the little things you show them!  Currently, there’s a lot of displays of leprechauns, rainbows, shamrock, etc. at the stores and malls. Vito sees all of these whenever we’re outdoors.  So I provided some beautiful cards with clear readable fonts for infants and added tangible objects so I can show and explain what he is seeing everywhere.

Materials:  St. Patrick’s vocabulary cards (downloadable from this post, follow the link at the end of this post), matching objects (Lucky Leprechaun Plastic Coins, St Patrick's Day Party Mini Rubber Erasers).

Gold Counting Activity and Number Recognition

I made counting cards as well and used some play money gold coins for this.  Since the start of the year, I’ve been introducing Vito to counting by counting his fingers, his toes, the buttons we’re playing, the blocks, and more. So here, I introduced counting with the symbol.  Again, there’s no such thing as too early or too late.

Materials: counting cards (downloadable from this post, follow link at the end of this post), play money gold coins.

Mess Free Shamrock Painting

Materials: sealable plastic bag, printed shamrock (you can get the outline from the web), orange and green non-toxic tempera paints.

Put everything in the plastic bag… and let the fun begin!

Vito’s shamrock masterpiece (after he basically tortured the plastic!)

And there goes our activities for St Patrick’s Day!  Even if these are all for Vito, big brother loved doing all of these as well! How cool isn’t it?

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