I was trying to figure out what to do for the kids to make their bath fun on St. Patrick's Day. I was thinking about just dying the water green, but I've done that before. I wanted something new. I was talking with my friend about it and she said she had seen on Pinterest where the bath was a rainbow. I thought that would be fun, so I started thinking about how to do that. I decided that I would make a bubble bath and just paint the bubbles with my liquid watercolors. I finally found the original idea here, and that was exactly what she did. I loved how she added the treasure hunt in, so I did that also. I dumped plastic coins, shamrocks, and glass gems in the bottom before filling the tub up with water. In Callie's words: "This is AWESOME!!!"
Our rainbow bath with pots to collect the treasure in.
They were just a little excited!
Callie tried to pick each color and put it on her head and said, "Look, I've got a rainbow on my head!"
Callie diving for treasure. She asked for goggles so she could see under the water.
We celebrated St. Patrick's Day today since tomorrow is our Sabbath. We started off with a breakfast of rainbow pancakes and green soy milk.
Then after our normal Friday morning cleaning, we headed out to our classroom for some calendar time, sensory bin, and playdough fun.
We came back in and Callie went to room time while I worked with Josh during school time. The printables came from here, here and here.
Graphing erasers.
"Ta-da"
Placing the gold coins onto the pot of gold according to the number.
Counting the pictures and clipping the pin onto the correct number. I love his concentration here!
After Josh's school time, we had lunch, which of course was St. Patty's themed! Check out the post right below this one for the pic.
The treat I made them for after lunch. For how wonderful these smell, they don't really taste that great. The kiddos ate the chocolate coin and left the rest.
Rolling the die and graphing what she got.
Painting a rainbow with our fingers.
Callie wanted to add gold coins to her pot.
Callie ended up adding a sun and clouds also!
Here is a little concert that Josh would like to give you:
To top everything off, we had a green feast tonight! We had pesto pasta, steamed zucchini, roasted asparagus and broccoli, kale and avocado salad, and a green fruit salad with grapes, kiwi, and honeydew. It was all delicious. Callie made the kale salad herself and she ate a ton of it before we sat down. She and Josh were chowing down on the salad and saying it was delicious, but when we sat down to eat, neither one of them ate it off their plates. Oh-well. At least they ate some. Both my kids are pretty good eaters, so I can't complain!
This was a super simple lunch to put together. I used a cookie cutter to cut out the sandwich and put St. Patty's themed sprinkles on top. There are pickles, applesauce, and candy coated sunflower seeds in the muffin cups. The sunflower seeds are actually left over from Christmas, so I just picked out the red ones!
This was last year's lunch, but I added it on here in case anyone wanted some more inspiration, and because it is my absolute favorite lunch I have ever done! The sandwich was cut with a circle cutter and the hat was made from a bell pepper, fruit leather, and vegan cheese. I decorated the face using shaved carrots, craisens, vegan cheese, and fruit leather. The rainbow sprinkles are candy coated sunflower seeds, and various fruit make up the rainbow on the side.
Here are the supplies I used to make these lunches.
Here are some activities that we have been doing this week. My printables came from here, here, and here.
Tracing the dotted lines.
Circling the picture that is different.
Matching letters. This was hard for him. I should have just pulled out the vowels. I ended up matching and then asking him what the letter was.
Sorting pictures.
Sorting pictures.
Counting the syllables and clipping the correct number. This was her first introduction to syllables. It took a few to catch on, and she couldn't clap and count at the same time, so I clapped and she counted.
This is a matching puzzle with a mat that can go underneath to match the letters. Since Callie knows her letters and is already reading some, I asked her to spell clover. She sounded it out and spelled it.
Graphing erasers. We talked about which one had the most and the least.
Josh decided he wanted to do the pipe cleaners for the first time today. I was amazed that he was putting the colors in the correct order. I'm glad I took a picture when I did though, because he was done after the yellow and put everything away.
We had an impromptu tea party when I watched a friends' girls for a little while today. If you look closely, you can see the new artwork that Joshua added to my table last night with a permanent marker, right by Callie's arm. Thanks Josh!
