Free Printable Party Favours And Gifts For St Patrick's Day

If your planning on giving gifts this St Patrick's day or even throwing a party, here's some fantastic free printables for you:

Lucky Label from It Is What It Is

Cupcake Toppers from Lizard & Ladybug

Kiss Me I'm Irish from Supermom Moments

St Patrick's Day Printables For Kids

Today's post is filled with free printables perfect for starting new family traditions and adding some fun to your children's lunchboxes!

St Patrick's Day Treasure Hunt from Momtastic

Lunchbox Notes from Crafts & Sutch

Stickers from Kids Can Have Fun

Jokes from Glitter Magic

St Patrick's Day Crafts For Young Children

Today I'm sharing with you my top ten easy St Patrick's day crafts for toddlers and preschoolers!


Magic Leprechaun Finder from The Happy Home Fairy

Green Collage Shamrock from Mustard Seeds

Toilet Paper Roll Leprechauns from Just For Fun

St Patrick's Day Learning Activities For Toddlers & Preschoolers

Pot Of Gold Math from Fun 4 Kids

Alphabet Snake from Kid Care And Day Care

Shamrock Shaker Discovery Bottles from No Time For Flashcards

Free Printables To Teach St Patrick's Day

If you are planning on doing some learning activities at home with your toddlers are preschoolers for St Patrick's day here is a round up of amazing free printables that you can put to good use:

St Patrick's Day Printables For All Ages from Our Worldwide Classroom

Handwriting Printable from Supermom Moments

Shamrock Pattern matching from Preschool Printables

(photo via Rockabye Butterfly)

Free Printable Decor For St Patrick's Day

Prints

 

St Patrick's Day Print from Anything But Perfect

Lucky Prints from It's A Crafty Life

Healthy St Patrick's Day Snacks For Kids

It's easy to serve up all things green for St Patrick's day but why not liven things up with these creative snack recipes that are sure to be a huge hit with the kids:

Veggie Rainbow Wraps from Healthy Happy Life

St Patrick's Day-Great Posts Of 2010

I'll be sharing some St Patrick's day posts in the next few weeks but I thought I'd take a look back to the St Patrick's day posts of 2010. I had only been blogging for two months so many of you probably haven't read them yet. Grab a cuppa and cozy in because I've got heaps of fun ideas to try:

Crafts For Toddlers & Preschoolers

St Patrick's Activity A Day Countdown Calendar

St Patrick's Day is next month so I've been busy working on an activity a day countdown calendar for kids that I know you will love!

I've made 8 pages of activity cards filled with Montessori inspired activities. Activities encourage imagination and teach skills in math, music, language arts, geography, science and art. They also include fun games to teach fine motor and gross motor skills. All activities require little prep work and can be done with things you already have at home or can acquire easily and on a budget. 

FREE St. Patricks Day Printables

Wowzers...2 posts in 1 day! And to think I said I was cutting back on posting right? Here's some more late freebies but this time with a St. Patricks day theme. Please make sure to link up if you have some other ones that might be useful.


St Pats Note Card from 74 Lime Lane

Cupcake toppers by Living Locurto

Cupcake toppers from The Tomkat Studio

St Patricks day silouettes from chickabug via How Does She?

Kiss me I might be Irish card from Domestifluff

Kiss Me Anyway pins from Make Merry Events

Irish Cream Tutorial & Labels from Joy Ever After

Assemble popcorn ball beer treats from Hostess with the Mostess

Treat bag toppers from Chica & Jo

Printable Treasure hunt from Jesse Kate Designs

"I'm lucky because..." clover template from Roots and Wings Co.

All The Colours Of The Rainbow

This week my son & I have been working on learning colours & making rainbows. Here are 2 of the science/ sensory activities we did:

Make a Rainbow

What you need:

-Shallow dish

-1 cup of whole milk

-Red, blue & yellow food colouring

-Liquid Dish Soap

What to do:

-Pour 1 cup of milk into the bowl. 

-Add 3 drops of red food colouring to one edge of the bowl 

-1/3 of the way away, add 3 drops of blue food colouring

- 1/3 of the way away add 3 drops of yellow don't mix or jiggle the bowl. 

-Squeeze a drop of dish soap in the center of the bowl and watch what happens!

What happens: The dish soap does not mix with the milk. Instead it floats on top and spreads over the surface. As it spreads, it grabs the food colour we dropped into it. Where the colours meet, they combine to form new colours.

 My son loved this activity. He kept saying "Wow!" & his eyes were big. He was so amazed watching the colours.

Muffin Tin Mixing

What you need:

-Muffin tin

-Food Colouring

-Medicine dropper

-Water

What to do:

-Fill the muffin tin 3/4 full of water

-Add food colouring to the water 

(I made one red, one blue & one yellow. The rest I didn't add colouring to)

-Using the dropper mix different colours together

 As you can see K loved this activity too. I worried it might be a bit too hard for a 17 month old but he figured out how to use the dropper & we mixed colours together. K loved watching the colours change & learned the words "een" (green) & red. We did this for nearly an hour which is crazy considering his usual time span for any activity is a max. of 2 minutes on any given day.

Just be warned, there will most likely be tears when you try & pack it away & you'll probably have to do it over & over & OVER again. Oh..& careful with the blue colouring....I may have inadvertently coloured K's hands green. Just getting in the spirit of St. Patricks day right?

St Patricks Day Songs & Fingerplays

Well I'm a little late in finishing compiling all the songs & fingerplays for St Patricks day that I had on my other computer. Please forgive me for that. My son hasn't been sleeping well & we've been dealing with having a mouse (mice?!) in the house. Hopefully, this booklet comes to you with enough time to put it to good use over the next week & for years to come!

St. Patricks Day Song & Fingerplay Book

The songs & fingerplays in this book are recommended for toddlers & preschoolers but can also be used for English as a Second Language learners. Please note that the songs & fingerplays in this book have been compiled from various people, books, teaching aids & internet resources over the past decade & unfortunately their original origins are not known. It is copyrighted to Delicious Ambiguity Blog & is for personal use only.

I'd appreciate it if you would leave a comment should you download it & become a Follower of my blog if you haven't already. If you write about it on your blog please link back to Delicious Ambiguity Blog.

There are some great songs & fingerplays in this book that are recommended for felt board use. If you do come up with a felt board scene I'd love to see it & if you have a favorite St Patricks day song or fingerplay I haven't mentioned I'd love to hear about it as well. I love comments! 

DIY Edible Fingerpaint & Fingerprint Rainbows

Yesterday I made fingerpaint & then K & I made fingerprint rainbows. We had such a great time. Here are the directions:

DIY Edible Fingerpaint

(Recipe taken from Our Best Bites)

This recipe is edible because it is not harmful if consumed,
 which is really important when you have a toddler that puts EVERYTHING in their mouth. 
However, its really not tasty nor meant to be eaten.

What you need:

-3T sugar

-1/2 C cornstarch

-2 C cold water

-food colouring

What to do: 

-Mix sugar & cornstarch together in a saucepan.

-Add cold water & combine with a whisk.

-Cook on medium heat until the mixture thickens to a thin pudding consistency

(Stop the cooking process a little before its the consistency that you like

 because it thickens upon standing)

-Cool & separate into bowls

-Colour as desired

Fingerprint Rainbows

This fingerprint rainbow is a fun activity for toddlers that is perfect for 

St Patrick's Day or a rainbow theme.

What you need:

-Fingerpaint for all the colors of the rainbow

-Paintbrush

-Paper

-A wet cloth to clean your childs hands

What to do:

-Using your paint brush, paint the sides of your child's fingers on both hands with red paint. 

-Shape them into an arch and print on to the paper. 

-Repeat with the rest of the rainbow colours, making the arches smaller and smaller. 

My son didn't like having the sides of his hands painted so in the beginning this led to tears.  After a while we made fingerprint rainbows & I allowed K to smudge the paint. It looks beautiful when we were finished even though we didn't use our arches the whole time. We both loved making these & I hung our rainbows on our wall. Every time he looks up & tells me it's pretty & smiles. A job well done! :)

DIY: Inspiring Saint Patricks Day Decor

Saint Patricks day is just around the corner so why not get your craft on & decorate your house. Here's some creative & inspiring ideas to get you started:


Make lucky blocks with
The Woman Who Couldnt Sit Still

Make crochet shamrock garland

with Skip to my Lou

Make a rainbow themed doorway 

with The Ramblings of a Crazy Woman

Make a green shamrock wreath 

with A Little Tipsy

Felt shamrock garland with

Simply Designing

Lucky pillows with Attempting Creative

Ruffled rainbows with The Salty Pineapple

Lucky burlap banner with Oopsey-Daisy

Create a Luck of the Irish canvas

with Lulus Tiles

Saint Patricks wreath 
with Its Good For The Heart

Make shamrocks for cheap

with Jessica Leigh

Make lucky hanging shamrocks
with Skip to my Lou

Make a Kiss Me Bunting 

with Martha Shmartha

There's so many great ideas out there & I absolutely love these ones. Did you make or have you found something for Saint Patricks day that you've used to decorate your home with? I'd love to hear about it so please comment below:)