Amid our family date, hosting Bible study, a missions conference at church, and another round of the stomach flu, we managed to do a few activities for St. Patrick's Day, scattered throughout the week.
The first was a copy of something we did a few months ago when reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. I printed an image (a fish that time, a shamrock this time) and carefully cut it out. Levi got the cut-out part and a container of glue, for dipping tissue paper. I covered the hole left from the cut-out with packing tape and gave that to Owen, who was happy to stick his tissue paper squares onto the sticky side of the tape. While Owen was much more willing to fill up his shamrock than he was his fish, Levi lost interest quickly. Usually it's the other way around!
Second, we utilized the stamping technique from our toilet-paper-roll hearts, this time using a green pepper to make clovers. A big hit with both boys!
They had so much fun painting that they asked for more paper and brushes.
"O for Owen!"
"Okay, I'll smile, but I won't look up."
They both completed a page from this printable packet: color-by-number rainbow for Levi, matching for Owen. It was the first time I'd seen Owen deliberately draw straight(ish) lines -- hooray! Levi also did several "crack the code" pages from this packet. That type of activity is often in our children's bulletin, but those are so small that he has trouble keeping his letters in the right place. These were perfect for his developing handwriting!
I planned a bunch of green foods for St. Patrick's Day and the day before, but we all went through another round of the stomach flu. Can't do much with bananas and toast. Silas, who was better by Friday, did have a spinach cake muffin, and we're having spinach tortellini soup tonight, so we are getting in a few green things!
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