Sticky Paper Rainbow
I did a similar activity for Honey Pot and Little M&M back in 2014, and they actually brought it up years later because they really loved doing it. St. Patrick's Day seemed like a fine time to offer it to Sweet E too! So I drew a rainbow outline on craft paper, covered it with a piece of contact paper (sticky side up), and supplied Sweet E with some snippets of colored paper. She loved it too!
Learning Notebook - Rainbow Writing
This is something her big brother and sister used to do in Kindergarten and 1st Grade with their sight words. We just did a couple shapes!
Learning Notebook - Fill in the Missing Color
Inspired by stayathomeactivitymom on Instagram, who created a larger version with paint. I wanted to keep it simple, and used markers instead!
Pot of Gold Addition
This free printable came from Kindergarten Smarts. Sweet E rolled the dice, put that many pieces of gold in each pot, added them up, and wrote the sum herself! She loved this game, and did it many, many times!
Alphabet Matching + Sensory Bin
I pulled out a cauldron from our Halloween supplies, and filled it with our rainbow rice. Then I put stickers on gold doubloons and hid them inside the rice. Sweet E had to dig for gold, then match up the upper and lowercase letters.
Leprechaun Vowel Sounds
I made this activity in Photoshop Elements, to help Sweet E differentiate between vowel sounds. She sometimes gets them confused when sounding out CVC words. She needed to pick up a shamrock, say the word pictured, and attach it to the appropriate leprechaun using our linking chains. This was initially challenging for her, but she got better and better as we went!
Sometimes we'd use the gold pieces to help us sound out the words.
