Tuesday, April 13, 2010

St. Patrick's Day & S and G School Day (late)

We had a very busy but fun St. Patrick's Day this year. We had our preschool day and decided to do the letters S and G for green and snakes and St. Patrick. We are still LOVING the letter learning sheets from Handwriting Without Tears...they had fun exercises to learn S like skating, and for G cutting grass.
We made this adorable Snake craft and the girls still have them hanging in their rooms! So easy!
We made Shamrocks to symbolize the Trinity.
I printed out several coloring sheets of St. Patrick including one from my new Faith Keepers Combo Set from Catholic Artworks and also made our own holy cards!
The kids really loved making their Snake Suckers!! This was super easy and they LOVED it. I used skittles instead of TRIX. I had leftover candy melts so I made more candy sticks and tried to make them look like shamrocks.
For lunch, I tried to do an S, G and green St. Patrick's day theme - it was a smorgasbord. We had cheese (shaped like shamrocks) and crackers, Strawberries, Green Grapes, Soup, these delicious and fun Shamrock Pretzels, Green Shamrock shaped jello gigglers, chips with homemade Salsa and Sparkling Cider.
My mom had us over for a delicious Corn Beef dinner (still need to get the new recipe she used) and then the girls helped me make Shamrock Pretzel Sticks that night. A fun day indeed!