Winter Session Week Nine

Saint Patrick's Day- Mosaic Shamrocks and Rainbow/Shamrock Cuffs

There was a old woman who lived in a shoe.
She thought it'd be nice to paint it blue.
A giant by mistake,
the shoe did he take.
Now the old woman is going boohoo. Written by Kathie Stokes

Yes, who knew I could write such eloquent limericks. The day is upon us to celebrate the color green, little mysterious people, gold coins, rainbows, shamrocks, pinching others, and for those who are old enough green beer? If you haven't guessed already, and I am assuming you have since I have some smart cookies who read this, yes in fact, St. Patrick's Day arrived. So, for the glorious occasion we made collage, mosaic shamrocks, and rainbow shamrock cuffs. We also talked about limericks, and the kids wrote a few themselves. We kicked it off with the story of how St. Patrick's Day came to be.

Starting with the collage-mosaic shamrocks we had the children use some cardstock, and trace a large shamrock onto the paper. Then using yellow and green tissue paper they painted matte medium onto the paper and laid down the tissue paper, and then painted over it to seal it. The matte medium dries clear and gives the appearance of stained glass in a way. After it dried they then cut out the shamrock and we punched a hole on top and strung a ribbon through so they could hang it in a window.










Here's a shot of our powerful rainbow/shamrock cuffs. When you want to become one with the leprechauns you wear these, and it helps you find those elusive gold coins, yippee! We prepared the ribbon beforehand. The kids used a template to trace and cut out their felt shamrock, and thread it onto their new fangled cuff!