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SORTING SHAMROCKS
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Print out 4 or 5 copies of the two smaller shamrock
patterns. |
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Have your children color or paint them green. |
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Then cut out the shamrocks. |
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Mix up the shamrocks and let your child sort them into
piles by size.
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RAINBOW PUZZLE
You can make a color rainbow puzzle for your child by using
a 9 x 12 white piece of poster board.
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Lay the cardboard sideways and draw a large arc using
the bottom edge of the paper as the bottom of the arc. |
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With a pencil, mark off 12 inches on the bottom and
draw pencil arcs connecting the first and last inch mark
& so on making 6 (1 inch) arcs. |
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Cut out the six arcs and color the largest one red,
the next largest orange, then yellow, green, blue and
purple for the last arc. |
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Throw away the inner arc and the
other left-over papers. |
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Mix up the arcs and give them to your
child. |
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Have him find the smallest arc (the
purple one) and then place the other arcs on top, creating
a rainbow of color arcs. |
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THE THREE BEARS
Read the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Then
play a fun size game with your children.
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Set out 3 bowls of different sizes. |
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Have your child decide which bowl would belong
to the Baby Bear, which bowl would belong to the
Mama Bear and which bowl would belong to Papa Bear. |
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Continue with other set of objects of different
sizes, such as; 3 spoons, 3 cups, 3 pillows and
3 books. |
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KITE PICTURE
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Print out a large, medium and
small kite pattern. |
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Let your child
color the kites and then help her cut them out. |
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Next, give her a large piece
of blue paper and some paste. |
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Have her glue the kites onto
the paper. |
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Next,
give her 3 yarn kite strings, cut in 3 different
lengths. |
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Have her measure the strings
next to each other and glue the biggest string to
the biggest kite, the medium string to the medium
kite and the smallest string to the smallest kite. |
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