St. Patrick's Day: Day Two

Green!

Learn that you can make the color green by mixing yellow and blue.
List some things that are green in the world around us.
Identify green objects.
Understand that wearing green is a tradition of St. Patrick's Day.


Read Green Eggs & Ham--Dr. Seuss

Making the color green:

1) Scramble some eggs and add green food coloring. Have children help you mix it until all green. (Save for later use. See snacks below...)

2) Pour a small amount of light corn syrup into a ziploc bag. Talking with children about colors, pour in a few drops of yellow and blue food coloring. Have children squish the mixture together until green magically appears!


3) See what happens when yellow and blue paint are mixed:


4) Squeeze drops of blue and yellow food coloring onto white paper towels or coffee filters. Watch green appear as the colors blend.

St. Patrick's Day and Green:
Discuss the color green and what it means to the Irish people. It is connected to hope and nature. We wear green clothing to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

* Where is the color green in nature? Plants, trees and animals, like a grasshopper.

* When talking about plants you can introduce the shamrock.

Songs:

"G-R-E-E-N" (B-I-N-G-O)
There's a color we all know.
It's made with blue and yellow:
G-R-E-E-N
G-R-E-E-N
G-R-E-E-N
The color's name is Green!


"Green" (Old MacDonald)
Take some blue and add yellow
G-R-E-E-N.
It's the color that means "Go."
G-R-E-E-N.
Grass is green and lettuce is green.
Leaves and shamrocks and trees are green.
It's a color we all know.
G-R-E-E-N!

St. Patrick's Day Song

(sung to IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT)

If you're wearing green today, dance a jig,
If you're wearing green today, dance a jig,
If you're wearing green today,
Dance a jig, then smile and say,
"Have a very Happy St. Patrick's Day"

Additional verses:
"If you're wearing green today, clap your hands…."
"If you're wearing green today, spin around…."
"If you're wearing green today, shout "Hurray!…."
"If you're wearing green today, stamp your feet…."

Author Unknown

Green Activities:

Make a St. Patrick's Day wreath.

Color a picture using only shades of green.
Go on a green nature hunt.
Make green playdough.
Make a green paper chain.
Count green cars while riding in the car.
Make a book and glue in green pictures.

GREEN COLLAGE PAINTINGS

	Invite your children to help tear or cut green pictures out of magazines.
	Give them large pieces of white paper, and set out some green tempera paint.
	Let the children brush the paint on their papers.
	Then have them select some green pictures to place on the wet paint to create green collages.

SHADES OF GREEN

	Pour white tempera paint into muffin tins or small cups.
	Show your children how to mix the white paint with different amounts of green paint to create new shades of green.
	Then, let your children use the green paint to paint a green picture.

Green Treasure Hunt:
Help children collect at least 5 items from around the house that are green. Count your items when the search is over. If children can put all the items back in the correct spot, they win a green prize...like a snack. (See below.)


GREEN SNACK IDEAS

	Add chopped spinach to scrambled eggs. Serve after reading “Green Eggs & Ham”.
	Make pistachio pudding.
	Cut up green vegetables, (such as, broccoli, green pepper sticks, green cucumbers, green beans) and serve with spinach dip.
	Serve guacamole with chips.
	Make green frosting for cupcakes or cookies.
	Serve honeydew melon.
	Let children help you make a green salad.
	Serve limeade.