Rainbow pot of gold finger print keepsake

Fun and simple finger print keepsake craft for kids to make.

I drew the pot with a black sharpie, on card stock and then cut out circles for the coins.

Had the kids glue the gold coins on and then we did their finger prints in each color of the rainbow.

Materials:

White card stock paper

Colored ink pads

Glue

I love the top picture of the kids when Jake was helping Cate do the finger prints.


Some other St. Patrick's Day fun

Shamrock necklace

Glittery Shamrock play dough

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25+ fun things for kids to do for St. Patrick's Day

We love to do crafts and hands on experiments, so I put together a fun list of things to do with kids for St. Patrick's Day. 

Some of them are ones we have done and others are from some  great blogs I follow. 

Be sure to check them all out so you don't miss anything.

Rainbow Ice Volcano

Rainbow hand print

by: B-inspired Mama

What a great keepsake craft.

Rainbow candy dish

by: Makezine

Fun ans simple candy dish

Shamrock necklace

Rainbow window art

by; The Golden Gleam

Love this very colorful craft.

Wee little shamrock man

by: Sweet and Lovely Crafts

Coffee filter treat package

by: Reading Confetti

Shamrock play dough

Shamrock and rainbow

by: Rockabye Butterfly

So colorful and pretty!!

Leprechaun Hats craft

by: Mom on timeout

I love these creative leprechaun hats!!

Shamrock science

St. Patrick's Day Candle

by: Mess For Less

Shamrock sprouts

by: Housing a Forest

This is super cool, can't wait to try this with the kids.

Toilet paper roll leprechaun

by: Moments of Mommyhood

Rainbow marshmallow painting

by: Creekside Learning

What a fun way to paint.

Fizzing Shamrocks

 Thumb print shamrocks

by: Inner Child Fun

Super cute and simple craft

Paper plate leprechaun

by: Busy Bee kids crafts

Love paper plate crafts

Green Daisy color science

by: B-Inspired Mama

Tissue paper rainbow

by: Play and Learning with Dana

Fun rainbow craft using tissue paper 

Shamrock puppet

by: Suite 101

Cute!!

St. Patrick's Day sensory bin

by: The Farmer's Wife

Rainbow color matching craft

by: The Bubbly Blonde

Great craft to teach color matching along with working fine motor skills

Texture shamrock craft

by: No Time for Flash Cards

If you have never been to this site be sure to stop by GREAT learning site.

Fizzing rainbow goop science

Foot print 4 leaf clover craft

by: Handprint and Footprint Art

An awesome site to visit every hand and foot print idea you could think of.

Hand print pot of gold

by: The Logan's

I love this rainbow hand print craft so cute!!

Pom pom rainbow

by: Gummy Lump Toys

Shamrock cookie cutter painting

by: In Lieu of Preschool

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10 themed Easter Egg Hunt ideas for kids

Easter is one of my favorite holidays, I love all the pastel colors. One of my favorite memories besides always getting a new dress was the Easter Egg Hunt. 

We did several different themed egg hunts, so below I put together a list some are from when I was a kid and some are new ones I can't wait to do with my kids.

1. Alphabet Egg Hunt:

Write the upper and lower case letter on the eggs and then hide mix matched eggs and see who has the most matches after the eggs are found.

Example: place A and g together and see if they find the lower case a and upper case G.

2. Inside Egg Hunt:

Hide eggs in the house and the kids find them.

This was one of the best memories I had at Easter when I was a kid my brother and I finding Easter eggs hidden in the house Easter morning.

3. Night time Egg Hunt:

Kids need to have adults with them and do it in a safe place. Grab a flash light and go on a hunt to find the eggs under the moon and stars. Place glow sticks in the eggs

4. Treasure Egg Hunt:

Decorate the area like you are on an island and make a treasure map then let the kids go and find treasure. You can hide coins and dollars in the eggs. Dollar Tree has fun tropical decorations for this event.

5. Hide the Easter basket Egg Hunt:

Hide the kids Easter basket and set clues in the eggs for them to find the basket.

6. Secret Egg Hunt:

Place messages in the eggs for big prizes. Examples like trip to ice cream shop, play putt putt golf, go bowling and favorite place to eat.

7. Name Egg Hunt:

Write the kids names on the eggs and who ever finds their name first wins a special prize.

8. Math Egg Hunt:

Place numbers in each egg and the person with the highest number after adding them all up wins an extra little prize.

9. Easter Egg Bath Hunt:

Place plastics grass in the bath tub and eggs under it with toys and have them find all the eggs in the bath or this year we hide the eggs under bubbles and that was a BIG hit cause my kids really didn't like the feel of  the plastic grass last year.

Easter hunt bath

10. Golden and Sliver Egg Hunt:

Place a golden and a silver egg in a hard to find spot with money in it.

We did this as kids at my Nana's house and it was so much fun.

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Shamrock science for kids

Three great ways to add a little St.Patrick's Day fun to kids science play. Twist things up a little to make it look and seem different to them using some house hold items.

Materials:

Vinegar

Baking soda

Glitter

Shamrock table toppers(Dollar Store)
Tray
Bowl
Shamrock molds (A.C. Moore use coupon get it for $4.99)


How to make Shimmery Shamrock Science

Mixed baking soda, green kool-aid, and glitter all in a bowl, then placed water in a squeeze bottle and made it erupt.

How to make Erupting Green Shamrocks

I mixed our fake snow mixture together and added green kool-aid to it for the green color, then placed it in a silicone shamrock mold and let them freeze over night.  That made them hard like rocks. Then I placed them on a tray/pan and the kids used pipettes to squirt the vinegar on them for them to fizz. We had Fizzing Shamrocks.

This is a great fine motor skill for toddlers and preschoolers using the pipettes.


We have made fizzing rocks before but never thought about putting them in molds til I saw it at Science Sparks from Pinterest.

Make your own Glittery Shamrock Play Dough

You can make this 3 different ways use regular store bought play dough, kool-aid play dough, or gluten free play dough. Then just add some fun glitter to it and play away. We also added mint extract to this batch for a yummy smell.

Shamrock Slushy

Slushy Science


If you haven't see our new recipe for Kool-Aid Ice cream dough be sure to check it out.

Kool-Aid ice cream dough

Ice Volcano

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Homemade sand art project for Valentine's

We were in the craft store the other day and "J" saw these cute plastic heart sand containers and asked could we get some for grandparent gifts. So we did. They were $1.00 each.

Then when we got home we made some fun scented sand and the kids made some fun sand art projects.

Materials:

Salt (1 used 2 26 oz containers) less than $1.00 for both

Kool-aid packet (strawberry and pink lemonade)

2-3 tsp of water for each color.....you don't want it too wet.

Plastic sand art container or you can use a recycled water bottle with lid

How to make:

1.Mix all 3 ingredients together

2.After I mixed it up I placed in the oven @ 350 degrees on a cookie sheet for 15-20 minutes to get the colored salt to dry like sand.

3. You want to check on the sand and stir it up a couple times while in the oven.

This is a great craft for kid parties, play dates, make to give someone or just for fun. Plus it is super inexpensive. The salt sand cost less than $1.00 to make.

Here are some other Valentine's craft you might like to try as well.

Melted pony bead

Scented puff paint art

Recycled lantern

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Sun catcher Easter Egg craft

We are working on things that begin with the letter "E" for Easter week. Today we made an Easter egg magnet or can be a sun catcher. After you are done you can hang it up in the window and see the sun shine through it. You also have pretty decorations in the window.

We made them as little gifts to send family since we will not be with grandparents for Easter.

Materials:
Tissue paper
glue we used Elmer's
contact paper or you can laminate
parchment paper

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