Five Green Shamrocks
Cut five shamrocks
from green construction paper. Print a child's name on each
one and place in front of the children. As you recite following
verse, children can
find their names and take the shamrock. Continue until everyone
has a turn.
5 little shamrocks growing outside my door,
(Child's name) picked
one, and then there were 4.
4 little shamrocks, green as green could be,
(Child's name) picked
one, and then there were 3.
3 little shamrocks, sitting by my shoe,
(Child's name) picked
one, and then there were 2.
2 little shamrocks, nodding in the sun,
(Child's name) picked
one and that left 1.
1 little shamrock for Saint Patrick's Day fun,
(Child's name) picked
it, and that left none.
Ten Little
Shamrocks
Ten little shamrocks
growing by the gate.
(Child's name) picked two and that left
eight. (Count the remaining with your child)
Eight little shamrocks growing by the door.
(Child's name) picked four and that left
four.
Four little shamrocks growing the sun.
(Child's name) picked three and that left
one.
One little shamrock growing all alone.
I picked it and took it home.
Five Little
Leprechauns
Five little
leprechauns playing in the sun.
The first one said, “Oh, my! We’re having fun!”
The second one said, “We need to spread some joy!”
The third one said, “Let’s find some girls and boys.”
The fourth one said, “There’s gold to be found!”
The fifth one said, “Let’s look all around!”
Then out came a rainbow, shining bright and bold.
So, five little leprechauns ran to find some gold!
Shamrock
Search
Cut shamrock shapes
out of green felt and hide them around the room.
Then let the children search for the shapes while singing the
song below.
Each time they find a shamrock, have them place it on a flannel
board and take a bow.
When all the shamrocks have been found, count them together with
the children.
(Sung to the tune of: "The Farmer In The Dell")
Let's look for
shamrocks now,
Let's look for shamrocks now,
And when we find a bright green one
Then we can take a bow.
Marlee McFee
and the right hat
By: Tonja Gardiner
At my pre school,
we start the day off with a Flannel board story that I wrote.
Marlee McFee was the
youngest Leprechaun in his clan (explain what a clan is).
Tomorrow was his big day, Marlee was going to receive his very own
and very
special hat. All the Leprechaun men wore hats, and each hat was
very special
because it was chosen especially for the person who wore it. No
one else could
wear your special hat. Tomorrow Marlee would go to the hat maker
and she would
help Marlee try on all kinds of different hats to find the one
that was just right for him.
The next day Marlee got up early hurried to the hat maker's shop.
Marlee had never seen so many hats, hundreds of hats lined the
shelves in the
shop. Marlee sat nervously on the stool while the hat maker
measured his head
then pulled a big tall green and white striped hat off the shelf;
she placed the hat on
Marlee's head. The room went dark, and Marlee couldn't see.....
The hat was too
big. "This one will never do" said the hat maker. Next she choose
a dark green felt
hat that Marlee thought looked like the hats cowboys wore. She
placed this hat on
Marlee's head, the hat came down over Marlee's ears and fell off
when he moved, the
hat maker shook her head and put the hat back on the shelf. The
hat maker reached
high on the shelf and took down a hat that Marlee thought looked
more like a cap than
a hat. It was light green with a bill and kind of flat on top. It
also had a very dark red
feather sticking out of it. Marlee thought the hat looked a little
silly and he laughed
when he looked at himself in the mirror, the hat maker laughed
too, and put the hat
back on the shelf. The next hat she put on Marlee's head was a
medium shade of
green with different colored dots all over the hat. It pointed
straight up in the air and
had a fuzzy little green ball on the end. This hat reminded
Marlee of the Leprechaun
clown that came and did tricks at the leprechaun children's
birthday parties. This hat
fit Marlee just fine but when Marlee stood up the hat touched the
ceiling. "Much to
tall", was all the hat maker said and returned the hat to it's
place on the shelf. The
hat maker looked up and down the shelves, she walked back and
forth. She put
her hand on her chin and said "Hmmmmm", for what seemed to Marlee
a very
long time. Then she smiled a big smile, bent down and took a
small roundish
looking hat from the lowest shelf. She had to blow off a little
dust before she placed
it on Marlee's head. The hat was dark and light green, which were
Marlee's favorite
colors. It was round on top and had a light green band just above
the brim. It was
trimmed with gold and had two four leaf lucky shamrocks on it.
Marlee loved the
hat even before the hat maker put it on his head. Slowly she
placed the hat on
his head, and turned Marlee so he could see in the mirror. The
hat fit perfectly, it
didn't cover his eyes like the first hat, or fall off like the
second hat, and it didn't make
him laugh like the third hat or remind him of a clown like the
fourth hat. No this hat made
Marlee feel like the very happy, proud Leprechaun that he
was.......
Marlee had found just the right hat.
King Sean &
the Pot of Gold
By: Tonja Gardiner
(This is a
flannel board story/ game, for the story you will need to make 11
black
pots of gold and if you like a leprechaun to be Sean. For the
game you will need
some play gold coins and or the chocolate or gum kind a black pot
& small bags for each child)
Tell the children that each of them are going to be made an
honorary Leprechaun
because they will need to help with story. You can give them a
shamrock
to wear saying "Honorary Leprechaun" or make Leprechaun ears!
King Sean was King of all the leprechauns..... He loved his gold
and every day he
would go to the money room and count all of his pots of gold.
One morning when King Sean got to the money room. He began as he
always
did counting the pots of gold. One….. Two……. Three….. Four ……..
Five…….
Six ….. Seven…… Eight…… Nine……. Ten…… Eleven……. ELEVEN, "Eleven"
hollered King Sean, quickly he counted again just to make sure,
and sure enough
their were only eleven pots of gold when their was supposed to be
12, He knew
that his tricky friend Jobe King of the fairies was playing a
trick on him and had
taken his pot of gold. Where oh where could that 12th pot of gold
be wondered
King Sean. He looked all over the money room but that 12th pot of
gold was no
where to be found. King Sean decided to call all the Leprechauns
and ask them
to help him look for the missing pot of gold. All of King Sean's
(honorary)
leprechauns were happy to help him, everyone knows that all
Leprechauns
love gold as much as they love playing tricks, so they all
promised to look
hard for the pot of gold and for clues that would help them find
it.
At this point in the story tell the children that they are going
to be the kings
helpers they need to look for the pot of Gold, which you have
hidden somewhere
before you started the story, as well as scattering some gold
coins around the
room. Give each of them a small bag and tell them that they must
look high & low,
over and under to find the pot of gold. Some of the coins may
have fallen out
because the pot of gold is heavy. They need to put any coins they
find into
their bags. Let the children search for the pot that you have
hidden with heavy
rocks in the bottom covered with tissue paper and gold coins on
top (I use a black
plastic witch's pot I bought at Halloween). Have the finder or
finders bring
the pot back to the story circle and place it with the flannel
board pots.
Continue the story involving the children where appropriate
It was hard work but everyone was so glad when the gold was found.
They told King Sean where and who had found the gold and showed
him their Bags with some of the gold they had found. King Sean
told
them that because they had worked so hard they could keep the
gold and he even
gave them a little extra, because he was so happy they had found
the 12th pot of gold.
Pre-K
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members.
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