Home Depot, Michael’s and the Dollar Tree are my three favorite stores when looking for ideas for creating teaching activities. During any holiday, Michael’s Craft Store has oodles of fun items that can add a little holiday spirit into your small group activities. While perusing the St. Patrick’s Day section, I found these adorable plastic shamrock gems, plastic gold coins and mini-leprechan hats. Instead of using the plastic counting tiles or blocks during phoneme segmentation activities, try using one of one these items. The gems and coins can be used instead of the tiles on the downloadable “Squaring Up” activity and students can simply move a hat for each sound in a given word.
Helpful Hint: Check out the Spring section, too. Cute little fuzzy chicks and little plastic eggs are now available.
Other St. Partick’s Day activities:
Lucky You! A CVC St. Patrick’s Day Game
Pot O’ Gold St. Patrick’s Day Word Family Game
