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Making the most of holidays, even the small ones, is one of the many benefits of homeschooling. Whether it’s Valentine’s Day, Ground Hog Day, Presidents Day or one of a dozen other special days on the calendar, there are loads of ways to turn it into a fun, educational experience. And St. Patrick’s Day is no different! There are gobs of great St. Patrick’s Day activities out there from which to choose. And, here is one of my all time favorites…
Little Blue and Little Yellow: a St. Patrick’s Day Activity
Long ago, while living in a foreign country, I wanted to make sugar cookies and have my students decorate them as a fun little St. Patrick’s Day treat. But I could not find a shamrock-shaped cookie cutter anywhere so had to get creative with my approach. I ended up making simple round cookies and using a book by the classic author, Leo Lionni, to create an easy, fun and tasty St. Patrick’s Day activity!
And I have repeated the lesson dozens of times since then! I’ve done it for stateside First Grade students, MOPS toddlers, homeschool co-op children and, of course, my own kid. Everybody loves it! And it’s super duper easy! {And, better yet, it’s YUMMY!}
Materials needed:
round cookies
white canned frosting
blue and yellow food coloring and
a copy of Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lioni.
That’s it!
The story is short and sweet.
It’s about a little blue blob and a little yellow blob who are best friends…
…who accidentally run into some trouble.
But, thankfully, they are able to solve their issue in the end.
The lesson from the story can be as simple as
blue + yellow = green
or as deep as
stay true to yourself and don’t lose your identity.
But no matter how serious you make the book discussion, the kids will love the next part!
Give them each a cookie, a small blob of yellow frosting and a small blob of blue frosting.
Have each kid mix the two blobs together to make green frosting.
Then they can decorate the cookie and enjoy a treat!
That’s it! It’s a super easy, fun and tasty activity!
Such a cute activity to learn about color mixing!
Cute idea for sure. Will be passing this on to my grandkids. They will love doing this. Pinned it!
Great activities for learning with cookie and colors a wonderful way to sp6time with my grandchildren!
aw this looks like such a cute little activity I could do with my son ❤
Very cute!
awww i love this!!!! so simple and sweet
How fun…and delicious! 🙂
What a great activity for kids. It is so simple.
I would have loved to use cookies to learn color mixing. What a great idea!
These are so cute! We are going to share with other family members and watch them have some fun mixing colors.
Great way to get that perfect color of green!
Way to improvise and create a learning activity at the same time!
How fun! I love color blending to begin with – great way to expose kids and make a sweet treat!
The kids would love this thank you for sharing.
Super cute and creative!
I’m guessing icing the cookies really brought the lesson home.
How fun is this! Wish my kids were still young enough to do this – sharing with a friend.
A cool activity for color blending
Great way to teach the kiddos about color and have a tasty snack too!
This is such a good idea! I’ll be using it for inspiration for my daycare kids. Thank you!
This is so cute and creative especially for the little ones!
How adorable! Very easy to do too!
Very Cute!
Such a cute activity for those with little ones in their lives!
I love fun, yummy learning activities! So awesome!
What a cute idea!
How creative is that! Just love the book concept and the activity!
My kids would love this. We love celebrating every holiday.
This is so cute! My boys would love this!
This is a great activity. I will try. it with my son this week.
What a fun activity! I’m going to find this book and do this with my kids!