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Celebrate the Color Green Theme and Activities

March is the month for celebrating St.Patrick's Day and Spring. There are plentiful resources for curriculum planning for these themes. Take on a new perspective and explore the color of the season with the children; celebrate green!

Make Things Green

Magic Pudding
Place 1 tablespoon of pistacio pudding mix into a sterilized baby food jar for each child. Add 2 tablespoons of cold milk and watch as the contents turn green. Have the children shake their jars (careful not to drop them) for about 45 seconds.

Cornstarch Finger Paint
3 tbsps. sugar
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 cups cold water
Food coloring
Soap flakes or liquid dishwashing soap
Mix sugar and cornstarch in medium saucepan over low heat. Add cold water and stir until mixture is thick. Remove from heat. Divide into four or five portions (in muffin tins or cups). Add a drop or two of food coloring to each portion and a pinch of soap flakes or soap. Stir and let cool. Store in airtight container.

Green Playdough
1 cup flour
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 cup water
1/2 cup salt }
2 tsp. cream of tartar
Food coloring
Mix all ingredients in saucepan. Heat, stirring constantly until ball forms. Cool and knead until smooth.

Sing About Green

"It's Not Easy Bein' Green"
Where is Green? (Give each child a paper cutout with a different color)
Teacher:Where is Green child, where is Green child?
(child with green paper stands and sings: Here I am, Here I am!
Teacher: How are you today sir/maam?
Child: Very well I thank you
All: Sit right down, Sit right down. (continue with the other colors)

If your Clothes Have Any Tune: If your'e happy and you know it
If your clothes have any green on clap your hands...
continue with other colors

Green Animal Fun

5 Little Speckled Frogs
5 little speckled frogs sitting on a speckled log eating the most delicious bugs YUM YUM
One jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool
now there are 4 speckled frogs GLUB, GLUB... repeat until no are left

Five Little Froggies
Five little froggies sitting on a well
One looked up and down he fell
Froggies jumped high, Froggies jumped low
Four little froggies danced to and fro.
Four little froggies.. (continue until there are no little froggies left)

There Was a Little Turtle
There was a little turtle (make a small circle with your hands)
He lived in a box, (make a box with both hands)
He swam in a puddle, (wiggle hands)
He climbed on the rocks. (climb fingers of one hand up over the other)
He snapped at a mosquito, (clap hands)
He snapped at a flea, (clap hands)
He snapped at a minnow, (clap hands)
He snapped at me. (point to yourself)
He caught the mosquito, (mimic catching a bug)
He caught the flea (same action)
He caught the minnow, (same action)
But he didn't catch me!

Read About Green

Fun With Green

What Do You See?
In advance draw a teddy bear face onto several different colors of construction paper.. Glue the bears onto craft sticks. During group time pass a bear out to each child. Chant the following rhyme: Green bear,green bear what do you see? The child or children with the green bear must stand up and identify something in the room that is green. Continue with the other colors.

Sand and Water Table
Add green food coloring to water and freeze. Add green ice cubes to the water table. Color uncooked rice with green food coloring for a change in the sand table.