St Patricks Day Playdough Activity for Preschoolers
st patricks day playdough
nhance your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations with some delightful and engaging St. Patrick’s Day playdough! This playful activity is not only a fantastic way to promote creativity and imaginative play, but it’s also perfect for practicing counting, forming numbers, and strengthening those little hands as they roll out adorable shamrocks!
Making your own St. Patrick’s Day playdough is super easy and can be a fun project to do with your little ones. Whether you have toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, or even first graders at home, this activity is suitable for all ages and will have them learning while having a blast. Plus, there’s something truly special about celebrating holidays with homemade crafts and activities!
Imagine your kids giggling as they mold bright green dough into festive shapes like rainbows, leprechauns, and, of course, shamrocks! Not only will they enjoy the sensory experience of squishing and rolling the playdough, but you can also turn it into a learning opportunity. While they play, encourage them to count out shamrocks or create simple math problems involving the number of shapes they’ve made!
Whipping up a batch of this easy-to-make St. Patrick’s Day playdough will not only fill your home with fun but also prepare you for an exciting hands-on activity this March. So gather your ingredients and get ready to create some magical memories.
Plus don’t miss all our fun st patricks day activities for preschoolers including leprechaun slime and this pretty paper plate rainbow craft.
st patrick’s day playdough
All you need to make this EASY playdough recipe for March are a couple simple materials you probably already have on hand in your kitchen:
- 2 and 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
- 1 and 1/2 cups of boiling water
- 1/2 cup salt
- 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons of cream of tartar
- green Food Coloring
- Chunky gold Glittler
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In a large bowl or mixer {I used my pretty red kitchen aid mixer} combine flour, salt, cream of tartar and the vegetable oil. Mix it together. Slowly add the boiling water and mix until it’s completely combined. ONce it is cool enough to handle, it’s time to get in there and knead that dough until it is ready for play, just a couple minutes.
st patricks day playdoh
Help children strengthen hand muscles, express creativity, and have fun creating with this fun playdough. We love to use cookie cutters, roll out long snakes, and make creative leprechaun lands!
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My kids liked making impresssions on the dough with their hands.
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This is such a fun, playful way to celebrate Saint Patricks Day with your kids at home or in the classroom.
St patricks day free printables
Looking for more fun, free saint patricks day printable ideas and activities for March? You will love these free resources for toddler, preschool, and kindergarten age students.:
- Hands-ton St Patrick’s Day Counting, free St patrick’s day for preschoolers activity pages
- Pre-writing Free St Patrick’s Day Printables Tracing Strips, Color by Letter St Patricks Day Worksheets, and Leprechaun Hat Letter Tracing St Patrick’s Day Printables
- Rainbow Alphabet St Patrick’s Day Activities, Fruit Loops St Patrick’s day Printables activity, count and trace St patrick’s day preschool activities
- St Patrick’s Day Color by Number Worksheets, find the letter St Patricks Day Worksheets, free Count to 20 Puzzles or these St Patrick’s Day Preschool Activities
- I Spy St Patricks Day Printables, free St Patricks Coloring Pages, printable St Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt, hands-onSt. Patrick’s Day Printables write the room
- Clover Letter Find St Patrick’s Day Worksheets and clover pattern strips St Patrick’s Day Printables for Preschool, and St Patricks Day Math Worksheets
- St Patricks Day for Kindergarten counting with ten frames, pot of gold St Patrick Day Activities sorting beginning letter sounds coins, St Patricks Day Math Craft, free St Patrick’s Day Color by Number Hundreds Chart, and addition St Patrick’s Day Worksheets
- Learn about Ireland for Kids with printable mini-books or Ireland Coloring Pages
- Free st patrick day printables Addition BINGO, Pot of Gold Addition Game, Pot of Gold Math St Patricks Day Activity, and Rainbow Read, Rhyme and Dab St Patricks Day Activity
- Rhyming Rainbows St Patricks Day for Kindergarten, free March Writing Prompts Calendar, Color by Number Leprechaun Hat Template Free, and reading comprehension with these St Patricks Day Worksheets
St Patrick’s Day Activities
- You can find all our st patrick’s day activities for kids here
- SLIMES: Leprechaun Slime St Patricks Day Activity, Pot of Gold Slime St Patricks Day slime, Green Contact Solution Slime, Beautiful Rainbow Slime, or sparkly green St Patrick’s Day slime
- Color Hunt St Patricks Day Activity for Toddlers and Flecks of gold St Patricks Day Playdough
- Mr Lucky shamrock St patrick’s day crafts for preschoolers, beautiful st patricks day art with free templates, easy Rainbow Cloud Craft, lots of fun St Patrick’s Day Preschool Crafts
- Cute st patrick’s day handprint craft, construction paper Handprint Rainbow craft or St patricks day art for kindergarten with kids own hands
- Simple rainbow hanging craft or name Pot of Gold Craft preschool