Activities
🍀 Language Arts
1. Encourage your students to write General Mills with the results from this project or with any questions they might have.
General Mills, Inc.
P.O. Box 9452
Minneapolis, MN 55440
2. Send a tweet to Lucky Charms @Lucky Charms. Share a pic of your class sorting & graphing, share your results or ask a question~ A great way to provide your students with an authentic audience!
3. Read: How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace. Use the Novel Effect app to add an amazing soundscape as you are reading!
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4. Rainbow Writing
Have your students pick 3-5 colors and "Rainbow Write" their spelling words.
Here's a Seesaw Activity template that you can use for Rainbow Writing ----------------->
5. Have your students create a new marshmallow shape that they would like to add to the
Lucky Charms box. Have them write about their shape.
6. Wander over to ABCya and play the Word Search game (easy and harder levels)
http://www.abcya.com/word_search_saint_patricks_day.htm
7. Journal Ideas:
If I found a pot of gold, I would...
What does it mean to be lucky?
What is the luckiest thing that ever happened to you?
🍀 Math, Coding, STEAM
1. Have students create patterns using their Lucky Charms marshmallows.
2. Do your kiddos code? Students use critical thinking skills to code a path from
the leprechaun to his pot of gold with this Seesaw Coding Activity ---------->
3. Do you have Bee-Bots? Print off this Lucky Charms Bee-Bot mat and place
pieces under the plastic overlay. Students will program the Bee-Bot
starting at the leprechaun and then travel around the grid to pick up all
of the marshmallow pieces and end at the pot of gold.
4. Have students create word problems for their peers to solve.
Example: 3 Green Clovers + 3 Blue Moons = Total Lucky Charms.
5. Using a ruler -- place your Lucky Charms on a line to figure out how many
Lucky Charms marshmallows it takes to make 1 foot.
FOR FUN -- have your students pick items around the room and use Lucky Charms to measure their length.
6. Assign currency values to each Lucky Charm (heart=1 cent, moon=5 cents, etc) Assign prices to certain items in your class and have your
students figure out how many Lucky Charms they would need to purchase that item.
7. Purchase the book "Cereal Math". Boost kids' math skills with these irresistible, hands-on activities using cereal! Students will create a
cereal abacus, estimate how many raisins are in "two scoops", use Venn diagrams to sort and classify cereal by attributes, collect and
graph data, explore patterns, and more! Click this link to find the book on Amazon.com
8. Display a jar filled with pennies or candy coins to resemble gold coins in your classroom. Have students estimate how many coins are in
the "pot of gold". Place the pot at the end of a large laminated rainbow. If you laminate the rainbow, the estimates can be written on the
rainbow using a wipe-off pen. Group the pennies or candy coins by tens, and count to check your estimates. (idea found here)
1. Have students create patterns using their Lucky Charms marshmallows.
2. Do your kiddos code? Students use critical thinking skills to code a path from
the leprechaun to his pot of gold with this Seesaw Coding Activity ---------->
3. Do you have Bee-Bots? Print off this Lucky Charms Bee-Bot mat and place
pieces under the plastic overlay. Students will program the Bee-Bot
starting at the leprechaun and then travel around the grid to pick up all
of the marshmallow pieces and end at the pot of gold.
4. Have students create word problems for their peers to solve.
Example: 3 Green Clovers + 3 Blue Moons = Total Lucky Charms.
5. Using a ruler -- place your Lucky Charms on a line to figure out how many
Lucky Charms marshmallows it takes to make 1 foot.
FOR FUN -- have your students pick items around the room and use Lucky Charms to measure their length.
6. Assign currency values to each Lucky Charm (heart=1 cent, moon=5 cents, etc) Assign prices to certain items in your class and have your
students figure out how many Lucky Charms they would need to purchase that item.
7. Purchase the book "Cereal Math". Boost kids' math skills with these irresistible, hands-on activities using cereal! Students will create a
cereal abacus, estimate how many raisins are in "two scoops", use Venn diagrams to sort and classify cereal by attributes, collect and
graph data, explore patterns, and more! Click this link to find the book on Amazon.com
8. Display a jar filled with pennies or candy coins to resemble gold coins in your classroom. Have students estimate how many coins are in
the "pot of gold". Place the pot at the end of a large laminated rainbow. If you laminate the rainbow, the estimates can be written on the
rainbow using a wipe-off pen. Group the pennies or candy coins by tens, and count to check your estimates. (idea found here)
9. Create a leprechaun trap and have your students share the three wishes they would make if they caught a leprechaun. Thanks to Robin Schumacher for this Seesaw activity ------------------------------>
🍀 Technology Twist
1. Create a Let's Stick Together account (free). Create and share a St. Patrick's Day virtual stickerboard for your students to complete
synchronously or asynchronously. Click here for more info.
2. Have your students use their critical thinking skills to complete the Silly Shamrocks
Digital BreakoutEdu. ☘️ A wee bit of fun you'll have, but remember, you only have
30 minutes! For younger students, consider doing this together as a whole class
on an interactive whiteboard. 2nd & 3rd graders could do with a partner ----------------->
3. Download the app PicCollage (free) or PicCollageEdu (kid-friendly) and have your
students create a collage of your Lucky Charm Day then share with parents on Seesaw or
share to Twitter with our hashtag, #SPDProject23
4. Create a PADLET board (https://padlet.com) and invite other participating classrooms to share
their results with your class.
5. Use the DOINK Green Screen App -- find some pictures of Ireland using Photos For Class (http://www.photosforclass.com) -- and green
screen your kids into a St. Patrick's day location.
6. Using software such as audacity, (https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity) or Garageband, have your students record St. Patrick's Day
Poems, Limericks, Jokes, etc and then adjust the speed level of the voice so that it sounds like a leprechaun.
1. Create a Let's Stick Together account (free). Create and share a St. Patrick's Day virtual stickerboard for your students to complete
synchronously or asynchronously. Click here for more info.
2. Have your students use their critical thinking skills to complete the Silly Shamrocks
Digital BreakoutEdu. ☘️ A wee bit of fun you'll have, but remember, you only have
30 minutes! For younger students, consider doing this together as a whole class
on an interactive whiteboard. 2nd & 3rd graders could do with a partner ----------------->
3. Download the app PicCollage (free) or PicCollageEdu (kid-friendly) and have your
students create a collage of your Lucky Charm Day then share with parents on Seesaw or
share to Twitter with our hashtag, #SPDProject23
4. Create a PADLET board (https://padlet.com) and invite other participating classrooms to share
their results with your class.
5. Use the DOINK Green Screen App -- find some pictures of Ireland using Photos For Class (http://www.photosforclass.com) -- and green
screen your kids into a St. Patrick's day location.
6. Using software such as audacity, (https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity) or Garageband, have your students record St. Patrick's Day
Poems, Limericks, Jokes, etc and then adjust the speed level of the voice so that it sounds like a leprechaun.
🍀 St. Patrick's Day
1. Just for fun~print these adorable tags from Amanda Newsome's TPT store for your students -->
2. Check out these Lucky Charms coloring pages
3. Scholastic has a fun persuasive writing lesson to use when teaching about the Blarney Stone.
4. Primary Games has eight St. Patrick's Day Games (best used with 2nd grade and up)
5. Green Shaving Cream Art:
Add a few drops of green paint to shaving cream. Have the children use this to paint with or
write their sight words on their desks. (To clean quickly -- add soap to paint FIRST!).
6. Shamrock Rubbings:
Cut shamrock shapes from paper doilies or sandpaper. Tape these shamrocks to the table.
Have students place a piece of white paper over the shamrocks and rub a crayon over the shamrock.
7. Shamrock Hop:
Place shamrock shapes on the floor. Have the children hop from one shamrock to the next.
8. Treasure Hunt:
Draw a simple map of your class/school. Cut out large shapes of Lucky Charms. Hide each shape somewhere in your classroom/school.
Explain the map to your students. Draw X's on the map where you have hidden the shapes. Let your students find the shapes
by using the map.
9. Leprechaun Mischief:
While the children are out playing or before they arrive make some silly changes in the room like putting things out of place, hiding things,
leaving gold chocolate coins, etc. Leave green footprints blame it on the leprechaun when they come in. Explain all about St. Patrick's day
and leprechauns. (found at Slow Family Blog)
10. Leprechaun Bait
Make and enjoy a batch of Leprechaun Bait with your class. Break off pieces and add them to a cellophane bag.
Twist and seal the tops using a decorative St. Patrick's Day ribbon.
1. Just for fun~print these adorable tags from Amanda Newsome's TPT store for your students -->
2. Check out these Lucky Charms coloring pages
3. Scholastic has a fun persuasive writing lesson to use when teaching about the Blarney Stone.
4. Primary Games has eight St. Patrick's Day Games (best used with 2nd grade and up)
5. Green Shaving Cream Art:
Add a few drops of green paint to shaving cream. Have the children use this to paint with or
write their sight words on their desks. (To clean quickly -- add soap to paint FIRST!).
6. Shamrock Rubbings:
Cut shamrock shapes from paper doilies or sandpaper. Tape these shamrocks to the table.
Have students place a piece of white paper over the shamrocks and rub a crayon over the shamrock.
7. Shamrock Hop:
Place shamrock shapes on the floor. Have the children hop from one shamrock to the next.
8. Treasure Hunt:
Draw a simple map of your class/school. Cut out large shapes of Lucky Charms. Hide each shape somewhere in your classroom/school.
Explain the map to your students. Draw X's on the map where you have hidden the shapes. Let your students find the shapes
by using the map.
9. Leprechaun Mischief:
While the children are out playing or before they arrive make some silly changes in the room like putting things out of place, hiding things,
leaving gold chocolate coins, etc. Leave green footprints blame it on the leprechaun when they come in. Explain all about St. Patrick's day
and leprechauns. (found at Slow Family Blog)
10. Leprechaun Bait
Make and enjoy a batch of Leprechaun Bait with your class. Break off pieces and add them to a cellophane bag.
Twist and seal the tops using a decorative St. Patrick's Day ribbon.