Learning Activities Using Shamrocks

A while back I shared a roundup of shamrock themed math activities, and I thought it was time to share some more fun learning activities that you can do with shamrocks because they’re such a fun shape.

Make a simple lacing card with this template from Carrots are Orange to give kids a little practice with their fine motor skills. (You can find more shamrock templates for this or other crafts at The Artisan Life, or search online for more.)

If you happen to have some green craft foam or felt you can make this easy shape puzzle game from Little Family Fun. You could even make it a sort of scavenger hunt, hiding the pieces around the room and then have kids match them up. Make this a language arts activity by writing an upper case letter on one half and the corresponding lower case letter on the other. Or you can pair up sight words, prefixes and suffixes, or numerals with the word for the number, to name a few.

Speaking of number matching, there’s a printable from Team Cartwright that takes it a step further, with shamrocks you can cut apart and each petal shows the number presented in a different way so kids have to find them, match them up and put them back together. (There’s also a color by number printable here.)

Play with patterns and simple shapes with these building block shamrocks from JDaniel4’s Mom. You can use small building blocks and construction paper to reinforce that these things are the same shapes, or just use one or the other, whatever you have on hand that’s easy for you.

Do a little shamrock counting and coloring with these super cute printables from Crystal & Comp. Kids can color the rainbow and color and count the shamrocks, then write the numbers and the word for the number with the help of a tracing section at the bottom (or cut that part off and have older kids write the words and numerals on their own).

And get kids moving by hiding shamrocks all over the room/house and playing the shamrock math race game from Coffee Cups and Crayons. Super easy to set up and kids can play it endlessly!

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Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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