20+ St. Patrick's Day Activities: Kid's Co-op

Here's your complete guide to celebrating St Patrick's Day with kids, courtesy of all the great links at the Kid's Co-op party:

12 Activities for Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess

In honor of Read Across America and Dr. Suess' birthday this week, I'll be featuring some of the posts linked up at this month's Virtual Book Club for Kids. Today's features are play and food activities inspired by one of our favorite Suess books, Green Eggs and Ham. (Come back on Friday to see ideas for The Cat in the Hat and Saturday for The Foot Book.)

Coffee Filter Treat Packages for St. Patrick's Day

These treats are so easy your kids can help make them and so inexpensive you can hand them out to everybody this St. Patrick's Day!

5 Butterfly and Caterpillar Projects: Kid's Co-op

I must be ready for spring because these cute butterfly and caterpillar projects from the Kid's Co-op link party caught my eye:

Easy Rainbow and Pot of Gold Craft

3 Green Eggs and Ham Treats: Virtual Book Club for Kids

Welcome to the February edition of the Virtual Book Club for Kids where the featured author is Dr. Suess! Please link up your Suess projects below and find some new activities for old favorites.
 
We like to read Green Eggs and Ham. We could read it here. We could read it there. We could read it anywhere.

20+ Ways to Teach Preschoolers Numbers and Letters: Kid's Co-op

Happy Valentine's Day! Show your little valentines some love by teaching them about numbers and letters in fun new ways. The Kid's Co-op has been full of great ideas.

5 Simple Games for Teaching Number Recognition

These number recognition games are simple, don't require any fancy materials, and my preschoolers love to play them:

20 Activities Using Water: Kid's Co-op

My kids LOVE playing with water.  And I love that it's nontoxic, entertaining, and free!  The last two Kid's Co-op link parties were full of fun and educational ways to use water:

Kid Made Alphabet Books

Back in the olden days, before I even started kindergarten, my mom bought my sister and me each a blank scrapbook to make our own alphabet books. Mine was red and I L-O-V-E-D it. My sister and I went through old magazines and cut out letters and glued them in alphabetical order to each page of the scrapbook. We also cut out pictures we liked from the magazines and glued them to the page that corresponded with the initial sound.

Ten on the Sled: Number Recognition and Counting

My kids love the song "Ten in the Bed", so I knew they would like the book Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman.  Ten animals pile on the sled for a wild ride, but one by one they fall off!