St. Patrick's Day Beginning Sounds Freebie

I thought I would surprise you all with a cute St. Patrick’s Day Beginning Sounds activity! Best of all, the entire unit is FREE! To download this freebie, scroll to the end of this post to get links to my online stores.

So… let’s see what’s included!

Firstly, there is a colored matching activity. I LOVE all things colorful and beautiful images make learning more fun – at least, they do for me 😉

FREE printable St. Patrick's Day beginning sounds center activity with recording pages

To prepare the activity for use, print all the pages (cardstock is preferable, but not necessary). Laminate them for durability and then cut out the pots and shamrocks. If you’re going to use these in your classroom yearly and are worried about little fingers picking away at the edges and un-sticking the laminating that you have done, you can cut out the pictures BEFORE laminating and then, once laminated, you cut out around the shape leaving a small edge of “lamination”. Of course, this does require cutting two times… I guess this is a good time to call in your parent helpers 😉

The aim of this St. Patrick’s Day activity is for children to match the letters on the shamrocks to the pictures on the pots of gold.

You can turn this into a fine motor activity by adding household pegs to the shamrocks.

FREE St. Patrick's Day Beginning Sounds Activity

FREE St. Patrick's Day Beginning Sounds. Add pegs to the shamrocks to make it a fine motor activity

Included are also some worksheets. They can be completed independently, so there is no need for you to print both the activity and worksheets. If you want to save on ink, the worksheets on their own will be just as fun for your kiddos. For children who have difficult writing, try using stamps instead of asking them to write the letters.

FREE St. Patrick's Day Beginning Sounds worksheets

FREE St. Patrick's Day Beginning Sounds worksheets. Use with stamps for younger children who cannot yet form letters

Of course, you can also have children do the activity and then the worksheet as a way to record their answers. If this is what you’d like to do, store the gold pots and shamrocks together with the worksheet in a plastic pocket. How do I store activities at our place? Well, once upon a time, I used to love plastic pockets and zip-lock bags. However, the zip-lock bags soon began to rip at the bottom and I had to find another solution. I now store things in plastic tubs that I purchase only when on sale or from dollar stores, like Uncle Buck’s (Australia). I keep the worksheets in plastic sleeves inside a binder.