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Have your children sit with you in a circle and place a black pot in the middle. |
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Give each child a cardboard circle covered with gold foil for a gold coin. |
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Write the word “gold” on a card and point out to your children that the word begins with the letter “g” and it makes the “ga” |
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Have your children take turns saying the word “gold” emphasizing the sound of the “g”. |
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Now ask them to name other words that start with the “g” sound. |
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Then go around the circle and have your children take turns dropping their gold coins in the pot as they say a “g” word. |
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Variation: Another variation of this game would be to print different letters on the gold coins. Mix up the coins and one at a time let your children sort through the coins and only place the coins with the letter "g” into the black pot.
Variation: You could play both of the games above use the letter “s” and making small green shamrock shapes for your game. |
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SHAMROCK WORDS
This game is for older children who can sound out short 3-letter words.
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Make a large amount of light green felt hearts. |
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Using a black marking pen, write different letters on each heart, duplicating common used letters. |
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Set out the felt hearts and a felt board. |
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Let your children take turns choosing three hearts that spell a word, then placing the hearts together to make a shamrock. |
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