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Can You Find a Four-leaf Clover?

Let's Learn About Green!


Snow is melting, trees and plants are budding out and St. Paddy has his day – March is a great time to focus on the color green.

  • Learn what green is made of. Read the charming Little Blue and Little Yellow (HarperTrophy, 1995) by Leo Lionni.

  • Serve up some green veggies. Kids tend to like vegetables best when they are served raw and crunchy. Try serving broccoli trees. Lay halved baby carrots flat in the middle of the plate for the "trunks," arrange broccoli florets at one end of the carrots for the "leaves" and a little creamy dip (such as ranch dressing) poured around the other end of the carrots for the "ground."

  • Have a St. Patrick's Day treasure hunt! Denise Orsini of Morgantown, Pa., surprised her 6-year-old daughter, Bella, and friends with a leprechaun chase that ended in a "pot of gold." Orsini mixed water and blue and green food coloring in a spray bottle, then sprayed a trail of "leprechaun tracks" in the snow around her yard. Soon, the whole neighborhood was involved. She and her husband filled a black plastic Halloween cauldron with candy, and left it at the end of the trail of green tracks.

    "Bella figured [the leprechaun] left candy instead of gold because he knew kids were chasing him, and they'd rather have the candy!" says Orsini. No snow in March where you live? Orsini recommends leaving a trail of green shamrocks cut out of construction paper.

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