All the Ants Wear Green Pants on St. Patrick's Day.

(Illustration from Stephen Sheen's delightful story: Miggie Gets Some Pants)

One of the more ridiculous and amusing activities I roll out every March is my kindergarten rhyming emergent reader about animals getting dressed for St. Patrick's Day.  I like to sing the rhymes to the tune of (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
I have a "big" flannel board version of the rhyme that I made.  The kids love dressing the animals as we sing.

All the ants wear green pants, wear green pants, wear green pantsAll the ants wear green pants for St. Patrick's Day

The ants wear green pants...
The pigs wear green wigs...
The cats wear green hats...

and... you get the idea.

The kids have trouble with the crows (bows) and the ewes (shoes), but they love learning new words.
Print the poem in a fold-able quarter-page sized book here:
odd pages  even pages


Other activities related to the holiday include
3rd/4th grade: writing "Green Poetry" in Word, then formatting and adding clip art.
2nd grade:  drawing leprechauns according to a glyph