MATH CRAFTIVITY March LEPRECHAUN
Activities included in this product: Leprechaun craft (slides #4-11) Pot of Gold Math Craft (slides #12-14) Math Task Card Activities (slides #14-22) There was a pot of coins with 7 gold coins and 3 silver coins. How many coins in all? 1 A boy found 6 coins. He found 4 more. How many coins did he find in all? 2 A leprechaun saw 8 coins in the clover field. He then saw 2 more coins. How many coins did he see? 3 5 coins were in a pot. A leprechaun added 5 more coins. How many coins were in the pot? 4 Word Problem Worksheets (slides #23-29) A leprechaun had a pot filled with gold and silver coins. He had gold coins. He had silver coins. How many coins did he have in all? coins Write an equation. + =
This math craftivity works well as a 5 day project. Day 1: Have students cut out and assemble their leprechauns Day 2-4: Using the gold coin cut outs and/or ten frames, have students solve word problems from the Pot of Gold Task Cards. Day 5: Students will write their own word problem or solve the word problem from the template, Leprechaun Pot of Gold. (slides #23-29)
Leprechaun Craft Preparation Materials Needed: glue, scissors, black, green (dark and light), white, orange, yellow construction paper Optional ( pink, red, orange pom-poms for nose) Copy or trace from the templates provided. 1 9 x 6 green (dark or light) construction paper (per student) 2 peach or tan circle for face (per student) 2 peach or tan hands (per student) 2 white arms (per student) 2 9 x 2 white stripes of construction paper for legs (per student) 2 9 x 2 orange or green strip of construction paper for stripes on legs (per student) 2 shoes green (per student) 1 6 x 1 strip of black construction paper for belt (per student) 2 orange beard (per student) 3 dark green, light green, or black hat (per student) 2 1 x 1 ½ yellow rectangles for belt and shoe buckles (per student) 1 shamrock (per student) scrap of white and black for eyes scrap of orange from beard for eyebrows scrap of pink for nose or pom-pom
Leprechaun Craft Directions 1. Give one large green rectangle to each student. 2. Put the green rectangle in front of you like a hotdog. Have students cut a V shape out of the center of the bottom edge of the rectangle to make pants. 3. Pass out head, arms, beard, hat, legs and shoes. 4. Cut out head. 5. Cut our beard. Cut slits around the bottom edge to make it look like hair. 6. Glue beard to the bottom of the head. 7. Glue head and beard to green rectangle (on the top edge without the V cut out of it.) 8. Cut out hat. 9. Glue hat on top of head. 10. Cut out arms. 11. Glue arms to the back of the green rectangle with the straight part of the sleeve hanging out and the round part being glued to top of green rectangle.
Leprechaun Craft Directions (continued) 11. Cut out hands. 12. Glue hands to the back of the arms under the sleeve. 13. Use the colored 9 x 2 strip and cut stripes for the legs. 14. Glue stripes on white strips. 15. Fold the strips like an accordion fold. (over, under) 16. Glue legs to the back of the body (one coming out of each pant leg) 17. Cut out shoes. 18. Glue shoes onto the legs. 19. Glue the black strip onto the middle of the body to make a belt. 20. Glue one yellow rectangle to make a belt buckle. 21. Cut the second yellow rectangle in half to make buckles for the shoes. 22. Use scrap paper to make eyes. 23. Glue eyes on the face. 24. Glue the pom-pom or scrap paper on the face for a nose. 25. Glue shamrocks onto the leprechaun s hand or hat. (optional) 26. If students want to use orange scraps to add eyebrows they may.
orange beard-1 per student
white arms -2 per student
dark green or light green shamrock-s optional boots-2 per student hat-1 per student
beige hands- 2 per student
Pot of Gold Math Craft Preparation Materials Needed: glue, scissors, black, white, green, yellow, gray construction paper, and optional dry erase markers Copy or trace from the templates provided. 1 12 x 18 white construction paper (per student) 1 large black pot gray and yellow coins (enough to solve problem) Directions: Have students cut out the black pot Glue pot to the top half of the 12 x18 white construction paper. Glue the word problem worksheet to the bottom half of the white construction paper. Add yellow and/or gray coins to the pot which solves the problem. (the answer)
large black pot- 1 per student for Leprechaun Math Activity
yellow and gray coins for craft and manipulatives
Directions for Math Activities Days 2-4 Pot of Gold Task Cards Word problem task cards can be laminated for an independent center or for a teacher directed small group lesson. Copy the coin template on yellow construction paper. Students can cut coins out to use as manipulatives. For younger students, I suggest cutting the coins out for them. Using the coins as manipulatives, have students solve the addition and subtraction problems on the Pot of Gold Task Cards. You may also give each student a copy of the ten frame (slide#22). We suggest either laminating it or putting it into a plastic page protector so students may solve problems by crossing out coins or coloring in the coins with dry erase markers. We have included a Task Card Recording Sheet for use at independent centers. Day 5 Making the Pot of Gold Math Craft Copy or trace the pot of gold on to black construction paper. Students cut out pot of gold. Glue on to the top half of 12x18 green construction paper. Copy coins on yellow (for gold) and gray (for silver) construction paper. Solving and Writing the Problem Give students the Leprechaun Pot of Gold worksheet (slides #23-24) or a blank template (slides #25-29) to write their own problem. Depending on students ability levels, students can either work with a teacher to write and solve the problems on the Leprechaun Pot of Gold worksheet or they can create their own on the blank templates. After students have written their word problem, they will glue the correct number of gray and yellow coins to illustrate their problem. Glue written math problem to the bottom half of the background paper. Hang word problems next to the leprechaun craft for a darling bulletin board.
There was a pot of coins with 7 gold coins and 3 silver coins. How many coins in all? 1 A boy found 6 coins. He found 4 more. How many coins did he find in all? 2 A leprechaun saw 8 coins in the clover field. He then saw 2 more coins. How many coins did he see? 3 5 coins were in a pot. A leprechaun added 5 more coins. How many coins were in the pot? 4
A leprechaun had 9 coins. He lost 6 coins. How many coins did he have left? 5 There were 2 leprechauns. They each had 6 coins. How many coins did they have in all? 6 A leprechaun had 15 coins. He used 4 to buy a new hat. How many coins did he have left? 7 A leprechaun had 6 gold, 5 silver, and 3 copper coins. How many coins did he have in all? 8
A leprechaun s pot had 2 silver coins and 3 gold coins. How many coins did he have in all? 9 The pot of gold had 8 coins. 2 coins fell out. How many coins were left? 10 A leprechaun had gold and silver coins. He had 4 of each color. How many coins did he have in all? 11 Louie the Leprechaun had10 coins. He gave 3 away. How many coins did he have left? 12
A girl had 12 coins. Her brother had 8 coins. How many more coins did the girl have than her brother? 13 Louie the Leprechaun was trying to find coins. He found 6 gold coins and 7 silver coins. How many coins did Louie find? 14 A leprechaun had 14 coins. He gave some to his friend. The leprechaun had 4 left. How many coins did he give to his friend? 15 The leprechaun had 3 pots of gold. Each pot had 6 coins. How many coins did he have in all? 16
The leprechaun had 18 coins. He lost 12 coins. How many did he still have? 17 A leprechaun had many coins. He lost 6. He had 9 left. How many coins did he start with? 18 There were 16 coins. The same number of coins were in each of the 4 pots of gold. How many coins were in each pot of gold? 19 Lucky the Leprechaun had 17 coins. He gave some to his friend Louie. Lucky had 6 left. How many coins did he give to Louie? 20
Name: Task Card Recording Sheet 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Name: Task Card Recording Sheet 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Coin Ten Frame Coin Ten Frame
A leprechaun had a pot filled with gold and silver coins. He had gold coins. He had silver coins. How many coins did he have in all? coins Write an equation. + =
A leprechaun had a pot filled with gold and silver coins. He had gold coins. He had silver coins. How many coins did he have in all? coins Write an equation. + =
Lucky Leprechuan
Lucky Leprechaun
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