054.C.W01.F2F - St Patrick's Day

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Description

Story Game
Potatoes and Ireland
Hot potato
Cabbage Crawl
Irish music - Musical statues/chairs
Leprechauns
Craft - Leprechaun Finger Puppets
Food
Quiz
Catch the snakes
Leprechaun game

Resources

Story
Story labels
Quiz - 1 per person / between 2 / per team
Quiz answers
Pens/pencils
Tables
Leprechaun Finger Puppet template - 1 per person
Double sided tape
Scissors
Orange wool
Bean Bags
Bins x2 - Rubbish and recycling
Cups
Washing up liquid
Water
Washing up bowl
Crisps
Leprechaun juice
- Green food colouring
- Lemonade
Irish music
Chairs
One ball (head of cabbage) per team
Paper Clips
Pictures of Snakes
Magnets
String (~1m per rod)
Bamboo Canes
Pictures of Ireland - 1 per team
Blindfold (neckers)
Cones
Washing up bowls for game (plastic) - 1 per team
Pot of gold (could use keys)
Tape

Instructions

Prep
Story
Story labels
Put labels on walls

Catch the snakes
Rods:
Magnets
String (~1m per rod)
Bamboo Canes
Tie a magnet to a cane using ~1m of string per rod.

Snakes:
Paper Clips
Pictures of Snakes
Put a paperclip on each picture of a snake

“Ireland”:
Pictures of Snakes with paperclips on
Washing up bowls for game (plastic) - 1 per team
Pictures of Ireland - 1 per team
Tape
Put snakes in bowls (same number in each bowl) and tape Ireland pictures to side.

Leprechaun juice:
Add green food colouring to lemonade

ACTIVITES

Story Game
Resources
Story
Story labels

Assign words to a wall/corner. Someone reads out the story and the YPs run to the relevant wall/corner when they hear that word in the story.

Potatoes and Ireland
Many poor people grew potatoes for food. Potatoes grew on poor soil, even in wet and cold conditions.

When a potato disease (blight) arrived, it was a disaster. Potatoes went rotten, and were not fit to eat. People went hungry. More than 1 million people starved to death. Many more got sick. In Ireland, one in four people died or emigrated. The potato famine of 1846 to 1852 was one of the worst events in Irish history.

Hot potato
Resources
Bean Bags

Version 1
Have the players sit in a circle.
One player sits in the middle of the circle; this player is the leprechaun.
The leprechaun starts the game by throwing a "potato" to one of the players in the circle.
The leprechaun then closes their eyes and keeps them closed while the potato is passed among the players in the circle.
After the potato has been passed for a while, the leprechaun shouts a colour of the rainbow.
The player holding the potato at that moment leaves the circle and is out of the game.
Play continues until only one player is left in the circle.
That player is the winner and gets to be the leprechaun for the next game.
Keep playing until each player has had a turn as the leprechaun

Rules
If someone throws the potato so the next person can’t catch it and a colour is called the thrower is out
If the potato is mid air when a colour is called no one is out

Version 2
Each person runs up the hall tossing the ‘potato’, you cannot have it in your hands for more than a second before you have to toss it in the air. There and back and toss it to the next member.

Cabbage Crawl
Resources
One ball (head of cabbage) per team

Players must get down on their hands and knees and push their ‘head of cabbage’ to the other side of the room and back again using just their head. The first team to have everyone back wins.

Irish music - Musical statues/chairs
Resources
Irish music
Chairs

Musical statues
Dancing in the style of Irish dancing to Irish music. Person spotting for the statues is the leprechaun.

Musical chairs
Same as usual rules, just with Irish music.

Leprechauns
A leprechaun is a type of fairy in Irish folklore, usually taking the form of an old man, clad in a red or green coat, who enjoys partaking in mischief. The Leprechauns spend all their time busily making shoes, and store away all their coins in a hidden pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If ever captured by a human, the Leprechaun has the magical power to grant three wishes in exchange for their release.

Craft - Leprechaun Finger Puppets
Resources
Leprechaun Finger Puppet template - 1 per person
Double sided tape
Scissors
Orange wool
Tables
Chairs
Bins x2 - Rubbish and recycling

Food
Resources
Cups
Crisps
Tables
Chairs
Washing up liquid
Water
Washing up bowl
Bin - Rubbish
Leprechaun juice
- Green food colouring
- Lemonade

What are crisps made from? We are going to have a snack of crisps and leprechaun juice!

Add green food colouring to lemonade

Quiz
Resources
Quiz - 1 per person / between 2 / per team
Quiz answers
Pens/pencils
Tables
Chairs

Give out quiz sheets and pens/pencils.
Read out answers.

Catch the snakes
Resources
Rods (see Prep)
“Ireland” (see Prep)
Table
Cones
Put “Ireland” (1 per team) on the table with a rod

Place a bowl of snakes at the other end of the hall in front of each team
Put a rod next to each bowl
YP form up in teams at one end of the hall, explain that the bowl represents Ireland and that they are going to be St Patrick and that they have to "rid" Ireland of all the "snakes"
One at a time the YPs run up and try to catch at least 1 snake, once they have caught a snake they return to their team with the snake and the next person goes
First team to empty their "Ireland" of snakes wins, or set a time limit and count how many are left (lowest number of snakes left to catch wins)

Rules
YPs must not run with the rod
Their turn ends once they have caught at least 1 snake
If they catch more than 1 snake at a time that’s fine they can take them all

Leprechaun game
Resources
Blindfold (neckers)
Pot of gold (could use keys)
Chair

Blindfold a YP (the leprechaun)
Sit them in the middle of a large circle with the ‘pot of gold’.

Another YP is selected to be the catcher, they must enter the circle to steal the gold without being detected.

The leprechaun can use their magic powers to make the catcher speak at any time by saying a colour, the catcher and all the other YPs must say the colour back to the leprechaun. The leprechaun can say a new colour at any time they want to.

054.C.W01.F2F - St Patrick's Day

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