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Read.Explore.Learn.- Leprechauns Never Lie

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Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie into children’s books.

I look forward to seeing the ways you have learned with and explored books.

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My Book Tie-Ins of the Week:
St. Patrick's Day Activities: Leprechauns Never Lie Learning Fun
The leprechaun in Leprechauns Never Lie by Lorna Balian is a very tricky guy. Ninny Nanny and her Gram are in dire straits prior to catching the leprechaun. Once he has been accidentally captured when Ninny Nanny falls over a log and onto him, the leprechaun appears to forget where he has hidden his gold.

The leprechaun first tells them that he thinks it is in the straw that was to have been put on the roof of the thatched house to repair the holes that exist there. Ninny Nanny tries spreading it on the ground and finds moving it to the roof is the best solution.

Then he says it is in a pile of branches under a tree that should have been taken in as firewood. Gran sorts through branches to look for coins and Ninny Nanny carries them into the fireplace.

Next, he says it is in the river. Ninny Nanny has to drag buckets of the water to a water barrel outside their house that is empty when dropping it on the ground fails to keep the water from flowing back into the river.

Finally, he remembers it was moved to the potato patch that is filled with potatoes that Ninny Nanny had been too lazy to dig up. After digging up all but one plant, Ninny Nanny is furious that the treasure can’t be found.

She is so upset that she releases the leprechaun in a fit of anger. He runs as fast as he can away.

That night Ninny Nanny and Gran have potato soup by a warm fire made of wood Ninny Nanny brought in. Later in the night, the leprechaun returns after they have gone to sleep to retrieve his gold from under the last plant.

I love that Ninny Nanny and Gran along with the leprechaun both end up with treasure. This is such a fun book to read. The brown and white pictures are filled with humor and whimsy.

What did we do?
We upcycled the wipes container and made it a treasure chest. Inside the treasure chest was pinto beans and shamrocks. JDaniel had to dig for the shamrocks using a little rake. After a few minutes of raking, he decided to use measuring spoons instead.
Once he had found all of the shamrocks, he decided to just transfer the beans back and forth between the treasure check and the container I use to hold the pinto beans.
Wipe Container Becomes a Storage Container
When we finished playing with the beans and shamrocks, we put plastic bags into the wipe container. We put the container in my car so, we will have plastic bags and a hand to store treasures ( acorns and small rocks we find during outings, dirty clothes, and more.
Shamrock Cookies
JDaniel loves to eat cookies and make them. We made shamrock cookies to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and to share with friends.
What did you do this week?
Last year I reviewed Leprechauns Never Lie and shared a shamrock hunting activity on The Book Chook.

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Comments

  4. I wish we got those containers in the UK they would be so useful but we get 1 in our maternity packs from the hospital and then it’s just plastic bag packs. I love the Shamrock Cookies we’re going to bake some this afternoon

  5. I love the hunt for the shamrocks. What a fun idea! Cerys, I can’t imagine not having those wipes containers. I reuse them for all sorts of things. My boys love filling them with toys!!!

  8. That sounds like a fun book! I love the treasure hunt idea. When we did library story hour yesterday there were little pots of gold hidden all through the library and the boys each got to find one and bring it home 🙂

  10. That’s one of the few things I miss about that age. The wipes containers being available for crafts…..

  12. I love these ideas! The cookies – may have to do them this weekend! And the wipes container, I reuse ours, too, but the bag idea is great (which is the end of the craft aspect, but still …).

  16. Oops, it wouldn’t take my photo and I clicked on the next image to see if it was frozen now I have a blogger icon. Oh well…
    Thanks for the fun linky. As always, I love your ideas!

  19. You are so creative!
    Are you a school teacher? or do you homeschool?

    Ok don’t worry. I went and read your about me again and I was not surprised that you taught.

    You are a jewel!

  24. I love this book… well, the sound of it… as we have not read it… the tie ins you do are always so fun and creative 🙂
    thanks so much

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