It's Playtime with Shamrocks and Rainbows

March is a busy month for kid bloggers: Dr. Seuss's birthday, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, and this year, Easter.  It's an exciting month filled with Cat's hats, rainbows, flowers, shamrocks, and Leprechauns.  Check out these It's Playtime features for a colorful playtime with your kids.

Inspiration Laboratories shows us that it's easy to make a rainbow from items you have laying around the house....literally.  This activity is sure to keep your toddler/early preschooler busy and teaches color word recognition.

Combine art and science with these Magic Fizzing Shamrocks from Gift of Curiosity   Kids will love the messy fun and fizzy reaction they get from exploring this project.

If you were featured this week, don't forget to grab your special "featured button."

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These activities plus more can be found over on the It's Playtime Pinterest Board.  Happy Pinning! 

Now, on to this weeks play date! 

It's Playtime is a community and Thursday link-up hosted by:

* Rachele : Messy Kids (That's me!)
* Rachel & Holly : Quirky Momma
* Jillian: A Mom With a Lesson Plan
* Jenny : Let the Children Play

How to Play :

* Link up a post about a playful learning experience enjoyed by kids.

* Give us love and pop a button into your post/blog. Invite your readers to the weekly play date!

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* Stop by one of our blogs every Thursday and add your link about play. Your link will show up on each of the blogs in the It's Playtime community.

* Each week the playtime hosts will choose favorite posts to feature. (By linking you are giving us permission to use an image and link to you, if featured.)

* Be sure to visit some of the links that catch your eye. Commenting on posts that you find interesting or inspiring is a wonderful way to develop your own playful community.

By linking up you give us permission to grab a picture and feature you here, on a site we write for, on FB or Pinterest.   If we share your link, we will always credit you, send people to your original post and use only ONE photo.