Everybody is Irish on March 17, right? I don't put up St. Patrick's Day decorations, but I do like celebrating the holiday all month long through a variety of fun St. Patrick's Day activities for children. Just like last year, I'll be doing a St. Patrick's Day "kid school" theme.
If you're looking for St. Patrick's Day party ideas for a classroom or large group setting or St. Patrick's Day celebration ideas to do at home with your kiddos, then you'll love this round-up of St. Patrick's Day activities.
Froot Loops Cereal Rainbow
Enjoy a snack and a craft when you glue down this colorful cereal in the shape of a rainbow! This is a great idea with some St. Patrick's Day book suggestions from Simple Living Mama.
Lucky Charms Marshmallow Bars
Speaking of snacks, kids will love helping you turn Lucky Charms cereal into Rice Krispies treats. This is one of my favorite St. Patrick's Day food ideas. If you need to make dietary substitutions, it's easy to do. Lucky Charms are already gluten-free, and I used a dairy-free butter. The original recipe is from Greens & Chocolate.
Pot of Gold Counting
If you need St. Patrick's Day math activities, then you'll love this Pot of Gold Counting activity from Eat Sleep and Play. Place cupcake liners into a cupcake baking tray and write numbers on the inside of the liners. Then have kids count toy gold coins or chocolate coins to match the number inside each cupcake liner.
Magic Fizzing Shamrocks
We've done a number of these science experiment activities for just about every holiday. There's nothing more magical and exciting than watching the chemical reaction between baking soda and vinegar. This activity from Gift of Curiosity adds green paint for a more colorful fizz.
Marshmallow Shamrock Stamping
Marshmallows are fun to eat - and some will be consumed during the making of this craft - but they also make great stampers! The Pinterested Parent suggests dipping a large marshmallow into green paint and stamping it onto a piece of paper to create a shamrock design. Kids will like the fun of using something other than a paintbrush to make St. Patrick's Day art.
Paper Plate Rainbows
I love a good paper plate craft, and this St. Patrick's Day craft is so easy. Just cut out the center of the paper plate so that all you're left with is an arch. Kids can color in the arch with rainbow colors or however they'd like, and then add construction paper clouds, cotton ball clouds, and/or a construction paper pot of gold at the ends.
Irish Spring Surprise
Creating Readers and Writers walks you through the steps to do this science experiment that involves placing a bar of Irish Spring soap (which my husband uses, so no extra cost for this) in the microwave. Ask kids to make a hypothesis about what might happen. And then explain the science behind it.
Leprechaun Lookers
Recycle those old toilet paper tubes into this cute craft from Love Your Littles. Kids get to glue or tape two toilet tubes together, kind of like binoculars, and then decorate them however they want. Attach ribbon so kids can wear them and search for leprechauns around the house.
St. Patrick's Day Name Craft
For just $7.50 at Teachers Pay Teachers you can print out this craft from Busy Hands and Minds. I think the bundle actually includes a lot of themed activities. Or you can do what I did last year: draw a pot of gold and cut it out of construction paper. Punch out circles from yellow construction paper. Those will be the coins. Write one letter of the child's name on each coin or have kids practice writing the letters. Then the kids organize the coins in the right order and glue them down on their pot.
Vegan Shamrock Shake
You need to have St. Patrick's Day party food, and the Shamrock Shake is a classic! While you might not need to have a dairy-free Shamrock Shake, you can still use this recipe from Veganosity and just use regular milk and ice cream. We made these, and they did not disappoint. I'll be making them every year! So much easier than trying to find a McDonald's that sells them.
St. Patrick's Day Clover Addition Math Mat
I love the fun way to help kids visualize addition and subtraction. Print it out from The Kindergarten Connection and either laminate the whole mat or just cover the bottom in packing tape, that way you can write down numbers with a Dry-Erase Marker and then erase them. Use green M&Ms as the markers or some other fun green candy or tiny toy.
I think these are pretty cool ideas for St. Patrick's Day. I hope these St. Patrick's Day kid crafts give you some ideas of things to do to celebrate the holiday with your kiddos. There are many more activities to keep kids busy this St. Patrick's Day and the whole month of March on my St. Patrick's Day Kid School Pinterest board.
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