St. Patrick’s Day is always such a fun day in the classroom! Leprechauns….rainbows….Shamrock shakes…I love celebrating the day with my kids. And I’m excited to share tons of St. Patrick’s Day ideas with you!
Reading Comprehension With An Old Lady Swallowed A Clover
The writing activity for this story is probably one of my favorite St. Patrick’s Day lessons. The kids write about why they are lucky. These can be sweet but also very touching. I’ll never forget the year a kid wrote they were lucky to have a bed to sleep in. These fun lessons often lead to powerful moments.
Reading Comprehension With How To Catch A Leprechaun
We also do a fun STEM challenge with this story: coin stacking! How tall can you stack the coins before they fall?
St. Patrick’s Day Activities: Math
Each month, we do a measurement lesson to work on estimation, counting, and measuring. And we get to see how much we grow each year! For March, we measure how many shamrocks tall we are! And we have started a new idea with this activity! We also add sticky notes and chart paper, and encourage the school staff to stop by and measure themselves and add their measurement to the chart! The kids love seeing how tall the adults are!
St. Patrick’s Day Ideas: Leprechaun Visit
We do have a visit from a sneaky leprechaun. He always seems to show up while the kids are gone to specials and makes a mess in our room. He even uses our bathroom and leaves us a green toilet! True story.
One year, I had a kindergartener who was nearly as tall as me (PEOPLE, FOR REAL, HE WAS THE TALLEST KINDERGARTNER EVER!). When we returned from specials, the class frantically followed the little green footprints around, trying to find the leprechaun. This poor child stood in the middle of the room, trembled, and cried. He was traumatized by the leprechaun getting him. Poor thing couldn’t even enjoy the fun. Here’s my soapbox for the day: When you let 5-year-olds watch scary movies, you scar them, ruin fun holidays for them, and ruin their childhood. STOP IT! That is all.
St. Patrick’s Day Ideas: Kindergarten Art Projects
I love anything we can make with handprints, so this perfect 4-leaf clover activity is perfect for March or Spring. If you want to do this art project for St. Patrick’s Day, make a 3-leaf shamrock!
This four-leaf clover is excellent for March and spring! To make this a St. Patrick’s Day project, do a three-leaf shamrock!<
True story. Peppers make shamrocks! Who knew?! Just make sure to get the peppers with the three things on the bottom, not 4. PS The inside of the pepper with all those seeds grosses me out for some reason!
For this art project, we painted a newspaper green and then cut out a shamrock. We used a plastic Solo cup to make the circles. I printed the letters and had the kids cut them out and glue them on! Thanks Young School Art for the idea!
We love torn paper art projects, so we made a four-leaf clover!
Another favorite art project is using cookie cutters! This is such an easy art project. We just squirt paint on paper plates, and the kids dip the cookie cutters in paint and stamp it on their paper!
We also love directed drawings, so we draw a leprechaun!
And these shamrocks turned out so cute and hilarious.
St. Patrick’s Day Hat
Make this fun hat with your class! The template and directions are included in our St. Patrick’s Day Creation.
Lucky Charms Phonics Project
Each month, we do a phonics project to serve as an assessment of phonics skills, but really, it’s to make a super cute and fun monthly theme! These are differentiated so each student is assessed on skills that they can be successful with, so everyone gets to fill their bowl with lucky charms!
St. Patrick’s Day Ideas: Snacks
How about some St. Patrick’s Day ideas for snacks and treats? And yes, we have snacks! How about a Shamrock Shake? Our recipe for the shamrock shake is simply vanilla ice cream, milk, green food coloring, and mint Oreos!
And this super minty fun snack that THE MISTER makes for my class! Seriously, is he amazing or what?!?! We make a darn good team, and I couldn’t do what I do without him!!!
Ingredients: Chex cereal (5 cups per batch), Mint M&Ms, Andes Mints baking chips (1 bag per batch), pretzels, and powdered sugar (2 cups per batch).
- Pour cereal and pretzels into a large bowl.
- Melt the Andes chips.
- Pour melted chips over cereal and pretzels. MIX!
- Place half of the mixture into a gallon-size zip-lock bag. Add 1 cup powdered sugar.
- Shake the bag until everything is coated.
- Place on wax paper or a cookie sheet to cool. Repeat with the other half of the supplies.
- When cool, add in the mint M&Ms
- Place in a zip-log bag and add a label!
It’s very, very yummy and easy to make! And makes the kitchen smell minty!
St. Patrick’s Day Freebies
Thanks to Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, Whimsy Workshop, and KG Fonts for the clip art!
St. Patrick’s Day Ideas: Sensory Bins
Here are some St. Patrick’s Day ideas for sensory bins!
Lima beans colored with gold and green metallic watercolor paint!
Pasta dyed with food coloring. Felt shamrocks from Michaels!
Green Screen Idea
We love green screen pictures in our classroom and this might be one of my favorites that we do!
St. Patrick’s Day Ideas: Costumes
And of course, you have to dress the part for St. Patrick’s Day!
St. Patrick’s Day FREEBIES
St. Patrick’s Day Resources
