15 Free St Patrick's Day Activities

In this blog post today I’m sharing 15 free St Patrick’s Day activities. St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with fun, engaging, and FREE activities for your students?

Whether you’re looking for hands-on crafts, literacy and math printables, sensory play ideas, or interactive games, I’ve got you covered! These 15 free St. Patrick’s Day activities are perfect for special education classrooms, early learners, and anyone looking to add a little festive fun to their lessons. Best of all? They’re completely free to download and use! 🎉

Get ready to bring a little Irish magic into your classroom.. Scroll through this blog post and grab all of these free resources to make your St Patrick’s Day planning easy. 🍀✨

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1. Leprechaun Verb Adapted Book

This free adapted book is a perfect addition to your St. Patrick’s Day activities for special education students! Designed to build verb recognition and symbol skills, this hands-on resource helps students match words to pictures and construct meaningful sentences

Here’s the link to download your free leprechaun verb adapted book.

2. How to Catch a Leprechaun Book Companion

Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, this companion includes symbol matching activities to boost attention and comprehension, as well as visual comprehension worksheets for students who benefit from non-writing-based activities. It’s a hands-on way to reinforce key concepts while keeping learning fun and accessible for all learners. Click to download this free book companion.

3. Pot of Gold Paper Plate Craft

Looking for a fun and engaging craft to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with your students? Check out this Pot of Gold Craft! This activity involves creating a pot of gold using a paper plate, black paint, gold card, and a glittery shamrock, making it perfect for enhancing fine motor skills and adding a festive touch to your classroom. This blog post provides step-by-step instructions and a list of materials needed, ensuring a smooth crafting experience.

4. St Patrick’s Day Art Therapy Session

This blog post shares more into our St Patrick’s Day art therapy session. Explore a creative and sensory-rich St. Patrick’s Day Art Therapy Session designed to engage students through themed activities. This session features various stations, including food based art, sensory exploration, creative expression and fine motor skills.

5. Shamrock Wand

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a delightful Shamrock Wand craft! This engaging activity guides you through creating festive wands using simple materials like wooden dowels, paint, and shamrock shapes. It’s a perfect way to spark creativity and add a touch of magic to your celebrations.

Find all the information in this blog post.

6. Shamrock Sun Catcher Craft

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a delightful DIY Suncatcher Paper Shamrock Craft! This engaging activity involves creating vibrant shamrock sun catchers using green and white tissue paper, wax paper, glue, and a shamrock template. You can find all of the instructions for this shamrock sun catcher craft in this blog post.

7. St Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a free printable scavenger hunt that leads participants through common locations like the sink, sneakers, and bookshelves. Each clue is a riddle guiding players to the next spot, making it suitable for both homes and classrooms. The activity encourages teamwork and problem-solving, and includes printable certificates to reward participants upon completion. It’s an engaging way to add fun and excitement to your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

Download the scavenger hunt and get all of the details in this blog post.

8. St Patrick’s Day Sewing Cards

These printable cards feature festive designs such as a leprechaun hat, pot of gold, gold coin, and clover. By threading yarn or ribbon through pre-punched holes, children can practice hand-eye coordination and develop dexterity in a fun, hands-on way.

Get the instructions and free printables in this blog post.

9. St Patrick’s Day Riddle

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an engaging Escape Room activity designed for kindergarten and first-grade students. This resource from Sea of Knowledge features secret code worksheets where children solve riddles to uncover answers, promoting critical thinking and problem-solving skills in a festive context.

Find out more and download this riddle for free over in this blog post.

10. Sensory Alphabet Search

You know how much I love a good sensory activity and this one is perfect to add to your St Patrick’s Day centers!

11. Build a Leprechaun Craft

I love activities like this build a leprechaun craft because it gives my students a chance to work on a variety of skills. From following the directions to cutting and piecing it altogether.. This leprechaun craft is one of our go-to St Patrick’s Day activities.

12. Walking Rainbow Experiment

We love finding different science activities to do and this walking rainbow experiment is perfect to add to your St Patrick’s Day plans! Students can watch the changes over time.. plus it’s super affordable to put together.

13. Leprechaun Handprint Craft

We love making handprint crafts so this leprechaun handprint craft is perfect as part of your March activities. There’s something sentimental and personal about a handprint craft. We love to do at least one a month and put them together into a book at the end of the school year to send home to families.

14. Leprechaun Paper Plate Craft

We love using paper plates in our art activities. I usually put these on a list that parents/families can access to purchase for us too. They’re great for so many things in our classroom and super affordable. We used them to make a leprechaun face out of this time – and check out how great they look!

15. Pot of Gold Counting Worksheet

This pot of gold counting worksheet is another great freebie to add to your list! Students can use play dough, pom-poms or even gold coins to count to the number on their card.

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