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Inside: Check out our fun list of classroom activities that you can do on St. Patrick’s Day for elementary students or your own kids!
St. Patrick’s Day is such a fun holiday in the classroom! After all, who doesn’t love wearing green? 😉
Your students are so lucky to have you as a teacher, especially in the month of March when the theme is St. Patrick’s Day, and everything lucky! You can incorporate lucky leprechaun-esque activities in each content area.
Here are a few classroom activities for St. Patrick’s Day for elementary students to fall in love with! From St. Patrick’s Day math activities to writing activities, there is something for every content area.
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Every teacher, classroom, and school will do holidays differently, AND THAT’S OK! Find the groove that works best for you. This post is full of lots of different ideas of content related St. Patrick’s Day classroom activities from math to writing to history that you can use to incorporate the holiday into your classroom.
If you are looking to throw a St. Patrick’s Day classroom party, check out our St. Patrick’s Day Party Pack full of cute decor and activities your students will love!
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As if we need an excuse to buy Lucky Charms! Enjoy the sweet cereal along with these St. Patrick’s Day math activities that include Lucky Charms fractions & Lucky Charms graphing.
Graphing marshmallows by color is a great way to get your children enjoying math while eating a tasty St. Patrick’s Day treat! The cereal marshmallow activities pack for upper elementary (3-5) also comes with other fun-filled math and language arts activities incorporating these lucky treats. Pre-K-K cereal marshmallow activities and 1st-2nd Grade cereal marshmallow activities are also available!
If picking out Lucky Charms marshmallows isn’t your thing, you can buy the marshmallows only to save yourself time and pick through cereal. Charm designs may vary with marshmallows only. Enjoy these fun activities at the end of the leprechaun’s rainbow.
Riding Rainbows Fraction Operations & Riding Rainbows Whole Numbers is the perfect math center game for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions & whole numbers!
Students will have a blast while practicing the four operations in these fraction math equations! Students will draw a fraction equation card, and if they answer the question correctly they will get to roll the die and move forward on the game board. They may land on an orange spot where they get to do something extra. If they are really lucky they will land on a blue cloud and get to ride a rainbow to a pot of gold to get ahead!
You can purchase these games separately or in a St. Patrick’s Day math center games bundle.
These St. Patrick’s Day-themed 0-20 numbers worksheets are perfect for students who are practicing their numbers, counting, and handwriting! The Write, Circle, Draw format is a lot of fun for kids. The students will trace and write each number, circle the St. Patrick’s Day picture that has the correct number, and add it to a St. Patrick’s Day picture with the correct number of items.
Check out our March Math Homeschool & March Math Sub Plans! The sub plans can be used for a sub or just to supplement march-themed activities in your classroom!
Each math lesson in these bundles includes a quick math review, fluency practice, math riddle activity, word problem activity, backwards story problem activity, and a math game.
You will have lots of engaging math activities for your classroom or homeschool during the month of March!
Emphasizing kindness and community is so important in the elementary classroom. One way to do this is by writing special notes to one another. With the Sneaky Leprechaun Writing activities, you’ll get step-by-step lessons to help your children find their own recipient of notes written by “a sneaky leprechaun”.
An introductory story, parent letter, student name cards, recording sheet (to keep track of who has whom), 10 pre-written prompts, 4 pre-written report to teachers prompts, differentiated writing pages, reveal cards, and thank you pages are all included! You can see exactly why this made it into our list of St. Patrick’s Day teaching ideas!
You can use these lessons all year long with the growing secret student activities writing bundle. Whether it’s back to school, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, or more, these activities are sure to build community and help your writers build their writing stamina!
Read-alouds are huge in elementary classrooms. Sharing inspirational books with your students, especially around special holidays, can inspire incredible student writing.
S is for Shamrock: an Ireland Alphabet gives an overview of Ireland with an A-Z tour of the country. This book is perfect to share even for more advanced readers. Share the Ireland Alphabet and then have your students write their own alphabet book based on their personal history or culture.
They could write a book about the country or state their family is from or a special hobby or interest. Using St. Patrick’s Day and Ireland as inspiration will help your students explore their own creative nonfiction writing.
If your students could use some extra letter practice, look no further! Your students will practice tracing and writing each letter. Then your students will show their phonemic awareness by circling the correct picture to match the letter sound. And lastly, they get to draw something that starts with each letter sound. The drawing part makes the worksheet engaging for kids and the St. Patrick’s Day theme makes the letter worksheets even more fun!
These are great for independent work, homework, centers, extra practice, and more!
These spelling activities have everything you need for St. Patrick’s Day spelling instruction! They are quick and engaging and already have the weekly spelling unit ready to go. All you have to do is print & teach!
You get spelling words for the week, including challenge words so that you can differentiate your instruction, printable activities for every day of the week, and answer Keys for quick grading.
Grab these St. Patrick’s Day Spelling Activities for lower elementary students or upper elementary students.
The St. Patrick’s Day Directed Drawing Packs for Upper Grades & Lower Grades are the perfect addition to your seasonal spread! Everything you need to get your students drawing and writing is included in the pack.
These drawing/writing projects are perfect for writing centers, morning work, and fast finishers.
These St. Patrick’s Day Directed Drawings include, six different themed directed drawing options with step-by-step drawing instructions so that your students will be able to complete each drawing on their own or in a whole class setting with little to no guidance from the teacher plus two different writing options for each object including a page with guided questions and a blank writing page for your students to create their own story
Differentiate with ease with these four March-themed reading passages. Each of the four topics includes three leveled passages that are relevant to the same answer sheet! Topics include spring cleaning, Pi Day, St Patrick’s Day, and Cesar Chavez Day.
March can be a busy month as you start the last term of the school year. Inevitably, you may have to miss a day or more for illness or training. Make sure to utilize March’s sub plans with ELA lessons and behavior and organizational sheets ready to go! The March fill-in-the-blanks (think Mad Libs) reinforce parts of speech and make for a product that will cause giggles galore.
Your kids will also enjoy the “How to Catch a Leprechaun” writing activity.
There are more than 60 pages of plans to help you in any absence, planned or unplanned. Plans are differentiated for Kindergarten, 1st-2nd grades, and 3rd-5th grades.
Even if you don’t need a guest teacher for the whole month, these lesson plans contain activities related to St. Patrick’s Day that are simple to use and ready to go. Save some time on lessons while you’re in the classroom so you can focus on the fun stuff, and building relationships with your students! They will love these St. Patrick’s Day teaching ideas.
Are you a homeschooler? Check out these March homeschool lessons with the same topics!
Need more St. Patrick’s Day teaching ideas? Give your students a chance to explore the country of Ireland, where St. Patrick made his home for most of his life.
National Geographic Kids, Britannica Kids, and the Smithsonian Institution are online sources for your students to explore and learn more about Ireland.
If you are looking for print resources, try Histropedia: The Story of Ireland from Then Until Now or The History of Ireland. Both books use pictures and words appropriate for ages 8-12 and are fantastic companions to explore both historic and current (the early 2000s) Ireland.
Everyone needs to hear that they are loved and appreciated every now and then. You never know when someone needs a little pick-me-up and sometimes a simple note does just the trick! Let the people you love know how much you appreciate them this St. Patrick’s Day.
During the month of March, celebrate the holiday with these St. Patrick’s Day for elementary students teaching ideas kids will love. Try out some ready-made resources, fun-to-read books, and other activities in March! Be sure to check out all of the St. Patrick’s Day teaching resources on TPT or in the Wife Teacher Mommy Shop mentioned in this post.
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107 Responses
Love having st Patrick’s ideas!
This will be so fun for the kids!
Thanks, DeAnna! Enjoy! 🙂
I love the rhyming pages, a great way to play with the sounds! Thank you, I can’t wait to try your ideas!
Thank you, Eileen! 🙂
Love this
I cannot wait to access this!!
Thanks, Whitney!
I haven’t thought about doing any activities for this holiday. Now I will have to. Thanks for the ideas.
No problem, Crystal! Thanks for reading!
These are great and easy to use! I get overwhelmed looking at ideas for the holidays but these make it easier on me! Thanks for sharing!
You’re welcome! So glad it will help you!
These are great ideas. Easy to differentiate and super engaging!
Glad you like the ideas! 🙂 Thank you!
Awesome ideas! I can’t wait to try them out in March!
Thanks so much, Whitney! 🙂
These are all great ideas!!
Thank you, Toccara!
The lucky charms fraction page is wonderful! My third graders are learning about fractions right now, so this would be a perfect way for them to practice what they have learned!
Glad you like it, Lychelle! Thank you!
The marshmallow fractions look like so much fun!!!!
Thanks, Abby! The kids do love them 🙂
1. I’m oddly obsessed with MadLibs!
2. Why am I the last to know that you can buy JUST the marshmallows from Lucky Charms cereal??!!
Wow – thanks for the awesome ideas! 🙂
I love Mad libs too! And it’s such a game changer, right? Thanks for reading, Tara!
Thank you for sharing! I’m saving all sorts of your ideas for my first March with my littles! They’ll love it 🙂
So glad they will love them, Hannah! Thank you! 🙂
I just love anything and everything green, so St. Patrick’s Day is an awesome day in my book. Thanks for the fun activities!!!
You’re welcome, Laura! 🙂
Great ideas!
Glad you liked them, LaTasha! Thank you!
These are so perfect for my students.
Thank you, Kacey!
Hopefully I get a chance to use this soon if not I am planning to add it to my resources
I hope so, Ciana! Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
I love having ideas to use for every holiday and the students always enjoy these things.
Glad your students enjoy them, Nicole! 🙂
Love all the ready made materials!
Thanks, Sarah! 🙂
Such a cute idea! I love all of your stuff!
Thank you so much, Bethany!
These are amazing! I love your ideas!
Thank you, Lissie!
These are amazing! I love your ideas and how engaging these are for students!
Thank you so much!
Can’t wait to try these with my kinders.
Can’t wait to use these ideas this year!
Thanks, Jessica! 🙂
Such inspiration, thank you !
Glad you like the ideas! 🙂
Love these simple ways to make learning fun! I try to do something for every holiday, but was coming up short on things for St. Patrick’s Day. This is perfect!
Glad you like the ideas! Thanks for reading 🙂
You really have some great ideas! Can’t wait to try some out in a few weeks!
Thank you, Tamera! 🙂
I love holiday inspired lessons because it gives students more motivation to learn and have fun especially towards the end of the year.
Thank you, Tarshica! I hope your kids love them!
So many great ideas! Thank you:)
Thank you, Julie!
Oh this will be so fun!
This will be so fun!
Love the “How to Catch a Leprechaun” writing activity!!
Thanks, Brittany!
Thank you for giving so many great ideas of what myself and my students can do in the classroom next month! I can’t wait!!
Thank you, Krista!
Great fun ideas!
Thank you, Karen!
Love all these ideas!
So glad you like them, Karen!
Love these ideas! The fraction activity is my favorite, the kiddos will love eating their marshmallows when done.
Hi Nicolle! So glad you love the fraction activity. Thank you! 🙂
Love the greater than, less than activity with the marshmellows!
Thank you, Kelsey!
These activities look like so much fun and also very educational. Especially the History of Ireland stories!
I hope your kids love them!
Thank you for sharing!
You’re welcome, Pam!
The cereal fractions and comparing numbers will be great for my kids!
Thanks, Jaena!
I love that you found a way to let the kids have fun, but they still are learning something. These are a must for March!
Thank you! I love using the holidays in the classroom!
Thank you for taking the time to make and share everything with us busy teachers!
Thanks, Leslie!
These ideas sound so awesome, I’m gonna use them in the future!
Thank you, Raven!
Love great Ideas for Holiday lessons and activities!!
Thanks so much, Keilyn!
Love!
Thanks, Steph! 🙂
Love the Mad Libs! So much fun!
Thank you, Kristina! 🙂
Looks like fun and easy to prep!
Thanks so much, Tracy!
so cute! The kitds are going to love it!
Thank you!
Love the idea af looking at Irish history and expanding that to the Art of Ireland.
Thanks so much, Kris!
Sometimes the simplest holiday activities are the most fun and engaging! Thanks for sharing!
No problem! Thanks for reading!
Such fun ideas for a fun holiday!
Thank you, Nicole! 🙂
Thanks for the great ideas! I know I will be using some them this year in my classroom.
Thanks, Sandra!
These are great ideas! We talk a lot about comparing numbers in 1st grade so my students will love the math activity. I’m always trying to find creative ideas that go along with the holidays. Thank you!
Thank you so much, Rebecca!
I love monthly themed activities. St. Patrick’s Day is so fun!
My kids did the adding with the lucky charms but halfway through it, they decided eating them would be more fun!
I can’t wait to use these ideas next school year!
These are great ideas! Thanks for sharing!