St Patrick’s Day Activities for School
St Partick’s Day may be one of the more minor holidays on the calendar. However, if you are an elementary school teacher you are probably still looking for St. Patrick’s Day activities for school. St. Paddy’s day is still a great time to do themed activities with your students and below are some things that you can do to celebrate the holiday.
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St Patrick’s Day Activities for School #1 Shamrock Math
One of the great St. Patrick’s Day activities for school is shamrock math. Remember that shamrocks have three leaves they are not four-leaf clovers. Therefore, math wise working with shamrocks should involve working with threes. You can use shamrocks to show adding three. Maybe you have a number then you add a shamrock meaning that you add three.
They can also be great for skip counting by three. Students can put shamrocks together to skip count by three. Overall, threes in multiplication can be taught very well through shamrocks.
I would suggest getting some clip art shamrocks and printing them out then cutting them for each student or cutting them on your Cricut if you have one of those. That way students can have manipulatives that are shaped like shamrocks to do their math with. If this seems like too much work you can also find mini erasers that are shamrocks and students can use those as themed manipulatives for St. Paddy’s Day.
St Patrick’s Day Activities for School #2 St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
There are so many great St. Patrick’s day crafts out there which means they are perfect for St. Patrick’s Day activities for school. One of the crafts that I think is so much fun with elementary school students is to make a leprechaun trap. This goes hand and hand with the book How to Catch a Leprechaun. In that book, people have to make a leprechaun trap to try to get a leprechaun to get his gold. This is a really fun activity to have students make so they can flex their thinking muscles to see what they think would work to catch a clever leprechaun. Plus the book is a great read-aloud for the classroom.
Rainbows are also the bread and butter of crafts for St. Patrick’s Day. Making rainbows out of fruit loops is a great one. Students can count out the fruit loops as they glue them into a rainbow for this fun craft. You can also just have students paint rainbows and create fluffy clouds with cotton balls overall you cannot go wrong with rainbows for St. Patrick’s Day activities for school.
Lastly, a craft can also just be coloring pages. Coloring pages to display on the wall or just to use some time for mindfulness or as transition activity are great St. Patrick’s Day activities for school. You are also in luck because I have created a set of St. Patrick’s Day coloring pages for my subscribers. What’s even better is that they are free. To sign up for my email list and receive these coloring pages click the image below.
St Patrick’s Day Activities for School #3 St. Patrick’s Day Multiplication Drills
Another fun St. Patrick’s day activity for school that I do with my students yearly is my St. Patrick’s Day Multiplication Drills. St. Paddy’s Day is right around the corner and your students will be feeling lucky with these multiplication drills. Have your students practice their multiplication drills for 1-12. After, your students have practiced these decks they will know their multiplication drills from 1×1- 12×12. This is a comprehensive deck of multiplication drills that is perfect for St. Paddy’s Day. This will have 3rd and 4th graders engaged and jumping for joy. This bundle will allow you to have all your students practicing their multiplication at the same time even if they are on different levels. It will allow you to differentiate well in math centers and more.
Multiplication Drills are something that is important to practice year-round. If you use the same type of multiplication drills that can get tiresome for you and your students. It is nice to be able to have holiday multiplication drills and this one is a perfect St. Paddy’s Day multiplication drill. My students love to see the new drills through the year and see what clip art they are going to be working with. Ultimately they love the clip art and character and I have to admit I love it also. Who doesn’t love cute things?
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St Patrick’s Day Activities for School #4 St. Patrick’s Day Writing
The last St. Patrick’s Day activity for school that I have is St. Patrick’s Day writing. You can do this through normal just freewriting prompts at the beginning of the day, but you can also incorporate this writing into some of the activities from above. If you have students make the leprechaun trap you can have them write about why this trap would work. You may also teach your students to do how to writing about the leprechaun trap where they write how to make one.
For rainbow crafts, poetry and haikus surrounding rainbows can be a great writing activity. You can even have students write them on the same page. These would be great to display on the walls also as they are sure to be super cute.
Lastly, with the multiplication drills. I talked about the cute clip art characters and how they are absolutely my student’s favorites when doing any of my multiplication drills. I have them for every holiday. Anyways, have the students look at those clip art characters and write a story with those characters. They can choose one character that they really love or have all of the characters be part of the story. It allows you to make one product work across your curriculum and incorporate English into a math activity in a way. Overall, I have found that my students love to make stories with the characters even when they are doing math.
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