St. Patrick’s Day Activities and Crafts
St. Patrick’s Day Activities and Crafts
For St. Patrick’s Day we don’t normally do a lot but we will do crafts or activities during the week that include the theme. Here are some things we’ve done over the years!
Rainbow Scavenger Hunt (Free Printable)
Pot of Gold Paper Plate Craft
This one is super simple. All you need is:
• A paper plate
• Markers (or paint, crayons, pencils, etc.)
• Tape or stapler
• Yellow tissue paper (optional) cut into squares
• Glue (if you’re using tissue paper)
To start, take a paper plate and cut it in half.
Take one of your halves and cut the edge off leaving an arch and a small semi circle.
You should have three pieces now.
Color/paint the full half plate black.
Color/paint small semi circle yellow.
If you want to use tissue paper, spread your glue on your yellow semi circle.
Take a square, wad it up and stick it on the glue. Do this until your semi circle is covered. (You can also use glitter here or gold paper cut into a coin shape!)
Color/paint the arch as a rainbow.
Using your stapler or tape, attach the yellow semi circle to the pot and the rainbow around the semi circle.
A pot of gold!
Rainbow Scavenger Hunt
Whether you’re looking for a simple but fun activity to do for St. Patrick’s Day, helping your kids learn their colors, teaching about Noah’s Ark and what the rainbow meant or you just have littles who love rainbows, this activity is the perfect activity for you! (Click here for the free printable!)
This scavenger hunt can be used in many different ways depending on what resources you have and what ages of kids you have or level of difficulty you need. You can use it indoors or outdoors! Here are a few ideas on how to use it:
• For younger kids, have them choose a matching marker and check off each color once they’ve found an object to match.
• Kids who can draw or write can draw or write down the object they found with a matching color marker.
• For older kids, you can create clues for them to find a specific object.
Handprint Shamrock
For this craft you will need:
• Green or white paper
• Green paint
• Gold or brown paint
• Glitter or glitter paint (optional)
• Scissors
You are going to make four handprints. Paint hand with green paint, repainting hand in between each handprint. Place the heel of the hand in the center of the paper and rotate handprint each time to form a clover. Sprinkle with glitter or when green paint dries, paint with glitter paint on top. Take gold/brown paint and make a stem. Once dry, cut out your shamrock and display!
Popsicle Stick Leprechaun Hat
Supplies needed:
• Popsicle sticks (We used 8 but you can use as many or little as you like.)
• Green marker or green paint
• Black paper, small piece
• Yellow/gold paper, small piece
• Glue
• Tape
First, color all but one of your popsicle sticks with markers or paint. Once dry, turn them upside down and glue them together in the shape of a hat. Glue your last popsicle stick diagonally on the back to secure the other popsicle sticks. I also put a piece of packing tape to secure the back. Cut a strip of black paper and a buckle from the yellow/gold paper. Glue to the front of hat.
Painting
One of the easiest crafts we do is to just paint! Sometimes I let my kids pick out the colors of paint or if we’re doing a certain theme I’ll pick out the paint for them. I let them use brushes or their fingers and hands and they love it! When my kids were younger I would put dots of paint all over their paper to smear around and they thought it was so fun! These are a couple of paintings my kids did for St. Patrick’s Day last year.
I hope this gives you a few ideas of some simple crafts and activities for St. Patrick’s Day!