What can I do for Saint Patrick's day school activies in Primary?

Question

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Our primary teachers, 1-2, used to come in early , or do the day before, and use sponges or something and green paint to make it look like leprechauns had been there !! The kids squealed with delight when they entered the room and it appeared leprechauns had walked all over their desks and ? green lep. footprints !

Answer 2

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

~ Coloring Pages

Happy Saint Patricks Rainbow
http://www.janbrett.com/saint_patricks_coloring_rainbow.htm

A Leprechaun takes a Hedgie Ride
http://www.janbrett.com/leprechaun_takes_a_hedgie_ride.htm

Saint Patrick's Day
http://www.janbrett.com/saint_patricks_coloring.htm

~ Placemats

Happy Saint Patrick's Day Coloring Placemat
http://www.janbrett.com/place_mats/happy_st_patricks_coloring_place_mat.htm

~ Saint Patrick's Day Bookmarks

Jan Brett Bookmarks
http://www.janbrett.com/bookmarks/bookmarks.htm

~ Saint Partick's Day Email Postcards

http://www.janbrett.com/vcards/gbrowse.php?cat_id=9


St. Patrick's Day Lessons and Teacher Resources:

This Art idea uses Karo Syrup for Painting with (can paint Shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day)

This lesson teaches the History of St. Patrick's Day

This is a lesson idea for St. Patrick's Day called Painting Without Paint (Shamrocks)

Here's another St. Patrick's Day idea for making a Shamrock Fan

A Creative Writing idea for St. Patrick's Day - If I Had a Pot Of Gold...

Here's a St. Patrick's Day idea involving a "Green Survey" and graph

Here are a couple of ideas for Green Foods to use on St. Patrick's Day

Here's a Graphing idea for St. Patrick's Day using Lucky Charms Cereal

Here's an idea -- Have student's compare and contrast their St. Patrick's Day traditions

In this St. Patrick's Day Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey type game, students count and learn directional words while "Filling Our Pot of Gold"


Here's another magically delicious graphing activity with Lucky Charms

Here students write Irish blessings on green hearts that are combined to form shamrocks

Guess the Shamrock is a spelling game idea

Here is an idea for growing shamrocks

In this idea, notes are exchanged with mischievous night-visiting leprechauns

In this math idea, lucky students find four-leaf clovers amid the 3-leaf shamrocks

This St. Patrick's Day lesson is an amalgam of other lesson ideas found on this site


If you have any St. Patrick's Day lesson plans to share, please add them to our site! You can find more St. Patrick's Day Worksheets at EdHelper.com

Answer 3

Have them watch Riverdance and get into groups to form their own Irish dance. Let them use props found in the classroom and dress up as they see fit for a "jig". Winning team gets to perform their dance at the next school concert !

Answer 4

You're serious? We haven't been allowed to do holiday crafts with our kids for a couple of years now. Can't "waste" that much time off-task. Lucky you.

Answer 5

Have the kids decorate cookies with green icing and have green juice (Kool -aid). Color Pictures.

Answer 6

- Have kids cut out/decorate 4 leaf clovers
- Buy those cheap hats that are supposed be leprechaun hats and have the kids decorate those.