Are you celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this week and looking for St. Patrick’s Day crafts or games? Here are our ideas for a playful celebration with your kids.
Go green for the day: dress in green clothes and see how many green toys you can find. How about a green lunch too? Guacamole dip with cucumber and celery, spinach and ricotta tortellini with pesto sauce, with green jelly and grapes for pudding.
Hold a treasure hunt: hide some golden coins (made from circles of card or chocolate coins if you want a treat) around the house or garden and see if your little leprechauns can find them all. You can have the children work in pairs to hide and find the coins too, and have the child who hide the coins give clues to help the other child find them – great fun and a good exercise in team work and following instructions.
Try some shamrock stamping: heart shaped cookie cutters make a great shamrock shape!
Mix in some maths: patterning and matching games are an enjoyable way to practice early maths skills, so why not give your maths games a shamrock theme? Make some shamrock cutouts – from any green card, paintings or scrap paper you have, or by using a selection of green paint sample cards from your local DIY store. Younger children might like to see if they can pair up all the matching shamrocks or create some repeating patters (which you could transform into bunting). Older children might like to play a memory game: place all the shamrocks face down on the floor. Take it in turns to turn over two shamrocks. If you find a matching pair you can keep them – if not, place them back, face down again. The person to find the most pairs is the winner – and everyone gets to exercise their brains as they try to remember the location of the different patterned shamrocks.
Make some rainbows: with this rainbow finger painting craft , this idea to put a rainbow in your tummy or this rainbow threading pattern
How are you celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with your children? Got a great St.Patrick’s Day craft idea to share with us?
happily shared with Tot Tuesday and Works for Me Wednesday and Kids Get Crafty and ABC and 123
We are going to paint a rainbow today!
I love rainbows any day of the year JDaniel’s Mom 🙂
We made rainbows yesterday by painting on sponges. Fun and colourful activity. You can check it out on my blog.
Today I laid out cds (non label side up)and had a table top of rainbows.
Plus we’re doing the carnation changing colours experiments.
We are all about rainbows this week for St.Patricks Day. Maybe we’ll find a pot of gold.
Fun ideas! I like your rainbow painting.
Aaaaah love the shamrock – so cute!! Perfect use of heart cutters!! And rainbow finger tips – fab idea! Love it!! 😉
Maggy
(and thank you for always coming to link up at Kids Get Crafty each week 🙂
I love the fruits rainbow, looks yummy! I love the shamrock stamping too! Thanks for the St. Patrick’s Day ideas!
We made Shamrock crafts, Rainbow Luminary. We are reading St. Patrick’s Day book!
These ideas are grat for celebrating all things Irish, however, what do have to teach our little ones about St Patrick?