30+ St. Patrick’s Day Crafts and Activities for Kids

March is the perfect time to celebrate spring, sunshine, and St. Patrick’s day! If you are a preschool, kindergarten, or primary school teacher, I know you are looking for some easy St. Patrick’s Day Crafts and Activities for Kids. Look no further! Also check out ”30+ Easy Spring art and craft ideas for cute spring FREEBIES.

We have compiled a list of many craft activities for St. Patrick’s Day that kids will love. The best part of these craft activities is they are low prep and super easy to execute! these 30+ St. Patrick’s Day Crafts and Activities for Kids are just what you were looking for…

Shamrock/ Clover Marbling Art

I love this Shamrock craft for so many reasons. You can encourage your students to be as creative as they want to be by using any colors they want! It is also just enough fun to keep kids on the edge of their seats waiting for their turn.  

St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Feed Me Review Game

Searching for fun St. Patrick’s Day activities for preschool and kindergarten? This St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Feed Me Review Game is a great St. Patrick’s Day learning activity that reinforces letter identification and number counting.

St. Patrick’s Color Mixing Foil painting

Yet another perfect and easy St. Patrick’s day craft for pre-k, this foil process art painted clover is great for children in pre-k or kindergarten because it helps with fine motor skills and limits the mess made when painting. 

Another great thing about foil painting is that there is limited teacher prep here, which we all know saves teachers time! The dream!

Fingerprint Shamrock art for St. Patrick’s Day

This easy St. Patrick’s day Shamrock activity will melt parents when they get it because it uses their tiny fingers are paintbrushes.

Shamrock Process Art using tin Foil 

Our toddlers love making prints on tin foil and imprinting them on shamrock. These shamrocks which are painted by students are very unique and perfect for St. Patrick’s day.

Fill your pot of gold and find the hidden letters

I love this St. Patrick’s day activity because it reinforces letter recognition, and can be used for numbers in preschool, sight words in kindergarten and first grade.

Handprint Shamrock Wreath 

Use this shamrock handprint and fingerprint wreath art idea to make shamrock handprint keepsake art crafts with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and school-aged kids for Saint Patrick’s Day.

You’re my lucky charm mesh paint activity

This St. Patrick’s Day craft can be used in multiple ways, whether you get a picture of your student to tape in the middle or draw a picture to accompany a St. Patrick’s story.

St. Patrick’s Day Golden Sight Words

Reading and writing sight words is an important part of early literacy education. Preschoolers will need to know how to read, write, and spell sight words fluently in order to progress in writing and reading throughout their elementary school years.

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These literacy center activities promote sight word recognition and spelling for young learners. 

Handprint Rainbow St. Patrick’s Day Craft

You are the pot of gold at the end of my RAINBOW craft . This Handprint Rainbow / pot of gold / St. Patrick’s Day is a super adorable yet simple DIY kid craft.

St. Patrick’s day fun water play

This would be a great activity for homeschooling, but if you are teaching in a building, don’t fret! We can make it work there too! 

Pot of gold Name craft for St. Patrick’s Day

This St. Patrick’s day name craft for students does take a bit more prep time for teachers, but it is a great bell work activity that students can do independently, as well as practicing fine motor skills. 

Printable of pot of gold and a rainbow 

This activity can also be used to help students correctly sort letters in their names and identify letters.

St. Patrick’s Day Count & Trace Task Cards

This St. Patrick’s day resource provides teachers and students with 20 task cards for tracing, 20 task cards for counting, and 21 ten-frame counting task cards.

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This resource is the perfect add-on to your math centers, small group learning, or morning work tubs. 

You are the pot of gold at the end of my rainbow craft 

This St. Patrick’s Day craft is adorable, but it can also be personalized, easy to clean, and can be hung in a home or classroom on display!

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St. Patrick’s Day ideas come in different varying levels of ease, and this is one easy craft idea that teachers and students will all love. 

Popsicle Sticks Handprint Leprechaun Name Puzzle

Use this popsicle leprechaun handprint craft to practice names with your students. This Leprechaun handprint crafts with toddlers for Saint Patrick’s Day makes a great gift idea for friends and family on St. Patrick’s Day!

Rainbow Shamrock Mesh Art

This St. Patrick’s day craft is similar to the mesh art that students will have completed before. Instead of creating a mesh outline in this activity, this easy game is perfect for creating a clover or shamrock that will be memorable. 

Magic Name Shamrocks

A magical activity for a magical season, this kindergarten St. Patrick’s Day activity is a great way to keep students gasping and engaged!

Shamrock in a bag

This St. Patrick’s Day activity is worth trying for the lack of mess alone. I can imagine it being a huge hit in preschool or Kindergarten, where the students love to paint, but the teacher loves not to ruin the carpet!

St. Patrick’s Day name hats/ crowns, rainbow, leprechaun, shamrock

This is a super cute and easy-to-prep March printable activity. Multiple options exist a St. Patrick’s day Rainbow, Leprechaun, and Shamrock Hat. They come in colored and ink saver versions for kids to color, cut and paste.

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Grab this FREE SHAMROCK template.

Most of them are super easy crafts and have low prep for teachers! So even if you aren’t Irish, this shamrock-centered holiday is the perfect time to start a discussion about what makes us feel lucky!

St. Patrick’s Day Gross Motor Game

Make St. Patrick’s Day even more fun with this super amazing gross motor Free Printable game. It is so easy to use! Just print, laminate, roll the dice and go! Land on 10x Jumps? Start jumping!

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