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 craft ideas for kids. Look no further! 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?

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!

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.

Marbling Art is amazing because the setup creates a limited mess and maximum fun.

The supplies for this are simple! 

You need:

● A tray, maybe an aluminum pan or a cookie sheet

● A marble

● Paint (any color will work!)

● Paper in the shape of a shamrock, leprechaun, or pot of gold!

To make:

● Place your cut-out inside your aluminum tray or sheet.

● Place a few drops of whatever colored paint you want to use on top of the paper.

● Gently roll the pan back and forth and let the marble glide through the paint!

● Remove your cut-out, and set aside to dry.

And there you have it, an interactive painting activity that students will love.

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!

You need:

● Aluminum Foil

● Scissors

● Paint (any color will work!)

● Paper shaped like a shamrock, leprechaun, or pot of gold!

To make:

● Cut the aluminum foil using scissors into smaller, more manageable sizes for little hands. Each student will need one piece of foil for each color they want to use. 

● Place a few drops of whatever colored paint you want to use on ta paint pallet next to the shamrock or leprechaun or pot of gold you will be foil painting.

● Gently crumple the foil into a ball and dip it into the color you want to start painting with.

● The paint that was on the foil will be blotted onto the design. You can use different foil to layer as many colors onto your painting as you want. 

The supplies on this easy craft for kids can be used multiple times because they can use the foil over and over again!

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. Caregivers are getting a thoughtful gift that is also a snapshot in time of where their little preschool or Kindergarten student’s finger sizes! This Shamrock fingerprint art will be loved by everyone.

It is thoughtful, sentimental and simple to prep. All in all, this is a winning St. Patrick’s Day craft for kids.

 You need:

● Paper shaped like a shamrock or a clover

● Paint (any color you want)

To make:

● Place a piece of paper on the table and place your shamrock on top of the paper.  

● Place a few drops of whatever colored paint you want to use on ta paint pallet next to the shamrock or leprechaun or pot of gold you will be using.

● Dip the student’s fingers into paint and encourage them to heavily dot around the outline of the clover with their fingers to get a solid outline of what they are painting.

● Peel the top shamrock off of the paper, and set your paper aside to dry.

There you have it! An easy, adorable keepsake for St. Patrick’s Day! 

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! Your students are going to find it to be SO MUCH FUN!

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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.

Make this cute shamrock craft using just few supplies. It's easy to make and looks adorable! 

You need:

● Cardstock Paper

● Washable blue and yellow markers

● Tin foil sheet

● Wet paper towel

To make:

● Print Shamrock on a cardstock paper and cut

● Spread tin foil sheet and tape it from four sides

● Use blue and yellow washable marker to make strokes on the tin foil

● Using a wet tissue rub the cut out shamrock

● Now, press the wet side of shamrock on top of the foil

● Gently, press and then pull it up.

● A super cute green colored stroky Shamrock is ready.

This cute shamrock process art for St. Patrick's is one which kids would love for sure! 

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, and even simple addition and subtraction in other elementary grades!

You can make this activity the perfect St. Patrick’s Day activity with kids by using coins and a pot of gold.

You need:

● A piece of cardstock in a page protector

● Silver coins (either plastic coins or large quarters)

● Tape

● A small black pot (you can use a little Tupperwear container if you cannot find a pot for your gold)

● A Sharpie or permanent marker to write on your paper

To make:

● The teacher will choose what skill they want to reinforce and use the sharpie to write on the piece of cardstock. Either letters, sight words, or math problems! 

● Slide the cardstock into a page protector, and cover each letter or sight word with a coin.

● Use one single piece of tape to cover the coin on top of the letter or the sight word. The student will pull the coin off, so be sure not to use too much!

● Set your pot or Tupperware next to the page protector, and then have students pull one coin off at a time to reveal their practice letter!

● Students will reveal each letter or math problem one at a time and place their coin in the pot until it is filled with gold!

Teachers will love this activity because it can be used multiple times once it is prepped! And parents and caregivers will love this activity because it can be used at home and had almost no mess involved!

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. Shamrock handprint art makes a great gift idea for friends and family on St. Patrick’s Day!

This Shamrock handprint idea along with fingerprint wreath is super cute for St. Patrick’s Day. Have the kids put their handprints down on a canvas for a forever keepsake to remember their little hands. You can make this unique Shamrock/Clover handprint crafts along with fingerprint wreath for St. Patrick's Day at home or in the classroom. 

You need:

● Green Acrylic paint

● A Sharpie or permanent Marker

● Dry Erase markers

To make:

● Grab a cardstock paper 

● Using a round circular object make a circle 

● Dab green paint onto the hand on the student and print it in the middle of the circle.

● Take paint on fingers and start to put all over the circular boundary to make it look like wreath

Crafts that use handprints make great gifts for mom, dad, or grandparents. Make this St. Patrick's Day handprint and fingerprint craft to give to your parents or someone you care about.

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.

Shamrock art can be used multiple times and can be customized for each student… how lucky!

You need:

● A piece of cardstock or paper to paint on

● A cut out of a shamrock or clover

● Paint (any color!)

● Mesh (think of what a nag of oranges is made of, or the back part of a sponge)

To make:

● Lay the cut out of the shamrock onto your cardstock. (Some people find it helpful to put a small piece of tape on the back of the shamrock to secure it to the cardstock to keep it from slipping.)

● Squirt a small amount of paint onto a plate or a paint pallet next to your paper. 

● Take the mesh you have and cut it into smaller, more manageable pieces, then crumble it into small pieces.

● Have students dab the mesh into the paint, and encourage them to highlight the outlines of their shamrock, so it is obvious what is being outlined on the page. 

When you lift the shamrock from the middle of the page, your student should have a perfectly outlined image of a clover. This is an easy activity for students of all ages to do during St. Patrick’s Day.

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

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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. These paper cut handprints or you can also use an ink pad or paint, stamp handprints. This handprint arts and craft project is perfect to do at school, daycare or even home.

You need:

● Colorful Construction papers

● A Sharpie or permanent Marker

● Dry Erase markers

● Glue stick and Scissors

To make:

● Trace students hand on different colored construction papers and cut them 

● Using a black construction paper cut out a pot 

● Cut circles to look like coins using yellow construction paper

● Using a sharpie write " You are the pot of gold at the end of my rainbow"

 This rainbow handprint pot of gold craft project is perfect for St. Patrick's day to do at school, daycare or even home.

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! 

This water play activity will keep students engaged, entertained, and modified to make it more or less challenging!

You need:

● Pipe cleaners

● An aluminum tray or baking pan

● Water

● Other St. Patrick’s themed trinkets (gold coins, lucky charms, green glitter etc)

To make:

● Fill your aluminum tray or baking pan with about an inch of water. 

● Take pipe cleaners and create shamrocks out of them (as many as you want students to go fishing for!)

● Let them float in the water, and add your other trinkets to the water if you want.

● Have students make a fishing pole out of a pipe cleaner, or bring in a toy fishing pole if you have one.

● Students will take turns fishing shamrocks or gold out of the lucky pond and placing them to the side.

I love this classroom game because not only does it incorporate water play for sensory needs in preschoolers, but it can also be made into an activity that students do on their own, or it can be made into a competitive game, where the teacher goes for one color and students go for another. There are so many ways to incorporate this activity into your classroom St. Patrick activities.

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. 

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

You need:

● Printable of pot of gold and a rainbow 

● A gluestick

● Markers and crayons

● Small images of gold coins that have letters printed on them for student names (you can also print them plainly, and have students practice writing a letter on each coin)

To make:

● You can print a black line of a pot of gold with a student’s name printed on it and a rainbow coming off to the side. Students will color the pot and the rainbow.

● Then the students will cut their images of the gold and arrange the letters in order of their name. 

● They will glue down the coins above the pot of gold in name order.

● If you do not want students to color in the rainbow, you can cut out a pot of gold and pre-printed rainbow for students to paste. They will follow the same steps with the coins. 

While this activity definitely has to be planned ahead of time, the students will love having this personalized namesake for St. Patrick’s Day!

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. Check out these adorable Number, Counting, Ten Frame Task Cards today! Designed with preschool and kindergarten students in mind, our task cards promote number recognition, correct number formation, as well as fine motor skills. This resource is the perfect add-on to your math centers, small group learning, or morning work tubs. 

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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! Using cling wrap to paint is a fun way to paint in the classroom, and students will enjoy watching their paint form into a rainbow underneath their cling wrap. In preschool, students would need help with this portion, but in an older grade, like third, fourth, or fifth grade, the students could independently complete this St. Patrick’s Day craft.

You need:

● Rainbow colored paint

● A piece of cardstock

● Cling wrap

● Popsicle stick to spread the paint

● Cotton balls and gluestick

● Yellow and black paper for pot and coins

To make:

● Lay out a piece of white cardstock, and place a dot of paint vertically on the left side in the order of the rainbow,

● Lay a cling wrap over the top of your cardstock, and wipe the paint in a rainbow arch using a popsicle stick. This effect is best used if you complete it in one motion, so students will probably need to go slowly.

● Remove the cling wrap carefully, and use glue to add cotton balls to the rainbow's end.  

● Make a black pot of gold from the black paper and yellow coins from the yellow paper. The pot can go to the bottom of the rainbow, and coins can be placed inside the pot. 

● The student or the teacher can personalize these rainbows by adding student names to the pot or the phrase “You are the gold at the end of my rainbow”.

This bright and creative craft is a great St. Patrick’s Day gift for someone special.