St. Patrick's Day Preschool Activities

St. Patrick's Day Preschool Activities

St. Patrick's Day is a fun holiday to celebrate with preschoolers. Shamrocks, rainbows, leprechauns, a pot of gold, and all the green you can imagine. 

This festive theme is a great opportunity to explore rainbows, colors, counting, problem solving, and creative play through hands-on activities. Below we are sharing some of our favorite St. Patrick's Day preschool activities to help make planning easy and fun.

Free St. Patrick's Day Lesson Planning Ideas

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St. Patrick's Day Printable Preschool Activities 

Pot of Gold Matching

This Pot of Gold Matching activity is a fun way to practice number recognition and counting skills.

To extend this activity, hide the number cards inside a sensory bin filled with gold coins, green pom-poms, or shredded paper grass and invite children to search for the numbers before matching them.
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Number I Spy

Celebrate the number 17 with an I Spy activity! Use this opportunity to work on counting to 17 with your preschoolers. Add yellow pom-poms as the counters!
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​Leprechaun Dress-Up

Children can play a Leprechaun Dress Up  game independently or with a friend!  Practice taking turns while working together to get the Leprechaun dressed. 
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Upper and Lowercase Letter Mat 

Practice letter recognition and matching lowercase to uppercase letters with this Shamrock and Gold Letter Matching game. 
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Shamrock Pattern Memory

Playing memory is an excellent way for preschoolers to develop many different skills including recalling information, spatial recognition, and turn taking. 
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Make Your Own Rainbow Writing Tray

Create your own Rainbow Writing Tray using this set of free Printables! Children can practice tracing letters, numbers, and shapes with their fingers while exploring colorful textures. This activity strengthens fine motor skills and early writing development.
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St. Patrick's Day Counting Cards

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Practice counting with Free St. Patrick's Day Counting Cards these cards pair perfectly with shamrock counters or gold-coins. 
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Preschool STEM Activities Using Rainbow Colored Cups

Stack, sort, and build using rainbow-colored cups! Preschoolers can explore concepts like building towers, balancing structures, sorting by color, and counting. These simple STEM challenges help develop early engineering, math skills, and problem-solving abilities.
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More Hands-On St. Patrick's Day Activities for Preschoolers

Leprechaun Trap

Can you think of anything more fun than building a leprechaun trap?

Invite preschoolers to design and build their own traps using blocks, cardboard boxes, craft sticks, and recycled materials. This activity encourages engineering, creativity, and problem solving.
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Golden Slime

Create a shimmering and gold slime for your preschoolers to play with on St.Patrick's Day. Our Honey Slime recipe is easy to make and the end-result is even better!
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Leprechaun Craft

Create your own leprechaun with popsicle sticks, it's an easy to assemble craft that your preschoolers will enjoy creating! Make your own with this simple Popsicle Stick Leprechaun tutorial.
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Marble Painting Shamrocks  

Create beautiful shamrock art using a fun marble painting technique. Children roll paint-covered marbles across paper to create colorful shamrock designs. This open-ended art activity encourages creative expression, sensory exploration, and fine motor development.
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Make Your Own Rainbow Dance Ribbons

Add some movement to your St. Patrick's Day celebration by making rainbow dance ribbons! Attach colorful streamers to craft sticks and invite children to dance and move like rainbows in the wind. This activity encourages gross motor development, creativity, and imaginative play.
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Walking Rainbow Science Experiment

Create a magical walking rainbow using cups, water, food coloring, and paper towels. As the colors travel and mix, children can observe how the rainbow forms. This simple experiment introduces early science concepts such as color mixing, absorption, and observation.
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St. Patrick's Day Small World Play 

Create a festive small world play scene using shamrocks, rainbows, gold coins, and leprechaun figures. Small world play encourages imaginative storytelling, social interaction, and creative play.
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Build Coin Towers Tutorial  

Challenge preschoolers to stack and build towers using gold coins or counters. How tall can they make their tower before it falls? This activity helps children explore balance, engineering concepts, and fine motor control.
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