Preschool St. Patrick's Day Theme

Below you can find tons of fun and engaging Preschool St. Patrick's Day activities!
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Planning your St. Patrick's Day Theme 

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Download our Free St. Patrick's Day Preschool Sample Lesson Plan

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Be sure to add plenty of "Green" to your Art Space this week. Consider adding different shades of Green Crayons, Markers, Paper and Paint to your free art shelves.

*Leprechaun Craft Project

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with your preschooler with this fun leprechaun craft. This craft is easy to assemble and uses common craft materials found at your local craft store. 

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*Marble Painting Shamrocks

All you need for this great St. Patrick's Day activity is a box or container, a few marbles, some paint and a paper shamrock. If you place the paper shamrock in the box and add a few drops of paint in the corner of the container with the marbles. Have the student slowly move the box around to manipulate the marbles into painting their shamrock.

Shamrock Craft

Cut a paper tube in small circles, manipulate to form a heart shape. Paint and glue together to create a shamrock.

More Ideas:

​ Shamrock Print from Blessed Beyond a Doubt

​Leprechaun Mask by Crafty Mama in Me

​Toilet Paper Roll Leprechaun Crafts from the Resourceful Mama

​St. Patrick's Day Play Dough from Clare's Little Tots

​Make a Leprechaun Trap from Little Bins for Little Hands

​Marble Painted Shamrocks from Plain Vanilla Mom

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*Decorate the housekeeping space for St. Patrick's Day

Add a box of St. Patrick's Day Decorations and let the Children decorate their own space.

Our reader Laurie P. of Pitter Patter Dayhome added several St. Patrick's Day inspired
dress up items to her Dramatic Play Space. 

Leprechaun Dress Up

Add a variety of Leprechaun Dress-Up Items to your dramatic play space this week.
Add Cauldrons and pretend  "Gold" to your space for your Leprechauns to find.

*Green Dress-Up

Dress from head to toe in green! Set out a variety of green dress up items for your students to dress up in.

​More Ideas:

​St. Patrick's Day Role Playing fun from Inner Child Fun

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*Add St. Patrick's Day inspiration to your space

Let's turn the Construction area Green this week. Swap out your blocks for all green building options. You can add a variety of Gold, and Leprechauns to this space as well. 

*Build Coin Towers

Building  towers the St. Patrick's Day way by using gold coins or pennies. This exciting activity is also great for building small motor, engagement and persistence.

Build Shamrocks

Set out a variety of green blocks, and practice building shamrocks.

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*First Sounds Clip Cards

Practice phonics with this hands-on activity!
This activity is easy to set up: print the desired cards, cut, laminate (optional for durability), and place on a tray with some clothes pins. This activity is ​included in our St. Patrick's Day Activity Pack

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*Shamrock and Gold Upper/Lower case
Letter Matching

Match the St. Patrick's Day Uppercase letters to the lowercase letters, included in our St Patrick's Day Activity Pack

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*If I caught a Leprechaun...

For this writing activity have your students answer "What they would do if they caught a Leprechaun"
and scribe their story.

*What do you spy that's green?

Play I Spy with a St. Patrick's Day twist! Spot the items  around the room that are green!

Letter Treasures

Children can form the letter their name begins with using play dough, then fill the letters with "silver nuggets" (aluminum foil)

What Is St. Patrick's Day? by Elaine Landau
St. Patrick's Day by Dorothy Goeller
Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie dePaola
Happy St. Patrick's Day by Roger Priddy
Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase by James Dean
I Spy With My Little Eye St. Patrick's Day Edition by Passion Kids
The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day by Natasha Wing

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*St. Patrick's Day Patterning and Sorting​

Support math skills with this hands-on patterning activity. 
This activity is easy to set up! Simply print and set out for play or transform into a file folder activity. 
**Optional: Laminate the mat and pieces for durability and use over and over! You could also set this out as a cut and paste activity. 
This printable activity is ​included in the PKPF St. Patrick's Day Activity Pack

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*St. Patrick's Day Counting Cards Freebie

Pair these free number cards with your favorite St. Patrick's Day math counters to support your preschooler's math development. 
This freebie can be found on my blog post Free St. Patrick's Day Counting Cards

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*How Many Shamrocks can You fit in your hand?

Have students count how many shamrocks they can fit in their hand.
You can extend the learning by graphing your classes results.

*Pot of Gold Counting

Write Numbers on mini pots of gold. Add the correct amount of gold coins, or coin candy to each pot.

Counting Clover Leaves

Go outside to find a lucky clover. Count the leaves.

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Light Table Rainbow

Invitation to build rainbows on the light table from reader Laurie P. of Pitter Patter Dayhome

St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin Ideas

Add all kinds of fun textures and interesting St. Patrick's themed items to your sensory table this week.  Some ideas: Green Crinkle Paper Shreds, Gold Coins , Rainbow Jello, Dried Peas, Foam 4 leaf clovers, Rainbow/Green Died Rice, Green Milk Caps, Rainbow/Green Dyed noodles, or Green Pom-Poms
​Here are some inspirational photos from our community members

​St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin from  Community Member Melanie P.

St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin from Laurie P. of Pitter Patter Dayhome

*St. Patrick's Day Slime

Make your own St. Patrick's Day slime! 
You can create a green or gold slime, or clear with  gold and green chunky glitter for something special!

*Leprechaun Trap Building Challenge

This is always a fun project for St. Patrick's Day. Have student's individually or in groups create and decorate their Leprechaun Trap. While students are out of the room you can set off their traps and leave little gifts behind for a treat.
See our suggestions for this activity on my blog.

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Sensory Sort

This invitation is simple yet a powerful sensory experience that will keep preschoolers engaged. Cut up yellow and green sponges, add to a container of water. Children can sort the "shamrocks" and "gold" sponges into different containers.

Magnet Experiment

Provide horseshoe magnets along with large fender washers, coins, and a variety of other similar objects. Children can test and sort based on whether each object is magnetic.

More Ideas:

Magic Leprechaun Rocks by Gift of Curiosity
Gold Sparkle Slime by Little Bins for Little Hands
Grow 4-leaf clovers from Chica and Jo

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*Clover Shape Leaf Cards

Work on finger strength, dexterity, and hand-eye coordination while practicing shape recognition with these cute Clover Shape Leaf Cards included in our St. Patrick's Day Activity Pack

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*Outdoor Coin Hunt

Gather some gold coins, or use the printable ones in my St. Patrick's Day Activity Pack, to create a treasure hunt outside.  Be sure to hide the coins high and low to promote body movement. 

*Flip coins into a pot of gold

Using your thumbs or pointer fingers to flip coins into a pot of gold.
This is a challenging and very fun fine motor St. Patrick's Day activity.

*Gross Motor: Shamrock Sort

Hide shamrocks around the room for students to find. Once a student finds one, have them come back and meet as a large group. Once everyone is back as a class, have students see who has the matching shamrock to the one they found.

More Ideas:

​​Coin Transfer Dana's Pink Ribbon

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Social and Emotional Activities

Learn more about Ireland

There is so much to explore about Ireland! Listen to Irish Music, read an Irish folk story,
or try some traditional Irish food.

Learn How to do the Irish Jig

Watch a video, and learn how to do the Irish Jig !

Play a game together: Leprechaun Dress-up Rolling Game*

Play a fun game together like this Leprechaun Dress Up Rolling Game from our St. Patrick's Day Activity pack.

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What is something you are lucky to have?

Have a group discussion about things you are lucky to have.

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Pot of Gold Sign-in Activity

​Welcome your students to class with this engaging name recognition activity. 
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St. Patrick's Day Counting Cards

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Download your free copy of this set of St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Counting Cards.

This set includes:

Counting Cards Cards 1-10

Directions, TOS, Graphics Credit

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St. Patrick's Day Math and Literacy Activity Pack

$7.00

This St. Patrick's Day activity pack makes it easy for you to set up fun hands on, engaging preschool math and literacy centers to compliment your themed unit.

This 58-page printable St. Patrick's Day activity pack includes the following activities:

1-10 Rainbow Puzzle

Shamrock Count and Clip Cards

Shamrocks and Gold Uppercase/Lowercase Letter Matching

Rainbow & Clover Color Matching Puzzles

Pot of Gold Counting Mats 1-10

Pot of Gold Counting Mats 1-10 with Frames & Counters

Pot of Gold Counting Mats 1-20 with Frames

Clover Shape Clip Cards

Sorting Gold shapes

Gold Number Matching

Leprechaun Dress Up rolling game

St. Patrick’s Day Pre-Writing/Cutting Practice

St. Patrick’s Day First Sound Clip Cards 

Shamrock Sorting 

Shamrock Pattern Sorting

I spy the number 17

St. Patrick’s Day Word Wall Cards

Cover, TOS, Directions and Graphics Credit

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Spring Fine Motor Sand Sweeping Mats

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These Spring themed Fine Motor Sweeping Mats are a fun way to support preschoolers with fine motor development and focus skills. 

Combine these spring mats with colored sand for an activity your preschooler will ask for again and again. 

This 20-page pack includes the following Spring themed printing sweeping mats:

• Puddle Sweeping Mat
• Bubbl Sweeping Mat
• Raindrop Sweeping Mat
• Umbrella Sweeping Mat
• Lily Pad Sweeping Mat
• Bird Sweeping Mat
• Tulip Sweeping Mat
• Daffodil Sweeping Mat
• Butterfly Sweeping Mat
• Sheep Sweeping Mat
• Earth Sweeping Mat
• Gold Sweeping Mat
• Shamrock Sweeping Mat
• Carrot Sweeping Mat
• Egg Hunt Sweeping Mat
• Rainbow
• Sweeping Mat

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Attendance Daily Sign In Activities

$7.00

This set includes themed daily sign in and sign out attendance activities for your whole year! These activities help young children learn to recognize their names in a fun way. Your students will love finding their names each day. Simply laminate, add velcro and hang on a wall (or place in a binder).

This editable .pdf file includes an automated class list to make it easy to customize your sign in activities. Simply fill in the form and all of the activities will automatically update with your student names.

Inside this editable set you will find the following themed activities:

• Back to School lunchbox/bus cards
• Apple Tree/Apple cards
• Farm/Hay cards
• Pumpkin Patch/Pumpkin cards
• Fire Safety/Fire Truck cards
• Halloween/Candy Corn cards
• Spider Wed/Spider
• Fall Tree/Leaf cards
• Turkey/Feather cards
• Christmas Tree/ornament cards
• Snow/Snowball cards
• Dental Health/Toothbrush cards
• Valentine’s/Candy Heart cards
• Rain/Raindrop cards
• St. Patrick’s Day/Gold Coins cards
• Bubbles cards
• Easter Basket/Egg cards
• Flower/Petal cards
• Ice Cream/cone cards
• Fourth of July/Star cards
• Camping/Tent cards

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