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St. Patrick’s Day activities the best way to start off a Patrick’s Day activity is to talk a bit with your students about the legends behind St. Patrick’s Day. For example: read them a story about the leprechauns who find gold at the end of the rainbow. Tell them that it has become a superstition that finding a four-leaf clover in a clover patch will bring good luck. Tell them about St. Patrick driving all of the snakes out of Ireland. (There really are no snakes in Ireland!)

Now, let the St. Patrick’s day activities begin!

St. Patrick’s Day activities for younger children:

• St. Patrick’s Day activities: making snacks:

Let the children make their own St. Patrick’s Day snacks. This St. Patrick’s Day activity is fun and easy:

• Bring in sugar cookies or cupcakes for the children’s snacks.
• Bring in white icing and a tiny bottle of green food coloring.
• Let the children mix the icing with the food coloring to make green icing for their cupcakes or cookies. Suggestion: you may want to give the children little cups or bowls for this so they can mix their own icing—or group them into small groups or pairs to share with their peers. (This will not be a Patrick’s Day activity that all the students can get involved in at first if you do not split up the icing into smaller portions.)
• Let the students decorate their cookies or cupcakes all by themselves. Have green sprinkles or even clover-shaped sprinkles for them to put on top.
• Have a gallon of green milk prepared. Give children each a cup of green milk to drink with their St. Patrick’s Day snacks.

• St. Patrick’s Day activities: Potato Face

In this simple project, a brown paper grocery bag and construction paper are made into a cute potato head.

• You will need:

A brown paper grocery bag (or brown construction paper)
Various colors of construction paper
Scissors
pencils
Glue
 

• Have the children cut out a potato shape, using the brown paper bag (or brown construction paper). The potato shape must be at least as big as your hand, otherwise it will be too hard to glue the facial features on it.
• Have your students cut out the eyes (the whites plus the pupils), as well as a nose, mouth, hair, bowtie, green top hat, and any other desired features.
• Glue the features onto the brown paper potato head.

You now have a potato face to help you celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is one of my favorite St. Patrick’s Day activities for older children.

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