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Teaching
Heart!
Everything a
Teachers Needs For St. Patrick's Day!
Happy St.
Patrick's Day from Teaching Heart! I love this
green little holiday. Here are a few of my
favorite St. Patrick's Day Activities! I hope you
find an idea or two you can use with your class.
Updated March 2010.
Free to Print
From Teaching Heart
Graphing
the St. Patrick's Way- (1-2)
Your students cut out various St.
Patrick's Day Pictures. They then place
those pictures on their graph. After the
pictures are on the graph, they answer
questions about the graph. This is found in our
St. Patty Pack
A
Little Color Green Book (k-2) (Click
to download for free) A fill in the blank
book for your students to complete. This is found in our
St. Patty Pack
Great Thematic
Activities For Your St. Patrick's Day Unit
(Grades K-2)
1.) Graphing
the St. Patrick's Way- (1-2) (FREE TO
DOWNLOAD)
Your students cut out various St. Patrick's Day
Pictures. They then place those pictures on their
graph. After the pictures are on the graph, they
answer questions about the graph. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
2.) Leprechaun
Erase a Rhyme Activity - (k-2)
This is three sheets. The first sheet is teacher
directions. The second sheet is an easy to draw
graphic of leprechaun. (The students may also
keep this at their seats and cross out the parts
as you work the lesson with the class.) The third
sheet is an independent activity for your
students to complete after the lesson. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
3.) Mini Book-
(k-2)
Your student is given various pictures to color
and then cut. They place these pictures on the
correct pages of the given book! A very cute
book! ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
4.) Roll For
St. Patrick's Day (k-2)
A gameboard for a dice game. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
5.) Leprechaun
Word Building -(1-2)
Includes the letters in the word Leprechaun for
your students to cut & use. They must then
use the letters to form words and answer
questions. This also makes a great word building
center! ~This activity will be found
on our CDROM #3
6.) St.
Patrick's Day Following Directions Activity
(k-2)-
Student read directions and completes various
activities. These directions can be read by the
teacher (listening comprehension) or the student
(reading comprehension). ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
7.) A
Little Color Green Book (k-2) (Click to
download for free)
A fill in the blank book for your students to
complete. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
8.) Pocket
Chart Fill in The Blank (k-2)
Materials for your pocket chart. All you need to
do is print, laminate, and cut. You can use this
as a group activity (k-1) or as an independent
center (1-2). Includes a center sheet for your
student to complete after they finish the center.
Students must find the picture that fits in the
blank. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
9.) Letters In
Leprechaun Activity Sheet (1-2)
Student finds words that start with the letters
in the word Leprechaun. They organize their words
on this sheet. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
10.) Shamrock
Shopping Activity Sheet(1-2)
St. Patrick's Day Words are given. Each letter
has a value. Students must add up the letters to
find a total cost of a given word. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
11.) Shamrocks
Count By 5's Envelope Center (k-1)
Print, laminate, and cut a few of these sets.
Place ach set in an envelope or baggie. The
students must place these in the correct order. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
12.) Sorting
St. Patrick's Day Shapes (k-1)
Student cuts out various ST. Pat's day graphics
and glues them to a sorting sheet. ~This activity will not be
found on our CDROMS
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Graphing
the Green
What color comes to mind when you think of St.
Patrick's Day? Green of course! So
celebrate the holiday and the color by completing
the activity below.
YOU WILL
NEED -Large sheet of bulleting board paper -A 1/2
sheet of shamrock stickers for each student
PREPARE THE
LARGE SHEET OF B-BOARD: -draw a line down the
middle -make nine columns going across -on the
left side of the line write the following
questions in each box.
1. I am
wearing green.
2. The house I live in is green.
3. My favorite color is green.
4. I like green beans.
5. My family has a green car.
6. I have a green pencil.
7. My winter coat is green.
8. I like green Jell-O.
9. I have used a green crayon.
10. I know a word that rimes with green.
HOW IT WORKS:
1.) Have a volunteer read #1.
2.) Invite students up to place a sticker
in the column next to #1 if it applies.
3.) Repeat 1-2 for all the questions.
4.) Have students use the graph to answer
questions during a class discussion
A Leprechaun
Booklet
Pass out an oval shaped piece of paper to
each student.Tell the class to draw and color a
leprchaun on the paper. The leprechan can
be any size and doing anything the student
wishes. Brainstorm ideas with the class to
encourage creativity. The teacher may wish
to make her picture in advance. I made one
of a leprachaun crawling over a rainbow to get to
a pot of gold waiting at the other end.
Then have each student write a story or paragraph
about the leprechaun he or she has drawn,
complete with an appropriate title.
Collect the pictures and glue them into a
booklet. Have the students illustrate from
and back covers for the book. The photo
copy a second booklet of stories and
pictures. Suggest that the students try to
match the story with the picture.
Pots of Gold
Paint 11 small paper cups black to represent pots
of gold. Spray paint 55 or more beans
gold. Make 11 shamrocks and label each with
a numeral from 0-10. Attach a labeled
shamrock to each pot. To do this
activity, the student places the correct number
of gold pieces into each pot. Also, you
may wish to have the students place the shamrocks
in numerical order. Another idea is to
label some more shamrocks with addition,
subtraction, or multiplication questions.
Then attach these shamrocks to the pots.
Have the children use the gold pieces as counters
and put gold pieces equivalent to the sum and
differences in appropriate pots.
Have the class go
on a clover hunt. Supply a zip lock bag and
tell them to collect lots of clovers.
Award a student who finds a four leaf
clover. Have the students bring their
clovers back to the classroom. Since you
have clovers of many sizes - you can make a
sequencing game. Do this by pressing each
one between wax paper sheets using a warm
iron. Cut the center from an index card to
make a frame for each of the clovers. Tape
a pressed clover to each frame. Store the
clover cards in reusable bags decorated with a
clover sticker. To use the cards have the
students remove them from the bag and put them in
order by size.
Creative Writing
on shamrock shaped paper: What would you do if
you found a pot of gold, What is really at the
end of the rainbow, A leprechaun came to room 6,
what would you do with a 100 LB potato.
Make a class graph
of whether or not your students believe in
leprechauns.
Go on a tour of
your school, write down everything green you see.
You can make a class book A Wee Bit O'Green at
the _______ School.
Place some lucky charms in a bag for each
student. You can graph the different
marshmallows. You can also do story problems like
add your horshoe marshmallows to your rainbow.
Etc. Activity Sheets Above To Print!
Students create
their own leprechaun stories from ideas written
on the shamrocks. Students brainstorm their own
ideas to write on the shamrocks: (glue glitter
around the edge of each shamrock)
A leprechaun
who lost his magic powers
I woke up one
morning and the world was green
A wizard cast a
spell on all the leprechauns
I finally
caught a leprechaun
The day I
found, not a pot of gold, but a pot of leprechaun
dust!
Final drafts
are written on white paper and leprechaun pattern
is placed over, near or behind the story so it
looks as if the leprechaun is holding the story!
(or pattern can be traced over the story for a
nice effect)
Shamrock Math
Duplicate about 20 shamrocks and write a
different multiplication fact (or whatever
concept you want to stress) on each one number
each shamrock sequentially(1-20)
Make a trail of
shamrocks that lead to the end of the rainbow.
(Looks great on a wall leading to a bulletin
board)
Students number
their papers from 1-20 and copy the fact from
each shamrock; each fact is then answered.
When the
student arrives at the end of the rainbow, an
answer key is used to check all work;
Then the
student takes a piece of "gold"
(gold-wrapped candy)
SHAMROCK
COUNTING BOOKS
Use white or green paper to make a blank book for
each student. Number the pages in each book from
1 to 5. Then hand out the books and invite the
students to rubber-stamp matching numbers of
green shamrock prints on their book pages. Or
give them shamrock stickers to attach to their
pages,.
Gold and Silver
Sorting
Give each of student a piece of paper folded in
half and set of torn scraps of gold and silver
wrapping paper. Invite students to sort the
pieces by gluing the gold scraps on one half of
their papers and the silver scraps on the other
half.
Rolling Shamrocks
Game
Here's a fun dice game
my kiddos played today. I like it because
they both can play it together
independently. My four year old is working
on her counting skills and her big brother gets
to play along too. This would also work
well for a fun St. Pat's Day game at your
classroom party!
All you need is the printable game board (click the link
to download), dice, and a crayon
per player. Players take turns coloring in
their shamrocks. First player to color in
all their shamrocks is LUCKY!!!
Above is something free I would
like to share with you in time for St. Patrick's
Day. It is something my kids have been having fun
with it. All you need is a dice, two markers (I
used apple jacks cereal), and this free
printable pdf file.
The file is pretty large and will take you about
five minutes to cut up and tape together once you
have printed it. It has enough material for four
players. You can play 1 to 4 players. If this is
going to be used in a classroom, I suggest you
laminate it! The object is to collect all five
lucky charms to put on your shamrock. When your
shamrock is full, you are done and very lucky!
How to Play: Each player gets one shamrock to
fill. Taking turns each player rolls the dice and
moves their piece ahead.
Once they land they must pull a card and answer
the question. You will see that I have two sets
of cards on my board. One set is programed for my
son (second grade sight words are alreadyon some
of the cards). I programed the rest of his cards
(the blank ones provided) with math problems and
the Kindergarten writing strokes. You can program
the blank cards with skills your child or student
needs to work on. The other set of cards have
things my three year old is working on (shapes,
colors, letter sounds, numbers). This game is
great because two people working on two different
levels can play together! Great when you have a
six year old and a three year old playing
together. These two pictures below give you an
idea of what two sets of different level cards
would look like!!!
Once they answer the card correctly they complete
the activity on the square they landed on. If
they land on a lucky charm they do not have they
may take the lucky charm and place it on their
card. If they already have the charm, they do
nothing. Each square tells you what to do. If it
is blank, just wait for your next turn. Keep
going around the board till the shamrock has one
of each charm on it. Pretty self explanatory.
My kiddos loved this game! I hope your children
or students enjoy it too and don't even realize
they are practicing skills they need to know.
Magic Recipes
Magic
Pudding
Supply each
student in your class a plastic cup with 2TBS of
Pistachio Pudding Mix (the powder instant)
and a green or gold plastic spoon for stirring.
One package of instant pistachio pudding makes 4
servings. There is a little over 7 tablespoons of
pudding in a package.
A great idea is
to place these on the students desk while they
are out, along with this note
(You could glue the note to the cup or place it
on their desk):
CLICK HERE TO SEE AND PRINT THE NOTE
When they come
back they see the note. Walk around with milk and
pour a half cup of milk in their cup.
Then have the students stir the mixture. They
will be amazed to see the powder turn green and
thicken to make
pistachio pudding that most students have never
tasted!
Favorite Poems, Songs, and Fingerplays
Five Green
Shamrocks
Five green shamrocks growing outdoors
(Child's name) picked one, and that left four.
Four little shamrocks, green as they can be.
(Child's name) picked one and that left three.
Three green shamrocks so shiny, fresh and new
(child's name) picked one and that left two.
Two little shamrocks nodding in the sun,
(Childs name) picked one, and that left one.
One little shamrock for St. Patrick's Day fun.
(Child's name) picked it, and that left none.
Five Wee
Leprechauns
Five wee leprechauns scurrying by my door,
One jumped away, then there were 4.
Four wee leprechauns climbing in my tree,
One hid in the green leaves, then there
were 3.
Three wee leprechauns, just a busy few,
One went for a pot of gold, then there were
2.
Two wee leprechauns, having lots of fun,
One hopped over the rainbow, then there was
1.
One wee leprechaun, with all his work done.
He slipped off for a nap, then there was 0.
Leprechaun,
Leprechaun
Leprechaun, leprechaun,
Hiding in the hay.
(Hide pointer finger under opposite
hand.)
Leprechaun, leprechaun,
Don't you run away.
(Hop pointer finger around.)
Leprechaun, leprechaun,
Let's go out and play.
(Hop both pointer fingers together.)
Leprechaun, leprechaun,
It's St. Patrick's Day!
(Dance pointer fingers up and down.)
Lots of Little
Leprechauns
*kids can act this out
Lots of little leprechauns dancing in a
ring,
Lots of little leprechauns, hear them
sing!
Ooooooo-oooooooooh
Lots of little leprechauns wave their arms
high;
Lots of little leprechauns give a loud
cry;
Ooooooo-oooooooooh!
Lots of little leprechauns in a hollow
tree,
Lots of little leprechauns quiet as can be ~
Shhh....
Shamrock Song
tune: "Ten Little Indians"
Materials:
10 green construction paper clovers
Give each child his/her own paper shamrock.
One little, two little, three little clovers,
four little, five little, six little clovers,
seven little, eight little, nine little clovers,
ten clovers in a row.
Each child places his/her clover on the floor,
lining them up in a row.
I'm a little
shamrock, (Hold fingers close together to
represent something tiny.)
See my leaves. (Close one eye, and pretend to
look through magnifying glass.)
Count my petals, (Symbolize counting on fingers.)
If you please.
If you give me water and lots of sun, (Pretend to
pour water.)
I'll bring you good luck and lots of fun!
(Smile.)
My Favorite Books For St. Patrick's Day
Click a book to learn more about it!
Print 10 graphics of
a pot of gold. Write a change amount
on each pot. Have your students place the correct amount
of
play money on the pot.
Below is a picture
of what this center might look like.
St.
Patrick's Day Glyph
CD# 3 Contains Printables for this activity. Includes a
glyph for the student, display materials, and a
data sheet for each student in your class to complete.
Cute Free Printable mini book:
Leprechaun Walk
Graphing
the Green 
