Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with your kindergarten students is a fun way to kick off your spring learning! Get ready for the greenest day of the year by trying out these five fun ideas for your kindergarten classroom.
Without fail, St . Patrick’s Day usually falls sometime over spring break and inevitably sneaks up on me! I don’t want that to happen to you this year, so let’s jump into all of these fun activities to celebrate this fun day with your students.
If you teach toddlers or preschool students, be sure to check out this post: March Toddler Activities. Many of the activities could be used with Kindergarten students too!
St. Patrick’s Day Count and Write the Room
Count and write the room activities are perfect for children learning to count objects in a ten frame. Children will love counting and writing numbers the entire school year with these Kindergarten Count and Write the Room Activities. 10 fun themes are included to keep students engaged and help them practice counting objects.
This St. Patrick’s Day Count and Write the Room Activity is perfect for kindergarten students this month! You can check out more counting activities in this post, 12 Counting Activities to Teach Numbers 1-10.
St. Patrick’s Day Roll, Count and Color Math
Dice are a great math manipulative for kindergarten students. Little ones will love this St. Patrick’s Day Roll and Color worksheet! Children will simply roll the dice, count the dots and color the number to match.
Roll and Color worksheets are included for each season in this product, Dice Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten.
St. Patrick’s Day Addition
Addition is an important skill for kindergarten students! These activities make practicing addition fun for kids!
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These simple worksheets are perfect for practicing addition and subtraction.
Worth More Than Gold Writing
Class books are my favorite tool for writing with younger students. This class book is the perfect St. Patrick’s Day Kindergarten activity!
Class books are one of my favorite ways to Kindergarten students excited about writing! They are always a favorite in the classroom library and it is so important for kids to share their writing and illustrations with their peers. You can check out more class book ideas in this post, Class Books for Kindergarten.
For this class book, students will be writing something that is more worth to them than gold and then drawing a picture to match!
You can download this class book for free and save big on class books for the entire school year with this bundle, Seasonal Class Books for Kindergarten.
Leprechaun Prepositions Book
Prepositions are words that tell where or when something is in relation to something else. I really enjoy teaching this concept because it’s so hands-on! If you find yourself teaching prepositions this spring, check out these Leprechaun preposition ideas. Perfect for pairing with St. Patrick’s Day!
This book contains 10 pages including a page where students can draw and write their own prepositions using a leprechaun! Little Leprechaun’s Book of Prepositions is perfect for kindergarten and first-grade students.
St. Patrick’s Day Writing
Seasonal words are a great addition to the word wall and encourage students to write! I always recommend printing on white cardstock and laminating to help the cards last longer. These St. Patrick’s Day Word Wall Words can be used for any themed writing activity.
Build a Leprechaun Trap
Building a leprechaun trap is a wonderful STEM activity for students. Leprechaun traps can be built out of so many different materials!
If your students will be designing a leprechaun trap, be sure to grab this STEM response page. Students will use this page to plan and draw their leprechaun trap design and then reflect on if it worked or not! You can definitely encourage your students to use prepositions when writing out the plan for their trap too!
I hope these St. Patrick’s Day kindergarten activities gave you some fun ideas for celebrating with your students!