Lucky Charms of Creativity: St. Patrick's Day Crafts & Activities for Kids

Leprechaun Potions

Leprechaun Traps

Can you build a trap to catch the silly leprechaun? This collaborative STEM small world invitation is a super fun way for children to get creative and experimenting! 

Invite children to explore the small world and use the materials to build a trap for the leprechaun! Along the way you can ask them to draw their idea, discuss what materials they need, use it as a writing prompt and more.  They can also search for gold that might be hidden around the world! 

Follow the Rainbow to the Pot of Gold 

Can you create the rainbow to lead you to the leprechauns pot of gold? This is such a fun and easy loose part activity you can set up in under 5 minutes to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

Place a tuff tray paper insert in your tuff tray and then draw a pot and a rainbow coming out of it to act as your leprechaun's pot of gold! Then place golden loose parts in the cauldron to be your gold. In other sorting bowls add all kinds of different rainbow coloured loose parts. Then invite children to begin sorting and creating the rainbow!

Process Art Spin Art Shamrocks 

This is such a fun and easy St. Patrick's Day shamrock process art activity that will have you and your little learners feeling lucky! 

All you need:
-Washable Tempera Paint
-A Salad Spinner
-Cardstock paper

Print out a shamrock outline and cut it out! Using tape secure your paper shamrock to the bottom of the salad spinner and then pour all kinds of shades of green on your shamrock. Spin, spin, spin! Then reveal your lucky shamrock.

Leprechaun Gold Foam

Can you find the gold hidden by the leprechaun in the foam? This is a super fun and easy sensory play activity that children will love digging right into.

Pour chickpea water in a mixing bowl and then add food colouring! Add a 1/2 teaspoon of cream of tartar to the mixture and mix on high. Then leave mixing for about 5 minutes till you have a light fluffy foam. Then add gold gems to a sensory tray and pour your foam over so it’s fully covered!

Then invite children to dig in and find the gold.

End of the Rainbow Leprechaun Small World 

This is such a magical small world forest invitation that children will love as they explore, imagine, and create their own leprechaun adventures! 

Fill your tuff tray with a grassy base and add wooden loose parts like trees, mushrooms, bridges, animals, and colourful stepping stones to build a whimsical forest landscape. Scatter sparkling “leprechaun gold” gems throughout the tray and invite children to explore the forest, cross the bridge, discover hidden treasure, and create their own magical stories.

Small world invitations like this encourage children to use their imagination while exploring nature-inspired materials and loose parts play. 

Process Art Watercolour Clovers

This is a fun and easy process art activity for St. Patrick’s day.

All you need is liquid watercolour paint, colour diffusing paper, and pipettes! Pour your liquid watercolour paper in the paint pots and have a few extra to explore mixing blue and yellow to make other shades of green.Then take pipettes and start painting your clovers!

Once you finish you will have a whole patch of unique clovers

Loose Parts Shamrock

This activity is a great way to explore open ended play & create! I took some rainbow wooden arches and formed a shamrock shape and used loose parts around me with different shades of green to celebrate.

Some ways to extend this activity:
-Invite children to colour sort toys & loose parts that are similar shades of green
-Talk about different shades of green or names for those shades: lime, emerald, hunter, sage, mint, etc.

Leprechaun Gold Hunt

Can you help the Leprechauns find all their gold? 

Search through the grass at the end of rainbow to find the Leprechaun gold that is hidden all around! Help the leprechauns sort their gold into pots with the right amount of gold.

This tray is a fun and festive way to get in the spirit of St.Patrick's Day! This tray explore early math concepts such as counting & number recognition while offering a sensory element!

Paper Chain Pot of Gold

Let's make the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!

All you need:

-Glue

-Scissors

-Construction paper

Step One: Take all your rainbow constructino paper and cut a strip of each colour! Then fold them together to create a loop and glue either end together. Then glue them together to form a chain of rainbow colours.

Step Two: Take a piece of black construction paper and cut out the shape of a cirle to be the port! Then take a piece of yellow consutrction and cut multiple sizes of circles to be your gold! Tape them to the pot and each other to create your pot of gold. Then attach your rainbow chain!

Shamrock Lacing 

This is a super fun activity to allow your child to explore open ended lacing and build key fine motor skills. They can choose to follow the outline or lace between holes to create a unique deisgn!

All you need is yarn, a hole punch and a shamrock!
-Cut out a shamrock shape from green construction paper. Pro tip: to create the shamrock shape draw three hearts and then a stem.
-Once complete, take a hole punch and create holes across the edge of your shamrock.
-Cut a large piece of yarn and either demonstrate lacing or encourage your child to explore!

You can also encourage children to experiment with measuring by asking them how long of a piece of yarn do they need? Can you lace the whole piece? Experiment with different options for lacing! Can you lace with ribbon? twine? yarn of different textures?

Shades of Green Sensory Bin 

This activity is a great way to explore the colour green right in time for St. Patrick's Day! In a container pour a green sensory bin filler (we used two shades of green rainbow rice) and loose parts of all shades of green!

-Encourage children to explore the sensory bin and sort the green loose parts into shades and point out the similarities and difference in the colours!
-Count how many of each shade there are and name the shades. Is it emerald, mint, turquoise, etc.
-Take paint and pick a loose part and encourage children to experiment with colour mixing to try and match the colour!

Pot of Gold Sensory Tray

This activity is a fun and festive way to discover all the gold at the end of a rainbow! Can you help the leprechauns find it all? This tray explore early math concepts such as counting & number recognition while offering a sensory element!

Fill a tuff tray with green rainbow rice and then add craft shamrocks, gold coins and gems! Then add in small cauldrons to fill with your gold.

St. Patrick's Day Loose Parts

These refillable window blocks are a great way to set a theme and explore different sensory items & textures!

Some ways to extend this activity:
-Encourage children to find all kinds of themed pieces to fill your blocks! Craft pieces, loose parts, items from a nature walk 
-Talk about different tones & shades of green! What are those colours?
-Call out for your child to select a certain block based on its shape or what is inside!
-Encourage them to experiment with the blocks and build different structures!

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