10 FUN St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Pre-K
It’s March! Dive head first into the St. Patrick’s Day theme with these 10 fun activities for your Pre-K classroom.
Keep your little learners engaged while learning all the important standards with hands-on, delicious, and interesting crafts, resources, and sensory play!
Read on and grab a FREEBIE while you’re at it too!
Lucky Charms Sort & Graph
Turn a delicious snack into a great learning opportunity.
Your little learners will practice important math skills as they sort and graph cereal (& of course enjoy a yummy treat too!)
This resource includes three activity mats and five printable dice for easy, fun! Print in color or black and white.
Find other Sort & Graph Mats in this growing bundle.
Lucky Charm Names
Practice building names with Lucky Charms cereal!
Grab strips of green paper to keep it festive for St. Patrick’s Day and write each child’s name on the page. Little ones will increase fine motor skills while gluing and picking up pieces of cereal one at a time.
If your little ones aren’t ready to squeeze the glue (or it’s just too messy for your liking), pre-squeeze a little into small condiment cups then let little hands use q-tips to trace the letters of their names in glue before placing the pieces of cereal on top.
It’s a super fun activity in the classroom, but also super fun at home too!
Rainbow Sorting Activity
Practice counting, color identification, matching, and fine motor skills with this rainbow counting mat activity.
Use your favorite rainbow cereals or candies like Fruit Loops, Skittles, Lucky Charms, or any other rainbow manipulatives like mini erasers for lots of fun! Slip the mat into a sleeve to use it over and over again.
Keep your Pre-K students engaged with this easy-to-use resource in your classroom!
St. Patrick’s Shapes Roll & Graph
Make preschool math fun with this St. Patrick’s Day Shapes Roll & Graph activity. It includes gold coin shapes and rainbow shapes with printable dice to make your math centers fun, engaging, and easy to prep!
Print in color or black and white, and use manipulatives like mini erasers to add some extra fun.
Students roll the printable dice to see what shapes win while reviewing key concepts like shapes, emotions, and colors.
It’s also a part of a growing bundle.
Pot of Gold Chain Writing Craft
Use this craft as a replacement for writing for the day. Ask students what they would buy if they found a pot of gold. Their answers are bound to be adorable!
This activity is perfect for differentiation! Prep strips or paper to make chains or themed shapes from the die-cutter for easy options. Leave a little more prep work and allow your preschoolers to practice scissor skills by cutting out pieces or strips on their own.. OR create DIY rainbow handprints from each child to make a sweet keepsake to send home.
Fizzy Shamrocks
Make fizzy shamrocks using baking soda and vinegar for a fun and interactive Pre-K science sensory bin activity!
How To:
1. Mix baking soda and water to create a thick paste
2. Squirt in food coloring
3. Fill shamrock mold with baking soda mixture and freeze
4. Add vinegar to a squeeze bottle (or use droppers, scoopers, or pour straight from the bottle)
5. Put frozen shamrocks into a deep tray and PLAY!
Supplies:
- Baking soda, water, food dye
- Vinegar and pouring/squeezing tools
- Shamrock mold
- Deep tray
Extra options:
1. Add sequins or glitter to the tray for some Leprechaun sparkle
2. Add dish soap to the tray to make the bubbles more foamy
Old Lady Clover Craft
This Old Lady Book Buddy Craft includes one large old lady and 7 small St. Patrick’s Day pieces.
Practice cutting and gluing while coloring for lots of hands-on fun for your pre-k class. Focus on story retell and sequencing too!
Coin Names
This St. Patrick’s Day Pot of Gold Name Craft is great for name writing and name building skills! Students get one circle (coin) per letter of their name, then cut and glue their pot of gold together.
Let little ones practice writing their own name or you can type the letters you need and print before using this activity. (It’s easy to edit in Adobe PDF)
Add a bit of gold glitter to give your coins a bit of sparkle!
Grab this resource individually or as a part of a GROWING BUNDLE for name practice year-around.
Pot of Gold ABC Match-Up FREEBIE
Use this alphabet match-up mat in a sensory bin, hide the cards around the room, or use it as a simple match-up center.
This freebie includes capital letters, lowercase letters, and beginning sounds. It also comes both in color and black & white.
Pot of Gold Writing Mat
Little ones will practice writing letters with this Pot of Gold Writing Mat over and over again!
How To:
- Cut out and laminate the pot of gold or slip into a plastic sleeve protector.
- Use magnet letters, letter tiles, letter coins, or any letter manipulative to place inside the gold on the mat.
- Then use a dry erase marker to write the letters on the dotted line.
Practice with capital letters or lowercase letters, and target any leveled learner by using the specific letters needed for each student.
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