Create Irish Magic With These St Patricks Day Activities Perfect For Kids

The perfect way to start your St Paddy's Day with some terrific clues to help your kids find the hidden Leprechaun treasure! Easy instructions on how to set up your game and ideas what to use as your 'treasure' prize.

While the leprechaun’s pot is usually filled with gold, this year he is going to get all the colors of the rainbow. Kids will love the colorful fizz that oozes out of each cauldron with this fun project.

Leprechaun gardens are a slightly kinder, gentler spin on the leprechaun traps that are so popular this time of year. Make a nice home that will entice a magical little visitor to stay with this craft.

One thing about leprechauns is, they are very tricky. Help spot the sneaky little creatures with these leprechaun looker binoculars made from some old toilet paper tubes.

Math has never been this fun and might never be again. Kids take a bowlful of Lucky Charms cereal, and use the printable chart to graph the frequency of each type of marshmallow.

Some activities are meant for together time, but some activities are useful for keeping the kids busy for a bit. This printable activity chart is the perfect way to keep the kids distracted while you make the corned beef and cabbage.

This printable alphabet shamrock is a great way to have some fun with the littles. Kids will learn more about letters by covering each one on the shamrock with a matching sticker.

Here’s a great way for kids to make some interesting-looking art without needing tons of setup. Use the shamrock printable template, a straw, and some green paint to help them make a masterpiece.

Since catching leprechauns doesn’t often pan out, kids can just make their own instead. An assortment of pieces and some play dough are all they will need.

These printable lacing cards are a great way to help kids build fine motor skills. The lucky charms theme goes perfect with a bowl of the cereal that goes by the same name.

Scissor skills cards offer two big benefits: kids can learn scissor skills while also building fine motor skills. These fun printable leprechauns are a great way to get kids cutting.

Here’s a printable that offers a fun game for little ones and also helps develop number skills. Kids use the cards to feed the leprechaun the right number which teaches counting and number recognition.

Here are a few themed puzzles just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Some are pre-colored, and some are ready for the kids to color before they are cut apart and put back together.

Memory is a favorite among most kids since they just seem to have a knack for it. This version helps build literacy skills with several levels to suit several different ages of learners.

Homemade play dough is a fantastic craft for so many reasons. It can be customized to fit any holiday or color scheme, and it doesn’t matter if kids blend it together, since you can just make more. Follow this great St. Patrick’s Day play dough recipe to whip some up today.

There’s nothing like a little playacting to capture kids’ minds. They can help turn this printable template into a series of cute little St. Patrick’s Day puppets.

Here’s an interesting spin on the classic memory game. All of these cards have shamrocks on them, but they are different sizes. Kids can use a magnifying glass to check the smaller ones and make sure they match.

This printable St. Patrick’s Day activity is a fun spin on the standard leprechaun. This one can be customized into a magical little superhero who also has a horse.

Salt tray drawing is a great, low-pressure way to start a child down the path to writing. Dye the salt green for St. Patrick’s Day, then have them draw in some shamrocks as well as other shapes, numbers, or letters.

Most people don’t know this, but leprechauns don’t always use magic for everything. For example, this printable has tons of magical leprechaun packages that they can send to each other this St. Patrick’s Day.

Play dough mats are a perfect way to help kids develop fine motor skills while having fun. These printable mats challenge them to make all sorts of leprechaun-related things using play dough.