Crafts and Activities for St. George’s Day

I find it hard to believe but it seems to be true that in all these years I’ve never written about St. George’s Day, celebrated on April 23. St. George is the patron saint of England, who was believed to have lived around the 3rd century. He’s usually depicted as a knight, and it’s thought he was in the Roman Army.

He’s associated with dragons because, according to legend, a kingdom was being terrorized by a dragon, and George offered to help if the king would allow his people to be baptized. The king agreed and after a long battle, George killed the dragon. You can learn more about his story and find some good printables to use in the classroom at Twinkl.

Twinkl also has this cute printable story spinner, as well as a knight mask craft and more fun crafts and activities.

Teaching Ideas has a fun St. George’s Day activity pack including a printable banner with the St. George’s flag (white background with a red cross), word search, coloring pages and more. Don’t miss the retelling of St. George’s story in Lego embedded in the post; it’s spectacular.

Grab some St. George’s Day coloring sheets from Hodgepodge Days, which includes the one of St. George shown here, a flag, design your own shield and St. George and the dragon.

Kiddy Charts has a great printable activity book that includes bingo cards, a word search, acrostic poem worksheet, a mindmap for writing the story and a worksheet to write the story on.

And of course you’ll want some crafts, too! I love the St. George shadow puppets from My Baba, though the post just says to draw the characters you could probably trace them from the images in the blog post or find a castle, dragon, horse and knight clip art to use.

I love this simple wooden spoon dragon from The Gingerbread House, and these gorgeous paper plate dragons from Pink Stripey Socks. This St. George made out of a spoon and craft foam is really cute, too. Get the tutorial from Baker Ross.

Kids all seem to go through a phase of loving trivia, and if you’ve got kids who want to know about the tallest, biggest and weirdest things in nature, they’ll enjoy the book Once in a Blue Moon by Emily Hawkins.

The book explores wonders of astronomy, meteorology, big trees, weird animals, volcanoes and more to show off the rarest events and phenomena in the natural world.

Kids ages 7-10 will learn about the lake (Lake Hillier, on an island off Australia) that has water that’s bubblegum pink, the world’s deepst came (Veryovkina Cave in the country of Georgia) and the world’s biggest tree, a banyan in southeast India with a canopy that covers more than five acres!

Readers will learn what a blue moon is, how supernovas happen and about Haley’s comet and solar eclipses, among other space-related phenomena. Closer to home they’ll learn about stinky flowers, bleeding trees, glowing fungi and pizzly bears.

There’s content about times when it’s rained frogs (and when frogs have exploded en masse), when snow made giant snowballs all by itself and how clouds stack on themselves like pancakes. The book also explores ball lightning, sun dogs, St. Elmo’s fire and more.

I love books like this and I know kids do, too. There’s so much weird and wonderful about our world and even as adults we don’t know about all of these things. I found it fun to learn, for example, that there’s a volcano on the island of Java that not only sends out blue flames from vents near its crater, it’s also home to an acidic lake.

Illustrations by Vlad Stankovic illuminate these weird natural wonders and are sure to get kids interested in learning more about some of these remarkable animals, plants, rock formations and more.

About the book: 80 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail price $30.

Have you read?

Leave a Reply