Fun Games for St. Patrick’s Day Class Parties

March 3, 2023 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

If you do a class party for St. Patrick’s Day, or you’re just looking for some fun on-theme games to play with kids at home, this post has some great ideas.

Play Party Plan has a ton of ideas linked in this post, including minute to win it games, a scavenger hunt, would you rather cards and so much more. You could easily fill most of a day with these ideas. There’s also a word search, art ideas, dice rolling games and musical shamrocks to get your kiddos up and moving! Don’t miss the pin the gold on the rainbow game; so cute!

Another fun set of easy and low-prep St. Patrick’s Day games is described at Kids Activities. Several of these are active games, like relay races and hot potato with a real potato.

If you’re looking for activities that can also serve as decoration for the classroom, check out the printable build a leprechaun puppet from The Purple Pumpkin Blog. It’s shown in color but you could also print it in black and white and have kids color it in to make the activity last a little longer. (And find more St. Patrick’s day craft projects here.)

Tools to Grow OT has a great collection of printables with a St. Patrick’s Day theme, with an emphasis on fine motor skill practice. Some resources are free, and you can get access to more with a free or paid membership. I love the leprechaun beard/ponytail activities where you string yarn onto a picture and then braid it.

I have more St. Patrick’s Day printable activities here that you can use in a classroom or at home to bring some more shamrocks and leprechauns into your life!

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Reflecting on the Past Year with Kids

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

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