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Fun Games for St. Patrick’s Day Class Parties

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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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Earth Day Printables and Activities

I know doing printables for Earth Day doesn’t sound very eco friendly, but it does give you a chance to talk to kids about how you can make the classroom or the home a little greener by only printing what you need, using low ink or only black and white printing, printing on the back of other pages, using recycled paper and recycling what you can when you are done.

These Earth Day printables help kids learn about Earth Day or use earth designs.

Pre-K Pages has Earth Day math printables, including a dice rolling game with a recycling theme, graphing, number grouping and sequencing activities.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a variety of printables for Earth Day including writing prompts, plant life cycle worksheets and links to other activities.

A Dab of Glue will Do has a little printable emergent reader book that explores the basics of Earth Day and some things we can all do to be kind to the planet. You can print it in color or black and white and have kids color it themselves.

Speaking of coloring pages, Preschool Mom has a collection of coloring pages with color versions that you can use as posters in the classroom as well as having kids color the black and white ones.

I love all the printable hands on activities from Differentiated Kindergarten, which help kids build fine motor skills with an Earth Day twist. You’ll find printable mats for use with playdough, geo boards, snap cubes, pattern blocks and Legos, as well as a Q-tip painting activity. You can get these when you sign up for emails.

Here are a few more quick printable Earth Day activities for your kiddos:

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