Learning Activities Using Shamrocks

A while back I shared a roundup of shamrock themed math activities, and I thought it was time to share some more fun learning activities that you can do with shamrocks because they’re such a fun shape.

Make a simple lacing card with this template from Carrots are Orange to give kids a little practice with their fine motor skills. (You can find more shamrock templates for this or other crafts at The Artisan Life, or search online for more.)

If you happen to have some green craft foam or felt you can make this easy shape puzzle game from Little Family Fun. You could even make it a sort of scavenger hunt, hiding the pieces around the room and then have kids match them up. Make this a language arts activity by writing an upper case letter on one half and the corresponding lower case letter on the other. Or you can pair up sight words, prefixes and suffixes, or numerals with the word for the number, to name a few.

Speaking of number matching, there’s a printable from Team Cartwright that takes it a step further, with shamrocks you can cut apart and each petal shows the number presented in a different way so kids have to find them, match them up and put them back together. (There’s also a color by number printable here.)

Play with patterns and simple shapes with these building block shamrocks from JDaniel4’s Mom. You can use small building blocks and construction paper to reinforce that these things are the same shapes, or just use one or the other, whatever you have on hand that’s easy for you.

Do a little shamrock counting and coloring with these super cute printables from Crystal & Comp. Kids can color the rainbow and color and count the shamrocks, then write the numbers and the word for the number with the help of a tracing section at the bottom (or cut that part off and have older kids write the words and numerals on their own).

And get kids moving by hiding shamrocks all over the room/house and playing the shamrock math race game from Coffee Cups and Crayons. Super easy to set up and kids can play it endlessly!

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Fun Shamrock Craft Projects

The other day I shared some crafts involving fall leaves, but there are a lot of fun leaf-related activities that don’t use real leaves, so I wanted to share some of those, too.

Like these watercolor leaves from The Artful Parent. These are so pretty and would be great to make a garland or decorate the table for Thanksgiving. You could experiment with different kinds of paper, combine watercolors and crayons, use an eyedropper to apply liquid watercolors — there are lots of different ways to play with this one!

Because I’m a knitter of course I love any project that involves yarn, so this fall leaf lacing craft from Our Kid Things is right up my alley. The multicolored yarn they used is a lot of fun, or stick with fall colors. Either way it’s a great fine motor skill activity!

Using leaf shapes to make other crafts is a great way to incorporate leaves into the classroom without having to use actual leaves. For little kids this sensory painting activity from Kids Craft Room would be a lot of fun (I think this would be fun for some older kids and adults, too, to be honest) and makes a fun and easy decoration.

Of course leaf activities don’t just have to be crafts. Check out this great leaf matching game from Made to be a Momma. These leaves are so cute and after you’ve prepped the game you can play it over and over with no prep. Use fewer sets for younger kids and the full set for older ones.

You can also use leaf shapes in all sorts of learning activities, like in this fall leaf number tower activity from Fun Learning for Kids. There are leaves with single numbers on them that kids can use to stack cubes on in one-to-one correspondence, as well as ones that show dots like dice so kids can add up the numbers to build their stacks.

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