Leprechaun Learning Activities

Leprechauns are a fun part of St. Patrick’s Day, and building leprechaun traps is a fun St. Patrick’s Day STEM activity. Let’s look at some other ways to bring these little green guys into the classroom for some learning fun.

Sing Play Create has some fun facts about leprechauns, coloring pages, games and writing activities aimed at kids kindergarten through third grade.

Make leprechaun stew (a counting activity) with this cute idea from Jenna Pellerin. Or count along with the book Ten Lucky Leprechauns with these math activities from One Sharp Bunch.

Build a leprechaun with this printable that provides lots of good cutting and gluing practice from PJs and Paint. Or make a cute craft stick leprechaun puppet with this tutorial from Crayons and Cravings. This one is made with craft foam but your could probably also do it with cardstock if you don’t have foam handy in the right colors.

Use pictures of kids to make silly leprechaun decorations with this idea from Simple Everyday Mom. This would be a fun one to do to decorate the classroom or use as a bulletin board decoration.

You can also roll and color a leprechaun with this printable activity from Your Therapy Source.

In addition to making leprechaun traps, which I mentioned above, there are lots of fun STEM and STEAM ideas you can make with a St. Patrick’s Day twist. Not all of the St. Patrick’s Day challenges at Carly and Adam have leprechauns involved, but you’ll find a leprechaun collecting gold in a dice rolling game and a leprechaun glyph drawing project. You can find their printables on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Another post with tons of good classroom ideas for St. Patrick’s Day, with a few leprechauns thrown in, is this one from Sweet Firstie Fun. Their resources are at Teachers Pay Teachers, too. I love the shape leprechaun shown here.

Candy Leprechaun Hats [Edible Crafts]

10 Leprechaun traps that re-use all sorts of things [Recycled Crafts]

Fun Games for St. Patrick’s Day Class Parties

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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