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.

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As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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