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

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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