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

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St. Patrick's Day Math Activities

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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