Shamrock Math Games and Activities

Give your learning a St. Patrick’s Day twist with these shamrock themed math (and a little bit of literacy, too) printables and game ideas. Shamrocks are such a fun shape and they can easily be incorporated into tracing, counting and other simple math activities.

For little ones still learning to write their numbers, this printable from Nurtured Neurons gives them a chance to trace the numbers inside shamrock shapes.

Use shamrocks and numbers to get kids moving with this number line scavenger hunt from No Time for Flashcards. A slightly simpler idea using dice and hunting for shamrocks can be found at Coffee Cups and Crayons. Either of these is a pretty low-prep project to do for one or a couple of children (especially if you already have shamrock shapes on hand).

While you’ve got dice out, find some green things (teddy bear counters, pom poms, buttons, glass counters, or really anything you count, even if it’s not green) and print out and laminate (or put in a plastic sleeve) the clover math mat from The Kindergarten Connection. Roll two numbers and count out the number of each in whatever items you have, write the numbers and add them together.

These printables from Simply Kinder mostly involve basic addition, but there are a couple of subtraction problems in there, too. They feature shamrocks to color and count as well as rainbows with numbers in the clouds. So cute!

Fun Games for Learning has a nice collection of math freebies with a St. Patrick’s Day twist, including dice rolling games, math puzzles, addition, subtraction and multiplication games by grade and more.

Keeping My Kiddo Busy has both math and literacy centers with a holiday theme, which you can get for free by signing up for emails. I spy some sight word printables, rainbow and pot of gold math, writing practice and more.

Johnny Appleseed Day is sometimes celebrated on Sept. 26 because that is John Chapman’s birthday, but even if you’re just doing an apple unit study for fall it’s a great time to talk about Johnny Appleseed.

And that’s the place to start, that Johnny Appleseed was a real person named John Chapman who was born in 1774 in what was then the province of Massachusetts Bay. He traveled west when he turned 18 and despite the image of him randomly tossing apple seeds everywhere, he was really a deliberate planter of apple tree nurseries, which he left in the care of others and checked on every year or two.

Learn a little more of his story with these cute coloring pages (though not entirely historically accurate, they’re still cute) from Homeschool of 1. They also have a Johnny Appleseed themed word search printable.

This pin of a Scholastic News page doesn’t link to a website, but it gives you some basic information and a true and false quiz you can use with kids.

Crystal & Co. has a cute apple themed counting mini book you can print and use with your Johnny Appleseed unit. They also have some coloring pages with a bit of handwriting practice. Or practice cutting with the Johnny Appleseed themed worksheets from 3 Boys and a Dog.

Make a Johnny Appleseed puppet to help tell the story with this craft with a free printable template from Simple Everyday Mom. You’ll also find some cute printable worksheets there to learn his story and put it in the correct order.

Color, cut out and assemble this Johnny Appleseed drawing from Homeschool Preschool. They also have an apple seed counting activity you can use for practicing one to one correspondence.

Tiaras and Tantrums has a free printable apple unit that includes Johnny Appleseed facts and coloring pages, as well as how to say apple in different languages, tracing apple vocabulary, art project ideas, science experiments and more.

And if you need more apple themed activities to go with your Johnny Appleseed celebrations, check out my posts on apple crafts and apple learning activities.

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