St. Patrick’s Day Activities Your Kids are Sure to Love

There are so many holiday-themed activities out there for kids that it can get a little overwhelming. Sometimes when I collect links I come back with tons of them, and I’m not sure that’s super helpful. I’d love to know if you prefer large or small activity roundups, if you’d like more STEM or more educational activities and for what age levels. You are why I’m here!

In the meantime, here’s a little collection of fun activities you might want to do at home or with a small group of kids for St. Patrick’s Day. Enjoy!

Building a leprechaun trap is a fun crafty activity that is easy to turn into a STEM activity by presenting kids with a collection of items with which to make a trap. You can do it with LEGOs, recycled materials, an old shoebox, really whatever you have on hand. Homeschool Preschool has a huge collection of ideas to get your brain going. She has printables, book lists and other great St. Patrick’s Day stuff, too.

Instead of a trap, you might want to build a graham cracker leprechaun house instead. It’s just like a gingerbread house, just with green icing. Adventures of Mel has a tutorial with all the details.

Another fun STEM idea comes from Joy in the Works, who made a homemade catapault game where Lucky Charms are launched into little pots. This one looks like a lot of fun!

And what’s St. Patrick’s Day without some rainbows? The Pinterested Parent has some great ideas for making your own rainbows and then painting them (sort of like you might draw a shadow). So clever!

If you have older kids, you’ll want to try this technique for making perfect rainbow tie-dye from Crafty Chica. It looks amazing and so much fun.

Do you do any special activities for St. Patrick’s Day? I’d love to hear about them!

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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