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

March 7, 2017 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Kid's activities for St. Patrick's Day.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!

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Cat Themed Learning Activities

I recently shared a bunch of dog-themed learning activities in honor of National Pet Month. Now it’s time for the cats (which are actually my favorite, shoutout to Baron and Haru!).

Homemade Heather has a great set of cat activity printable sheets including the life cycle of a cat, parts of a cat, a page kids can fill out about their cat and a little reading comprehension with a cat theme.

World of Printables has a super cute cat coloring page that asks you to color cats of different shapes in different colors and then count them. Like an I Spy, but with cats!

Speaking of shapes, give kids practice tracing basic shapes and writing the words for them (square, circle, oval, triangle, diamond, etc. there are 12 shapes in all) with these cat-themed printables from Tot Schooling. These would be good to laminate so you can use over and over while kids are learning about shapes.

Royal Baloo has a great printable cat pack that includes activities for toddlers up to third grade, so this is perfect if you’re homeschooling kids of different ages. There’s literacy and math activities in this pack, including shape tracing and matching for the little ones, beginning sounds and skip counting for pre-k kiddos and addition, multiplication, writing pages and more for older kids.

Fluffy Tots has a cute printable emergent reader on a cat theme, and Sunny Day Family has a super cute cat matching memory game you can print. Build a cat with the printable from PJs and Paint, or cut and fold a stretching cat with this activity from Krokotak.

1 Plus 1 Plus 1 Equals 1 has a cat unit study and printables for kids who are learning cursive writing. There are also three part cards about cats, a printable on scientific classification of cats and more.

Your Therapy Source shared this cute motor skill idea of using pipe cleaners as cat whiskers, which makes a fun quiet time activity or something kids can use in the car.

Take your love of cats on the go with this printable cat activity placemat from The Art Kit Blog. It includes a word search, maze, word scramble and some cats to color, tic tac toe boards and more.

Older kids can learn how to build Lego cats with these instructions from Frugal Fun for Boys and Girls.

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