St. Patrick’s Day Math Activities

I have written a lot of St. Patrick’s Day posts over the years (see for example, St. Patrick’s Day STEM, leprechaun traps, class party games, shamrock learning activities and printables, just to name a few) but it looks like I’ve never done a St. Patrick’s Day math post, or it’s been long enough that I have no memory of it.

Adding holiday content to your everyday learning is lots of fun and there are a lot of ways to add shamrocks, leprechauns and pots of gold to your math activities in the classroom.

Worksheets for Preschoolers has a simple count and circle the number coloring sheet for kiddos learning to count and match the count to the numeral. Made by Teachers has a free (login required) math worksheet with one number listed that asks kids to write the number that comes before and after. Kindergarten Worksheets and Games has a couple of hundreds chart coloring sheets.

Older kids can practice multiplication facts and color in shamrocks and other St. Patrick’s Day symbols with these printables from The Curriculum Corner. XOXO Erin Smith has similar color by division sheets.

Your Schoolhouse has a variety of St. Patrick’s Day learning printables including on where symbols are used for math problems so kids can figure out what the symbols stand for and one with shapes on a coordinate grid.

If you’re OK with using food in the classroom, these activities from Homeschool Preschool use Lucky Charms cereal for sorting, counting and graphing projects.

There’s a fun looking project on area and perimeter with a St. Patrick’s Day twist at Ashleigh’s Education Journey. If you scroll down in the post you can see it, but I can find the printable shown in her Teachers Pay Teachers store. Still, you could do something similar by having the kids design a leprechaun town either by telling them what they need to include and how big each place needs to be or letting them design and then having them figure out the area from there.

Did you know that October is Squirrel Awareness Month? I didn’t know we needed more awareness of these little creatures, but let’s take it as a sign to learn more about squirrels!

Let’s start with some fun facts via Kids Konnect: did you know there are five subfamilies and more that 280 species of squirrels? The smallest are pygmy squirrels and the largest, the Bhutan giant flying squirrel, can be longer that 4 feet (1.2 meters).

Tree squirrels can climb down trees so fast because their ankles can rotate 180 degrees, allowing them to grab the tree bark as they go down. While most squirrels don’t survive their first year of life, they can live five to 10 years in the wild and squirrels have been known to live up to 20 years in captivity!

Rhythms of Play has more fun facts and tips for observing squirrels if you want to add some real life nature to your nature study.

We always like to start these collections with life cycle and parts of the animal printables, so let’s grab the squirrel life cycle an parts of a squirrel worksheets from Montessori Nature. (It doesn’t look like these are free any more but they have a whole unit study on squirrels you can buy that includes life cycle and parts activities, characteristics of different kinds of squirrels, a printable poster, information about predators and more.)

Grab the squirrel lapbook printable (free with email address) from Homeschool Share to learn the parts of a squirrel, where they live, what they eat, whether they hibernate and more. There’s also a nut taste test printable, a place for making observations about squirrels, life cycle of an oak tree, games and more.

Simple Everyday Mom has some cute squirrel themed worksheets including tracing the letter s, labeling the parts of a squirrel and a letter s maze. She also has more activity pages with a squirrel theme, including matching, a more traditional maze and a counting and graphing activity.

Work on letter recognition with this squirrel and acorn game printable from Teaching Mama. I love the idea of hiding the letters in a fall themed sensory bin for kids to find, identify and match to the letter on the worksheet.

For older kids you can do this “if I were a squirrel” writing prompt from Lesson Planet.

And throw in a little counting with these squirrel and acorn tens frame printables from JDaniel4’s Mom, which you can use to count real acorns or any other little fall themed thing you have handy.

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