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.

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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