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.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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