St. Patrick’s Day STEM Activities

Teachers are always looking for ways to infuse a little more fun into learning, and St. Patrick’s Day gives us a great opportunity to do that, with clover, leprechauns, and everything green. And there are so many fun STEM learning activities that can be done around St. Patrick’s Day, from some of your classic STEM projects with a St. Patrick’s Day twist to building leprechaun traps.

Those posts will give you plenty of ideas for St. Patrick’s Day themed projects you can do in the classroom or at home, but I wanted to add a few more for the season.

Carly & Adam have a few low-prep STEM challenges you can try, including building a bridge out of coins, a leprechaun tower and a rainbow bridge.

Science Demo Guy has a set of printable task cards for STEM challenges available at Teachers Pay Teachers, which were meant for distance learning because they’re activities you can do with minimal materials. For all six activities all you need are construction paper, paper cups, straws, craft sticks and yarn, as well as scissors, tape and glue. Check out the blog post to see all the activities and how to set some of them up.

Do some St. Patrick’s Day coding without a computer to draw the images on these free printables from Mama Teaches. The codes make a rainbow, leprechaun hat and shamrock design, and you can get them on her freebies page when you sign up to receive emails.

Teach Student Savvy also has a collection of STEM challenges with a St. Patrick’s Day twist, but the one that caught my eye was this fun and colorful rainbow run, which is easy to make with cardboard and construction paper. You can get inspired by the blog post and if you want the full lessons with printables on simple machines, instructions for kids to follow, places to record observations and more, you can get the whole activity pack at Teachers Pay Teachers.

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Leprechaun Learning Activities

Shark Week generally happens in July, but any time is a good time to learn more about sharks.

First, start with some fun whale facts like these from Kids Craft Room. Here I learned about the dwarf lantern shark, which is the smallest shark and only grows to about 6-8 inches (about 15-20 cm) long. It also emits light. How cool is that?

Natural Beach Living has some great printable shark information guides, where kids can learn about different kinds of sharks, match the facts to the pictures, or print out doubles and do a shark memory game.

Living Life an Learning has some great shark activity pages including the parts of a shark, types of sharks, a crossword puzzle and more. Also check out their parts of a shark and word scramble download, and a life cycle worksheet.

Learn about how sharks float with this great activity from JDaniel4’s Mom.

Need more facts about sharks? This fact pact from The WOLFe PACK on Teacher Pay Teachers includes fact sheets, a printable flip book, informational text, vocabulary, comprehension questions and more.

Living Montessori Now has a great collection of shark themed activities with a Montessori inspired twist. You’ll find a shark roll and cover, shark phonics and lots more shark activities Deb has collected from all over the Internet.

Remember the “Sharknado” movie? A Few Shortcuts turned the combination of sharks and tornadoes into a fun science activity. You’ll need a bottle connector for this project but otherwise should have everything you need on hand. Use their template to make your sharks out of aluminum foil. So fun!

You can also do some shark themed coloring with these coloring pages from Encouraging Moms at Home. Or make a cool 3D shark with this template from korkotak. And there are tons of different shark crafts collected in this post from Kids Activities Blog.

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