St. Patrick's Day Activities for Preschool
By LAURIN BRAINARD Updated Jan. 16, 2025
Are your children excited to catch that pesky leprechaun this year? Get ready to make memories with your little ones this St. Patrick’s Day by planning a day filled with learning all centered around leprechauns, rainbows, pots of gold, and more!
Build a Leprechaun Trap with Preschoolers
My favorite way to kick off St. Patrick’s Day with preschoolers is through a hands-on sensory bin! Work on building a rainbow, a rainbow road to a pot of gold, and throw in some pesky leprechauns and coins for extra fun! Your children can create imaginary play scenarios as they dig into this sensory bin! Here are a few materials you may want to use:
- pom pom balls
- beans
- gold coins
- magnets
- playdough
- leprechaun printables from this unit
- the sky is the limit here!
St. Patrick’s Day Fine Motor Skills for Preschoolers
Fine motor skills are so important for our preschoolers, so don’t let St. Patrick’s Day go by without some hands-on fine motor practice!
Read this post if you want to learn more about fine motor skills: What are fine motor skills?
Lacing Cards
Lacing cards are a great tool for building hand control as children thread a lace through each hole of the card. To prepare these lacing cards, cut out each picture. Then, laminate and leave a small edge of lamination around each picture. Hole punch each dot and they will be ready for lots of hands to practice lacing!
Math Activities for Preschoolers
Our first math activity of the day is a color by shape page. You can use this activity to work on shapes, then watch as your littles find the shape on each page!
Since our littles finish activities at different times, I love to use this math puzzle for fast finishers.
If you are completing these activities at home with your own children, then you can work through each activity at your child’s pace. It’s also fun to group up with a few other homeschool families for St. Patrick’s day, too!
Alphabet Activities for Preschoolers
I always love finding ways to practice the alphabet in fun and new ways. So, I created these two piece puzzles that are perfect for preschoolers! As your child matches the uppercase and lowercase letters, they will complete each puzzle.
St. Patrick’s Day Craft for Preschoolers
I love incorporating crafts into all of our learning themes! To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, preschoolers will use a q-tip to dot each dot.
To add an extra learning component, make sure to review color names as you pass out the materials. You can also have your littles work on creating patterns using the dots of paint.
Grab Your Plans and Printables
I hope you are as excited as I am to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year! You can download all the printables in this post in my St. Patrick’s Day Preschool Activities from my shop. It comes with 10+ lesson plans and all the St. Patrick’s Day themed printable materials you will need to make teaching your preschoolers as easy as possible.
If you are looking for even more preschool fun for you and your little ones, then check out my Preschool Curriculum Bundle for a variety of fun lessons and activities you can use all year long!
I hope you enjoy playing and learning with your little ones this week! Feel free to send me an Insta message at @theprimarybrain if you have any questions about how to get started teaching your little ones!
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Written on February 18th, 2025 by Laurin Brainard