St. Patrick’s Day Preschool Activities

St. Patrick’s Day is a magical time in the preschool classroom! It is the perfect opportunity to combine fun, hands-on activities with meaningful learning.

Green Color Mixing Painting Activity

St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect time to explore the color green in your preschool classroom! A simple green color mixing painting activity helps children learn about colors while strengthening fine motor skills and creativity.

Add blue, yellow, white, black, and different shades of green to a palette, and let your students mix and paint the shamrocks. This hands-on activity is easy to set up and always a favorite.

Grab the printout of the shamrock templates here. 

Shamrock Printing

This is an easy art project to set up.  Use shamrock cookie cutters and green paint with a little glue mixed in to make the prints. Add glitter, of course!   We made these windsocks out of our art!

Shamrock Marble Painting

Grab a box, add a piece of white paper, and add some marbles! Give your students green and white paint to roll the marbles through. Cut out the paintings into shamrocks!

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Activity

This sensory table had white beans, which are dyed green, plastic coins, scoopers, and pots. 

To dye the white beans, place the beans in a zip-top bag and add various shades of green acrylic paint. Air-dry them on paper towels placed on cookie sheets.

St. Patrick’s Day Name Activity

Combine name practice, fine motor skills, and cutting practice into one fun activity. This Shamrock Name and Scissor Activity is simple to prepare and will give your students meaningful practice with their names while strengthening important early learning skills. Grab the editable templates here in my TPT store!

St. Patrick’s Day Stem Activity

For a fun STEM project, layer dish soap, green watercolor, and baking soda in the black pots.  Give your students the jars of vinegar and pipettes and let them go to town.

St. Patrick’s Day Beginning Sounds Reader

If you are looking for a simple way to add some literacy practice to your St. Patrick’s Day activities, this Beginning Sounds Reader is a great option for your students. Just print, staple, and your students will have their own little book to color and practice letter recognition and sounds. Perfect for small group time and literacy centers. Download the activity here!

St. Patrick’s Day Math Activity

For a math activity, make rainbow number chains! Your students will practice tracing numbers and glue them in order to create a colorful number chain.

This simple hands-on activity is a great way for preschoolers to build number recognition and practice number order while strengthening fine motor skills. If you would like to use this activity in your classroom, you can find the Rainbow Number Chains in my TPT store.

St. Patrick’s Day Perfect Read Aloud

How to Catch a Leprechaun is by far our favorite St. Patrick’s Day book!

Rainbow projects go really well with St. Patrick’s Day projects.  Here are some really fun ideas!