St. Patrick's Day Activities & Crafts
Help your lucky little leprechaun celebrate St. Patty's Day with fun crafts, food and activities this year. Whether you're having a party, watching a parade or just celebrating at home with your family. Start by "wearing the green" clothing, pins, hats, whatever you have handy. Tint your lemonade green. Make some shamrock cookies. And gather the brood to make some fun St. Patty's Day crafts. Does this Spark an idea?
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Get in the Spirit
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Wear green with handmade pins or a hat. Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Make a St. Patrick's Day hat out of green craft foam you shape to look like a top hat. Or cut a shamrock shape out of green craft foam, add glitter and wear as a pendant or pin.
Help the kids make a cute leprechaun trap out of a recycled oatmeal box decorated to look like a tall leprechaun hat.
Let kids learn their colors by making colorful rainbows. Give the kids some construction paper, glue and Fruit Loops, then let them sort the colors and make a rainbow to hang on the wall.
Games
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Transform regular Bingo into a St. Patty's Day-themed affair. Everyone loves Bingo, but St. Patty's Bingo is even more fun. Just change the letters B-I-N-G-O to L-U-C-K-Y by taping over them for St. Patty's and you can remove the letters later.
If it's a party you're a-plannin' and you like trivia, make up your own St. Patty's trivia game to see how much folks really know about St. Patrick's Day, leprechauns and Ireland.
And what party isn't complete without an Irish jig contest? Have an impartial person judge while everyone does their best interpretation. This one garners lots of laughs and fun for all.
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St. Patrick's Crafts
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Make a shamrock garland to add to your St. Patrick's decor. Decorate your home with homemade leprechauns, rainbows, pots of gold, shamrock garlands and all things St. Patrick's Day. Cut the center out of a paper plate and glue green construction paper shamrocks all over it to make a wreath. Loop green paper strips together to form a paper chain garland. Embellish with paper shamrocks or St. Patty's Day stickers.
Paper Crafts and Activities
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Give the kids printable activities to keep them busy. Lots of websites have printable coloring pages and activities for St. Patrick's Day. Worksheets teach as well as entertain kids while the grownups visit with one another. Give the kids some St. Patrick's word search sheets, find the match pages, coloring pages and crayons and let them have fun.
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