St. Patrick’s Day theme activities for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten

St. Patrick’s Day Books

St. Patrick’s Day Books for Preschool

St. Patrick’s Day Hot Potato Game

This super fun hot potato game is always a huge hit at the St. Patrick’s Day party! To make the pot I spray painted an individual cereal container black and stapled colorful pipe cleaners to the container to make the handle. Cover the staples with tape. To play, seat your students in a circle and fill a pot with chocolate gold coins. Next, play some Irish music and have the children pass the pot around the circle as the music plays. Pause the music and the child who is holding the pot gets to take out a chocolate coin; keep playing until each child has a gold coin.

St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Activities

St. Patrick’s Day Syllable Activity

Students will identify the number of syllables in each picture. This activity includes a black and white recording sheet and is available in the St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Beginning Sounds Activity

Students will identify the beginning sound of each picture and attach a clothespin with the correct letter to the corresponding picture. There is also a black and white recording sheet included with this activity. The beginning sounds activity is available in the St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Packet in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Rhyming Activity

Students finding the rhyming pairs using pot of gold mats and coins. This activity is available in the St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Vocabulary Word Cards

Place the printable word cards in a pocket chart or on a word wall. These cards can be used to help develop vocabulary and can be found in the St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Packet in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Alphabet Identification Game

This activity includes both upper and lower case versions in black and white or color. Students will take turns drawing a card, identifying the letter, and marking it on their recording sheet. This activity also includes two recording sheets, one for uppercase letters and one for lowercase letters and is available in the St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Printable Emergent Reader

The predictable text in this book is designed to support your emergent readers. Use this book to reinforce concepts of print such as words are separated by spaces, left to right and top to bottom, written words match spoken words, common sight words, and more. This easy to assemble emergent reader is offered in both black and white and color in the St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Packet located in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Pocket Chart Sentences

The predictable text in this pocket chart set will help your students learn concepts of print such as left to right directionality, return sweep, one-to-one correspondence, and more. The printable pocket chart sentences are available in the St. Patrick’s Day Literacy Packet in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Math Activities

Printable Pot O’ Gold Counting Book

This easy to assemble counting book is included in the St. Patrick’s Day Math packet. The printable counting book provides practice counting and writing the numbers 1-5. Find the pot of gold counting book in the St. Patrick’s Day Math packet located in the printables section below.

Leprechaun Races

Help your students develop number sense with this game that will reinforce one-to-one correspondence. The leprechaun races printable game is available in the St. Patrick’s Day Math packet located in the printables section below.

Non-Standard Shamrock Measurement

Your students will have tons of fun measuring things around the classroom using shamrocks as a non-standard unit of measurement. This activity includes a black and white recording sheet and is available in the St. Patrick’s Day Math packet located in the printables section below.

Printable St. Patrick’s Day Grid Game

Help young children build number sense with this fun, printable St. Patrick’s Day grid game. This game is available in the Building Number Sense with Grid Games packet.

Pot O’ Gold Play Dough Counting Mats

Provide your students with practice developing their fine motor skills, numeral identification, and one-to-one correspondence. These printable play dough mats can be found in the St. Patrick’s Day math packed located in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Number Sense Activity

Students will identify the numerals on the pots and match the gold coins with the corresponding quantities. This game is available in the St. Patrick’s Day Math Packet located in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Number Identification Game

This game is available {in black and white or color} in the St. Patrick’s Day Math Packet located in the printables section below. The Number Identification game can be played using numbers 1-10 or numbers 1-20 depending on your student’s ability levels. The playing cards are available in black and white and color for your convenience. Also included are two printable recording sheets in black and white, one for each version of the game.

St. Patrick’s Day Graphing

Provide your students with this fun data collection activity! Students will enjoy rolling the cube and recording their rolls on the recording sheet. This printable activity is available in the St. Patrick’s Day Math Packet located in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Patterning

Help your students develop logical thought and reasoning skills with this patterning activity available in the St. Patrick’s Day Math Packet in the printables section below.

St. Patrick’s Day Board Game

Can you help the leprechaun get to the pot of gold? This printable board game is located in the St. Patrick’s Day Math Packet below.

Pot O’ Gold 1:1 Game

Learn how to play this fun math game on the blog HERE.

Hunting for Gold Number Activity

Learn how to play this fun math game on the blog HERE.

Pot of Gold Counting Game

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