St. Patrick’s day is right around the corner. As I rush around for all things green (hey I don’t like to get pinched haha), I also have been gathering up fun and educational craft activities for my kids. These two St. Patrick’s Day activities below are perfect for your little one who is learning both colors and numbers as well as matching and hand-eye coordination.
Think Green, Think Clovers, Think St. Patrick’s Day.
I have 3 kids: 18 months, 5 years and 6 years. I wanted find activities that would best suit each child depending on their learning capabilities. The first activity I thought of involved clover leaves. You can’t talk about St. Patrick’s Day without mentioning four leaf clovers. In this activity, you or your child (if capable) will cut out small heart from green construction paper. 10-12 hearts will be plenty. You will next either sketch out the clovers, or print out my Clover Leaf Activity!
Your child will practice placing each heart aka clover leaf onto the outlined leaf on the paper. This simple task was perfect for my youngest child. Now to take it up a notch for my older children. I added in an adding and subtraction component to the clover leaf activity by having my older two kids subtract or add leaves depending on what number I gave them. We used the clover leaves and outline sheet as a visual aid.
Items Needed:
- green construction paper
- white paper with outlined clovers-1 with 4 leaves, 1 with 3 leaves, 1 with 2 leaves, and 1 with 1 leaf-Clover Leaf Activity
- scissors
Over the Rainbow.
Not only can you not have clovers on St. Patrick’s Day, but you must have some sort of rainbow activity. The pot of gold is hopefully there, right?! This next activity is similar to the clover activity in that it can be modified depending on age. For this activity, all you need to do is cut out a cloud shape from white construction paper, or print out my Rainbow Cloud Activity Printout!
Once you have your cloud cutout, you will make your rainbow strips. To do this, you will cut a strip from red construction paper, a strip from orange construction paper, a strip from yellow construction paper, a strip from green construction paper, and a strip from purple construction. Now take the stripes and glue them to the bottom of the cloud.
With a marker, pencil, or crayon, write either numbers 1-5 on each strip. Have your older children count the strips. If your child is capable, you can have them write the numbers on each strip of the rainbow. Another learning activity for the rainbow is practicing naming colors. I wrote the color name on each strip and had my older 2 children read them to me. I read the colors allowed to my 18 month old 🙂
Items Needed:
- White construction paper for cloud cutout out (or PRINT Rainbow Cloud Activity Printout)
- Red, Orange, Yellow, Green and Purple construction paper
- scissors
- glue
- writing utensil: pencil, pen, sharpie, marker, crayon-your choice
I hope you find these activities as much fun as we did and don’t forget to wear your green!
Check out this other fun rainbow craft! https://thesoutherlymagnolia.com/easy-rainbow-craft-perfect-for-small-hands/
I will definitely be using your ideas!
My son loves that he can tell me the colors in rainbow order, and my daughters are just now learning their colors. This rainbow activity looks like fun for the whole group!
These are so cute, and the clover activity would make for really cute homemade cards. I love doing seasonal crafts with the kids!
Thank you! Seasonal crafts or so much fun!
These are so cute! Love educational holiday craft ideas!!!! I’m definitely going to make the adorable rainbows with my littles.
These make me so excited for when my little guy grows up and can enjoy this sort of stuff 🙂 Can’t wait!
Those cute little clovers will sure bring lots of luck in your lovely home!
Thank you! I sure hope so 🙂
Love these activities!! My daughter is working on colors now!
Thank you! 🙂
Great ideas! Love that you took one idea and made it suitable for each of your kids! The addition and subtraction is a great idea! – Jennifer | https://maunelegacy.com
Thank you! It saves time being about to make it suitable for all my kids!
So cute!! I used to be a toddler teacher and I loved coming up with new activities for my students.
Thank you!
These look so cool! This will make a great project for us to try since it’s been raining for the last few days!
Thank you! Definitely a great activity for rainy days!
My three girls are your kids’ age. They are 6, 5, and almost 2 (turns two in April). Great ideas to use the clovers and rainbow and make it educational. Looks like lots of fun for kids.
How neat that our kids are around the same age!
These are so fun and would be perfect to do for a homeschooling activity, thank you so much!
Thank you!