St. Patrick's Day Ideas for Preschool

Last Updated on April 28, 2020 by Sheryl Cooper

It’s all about the color green with our favorite St. Patrick’s Day ideas for preschool.

During the month of March our feature color is green, so we do a lot of yellow and blue color mixing activities.

The shamrock shape is used often, too, and not just at the art table, but also the light table, play dough table, mixed in with dramatic play, on our science shelf — pretty much evenly spread around the classroom!

I thought I’d share some of our past favorite St. Patrick’s day ideas that work well for preschoolers, as well as a round-up of activities from my fellow-bloggers.

Enjoy!

St. Patrick’s Day Ideas for Preschool

Watercolor Shamrocks

What happens when you drop yellow and blue watercolors onto shamrock-shaped paper? This is a fun lesson on color mixing!

See more here: St. Patrick’s Day Watercolor Shamrocks

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin

Lots of filling and pouring in this fun sensory bin! Add treasure chests and gold coins, too!

See more here: St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin

Painting Shamrocks with Brayers

Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds: Simple and fun hands-on activities for toddlers and preschoolers for St. Patrick's Day!

Brayers are one of our favorite tools for applying paint. They allow young children to move their entire arm, even moving the shoulder. They are also great for those who might not feel comfortable using a paint brush.

St. Patrick’s Day at the Play Dough Table

We use our favorite play dough recipe and tint it green. We then add lots of green objects to use with the play dough. Either hit the dollar store before the holiday, or find it on clearance afterwards and save it for next year.

St. Patrick’s Day Collages

We love group collages because they allow the preschoolers to work together. In this activity, we tinted white glue green and filled trays with various green objects. The objects are then glued onto paper.

Drip Painting

If you’ve read my blog for awhile, you know how we love to work on a vertical surface for some extra fine motor work. We love using our acrylic page holders as personal easels for activities such as this. Place the paper in the sign holder and have the preschoolers squirt paint onto it using pipettes.

Spin Art

The salad spinner comes back out for this fun shamrock painting activity, just like when we made spin art hearts. This is the very same technique, just using shamrocks instead of hearts.

And then, glitter!

Here are even more St. Patrick’s day from my fellow bloggers:

St. Patrick’s Day Paper Plate Pot-of-Gold (Fun Crafts Kids)
Five Little Shamrocks Craft and Song (JDaniel4sMom)
Shamrock Wand (Crafty Morning)
St. Patrick’s Day Lime Play Dough (Plain Vanilla Mom)
Pot of Gold Cookies (A Sparkle of Genius)
Shamrock Foam Dough (Crayon Box Chronicles)

St. Patrick’s Day Activities to Pin

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Comments

Sara Mullett

February 27, 2014 at 10:58 am

Thanks so much for including our Leprechaun Songs Sheryl! Love the spin art idea – so much fun!!
- Sheryl Cooper
  
  February 27, 2014 at 10:38 pm
  
  I always love your songs, Sara!
Thaleia

March 7, 2014 at 11:13 pm

Wow, those are messy activities! I would love to see more teachers like you in my area! I thought I was a crazy mommy that lets my kids paint at 6-8mths! Thanks so much for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Blog Hop!
Jill

March 10, 2014 at 12:32 pm

Marble painting looks wonderfully fun and messy!
Thank you for stopping by the Thoughtful Spot Weekly Blog Hop this week. We hope to see you drop by our neck of the woods next week!
Heather

February 9, 2015 at 1:14 am

Thank you so much for including our shamrock foam dough Sheryl! 🙂
- Sheryl
  
  February 10, 2015 at 8:58 pm
  
  You are quite welcome, Heather!