Celebrate the Irish heritage and history this St. Patrick’s Day with your classroom students, home school students, or even family and friends. Below you will find plenty of free lesson plans, coloring pages, games & activities, crafts, limericks lyrics, history to research, and much more – all on Ireland and their wondrous St. Patty’s Day celebration. There are enough free items on the list to keep adults and children alike busy for the whole day, probably longer. This article is designed around all ages. While all items included will be safe for all viewers, some may be too advanced for smaller children.
Free Research Pages On Ireland History
For an extensive history lesson on Ireland, visit Irelandseye.com. From important events in history, to Irish ghosts, to people, places, music, and more, find out all about Ireland. If you haven’t yet learned about it, you can also learn about the Blarney Stone. There are even plenty of free Irish recipes listed here.
Free Research Pages On St. Patrick’s Day History
For an interactive history lesson an the history of St. Patrick’s Day, History.com has you covered. Click here for their free interactive tour of the holiday including videos, recipes, a quiz, and more. This lesson is more suited to older children and adults. However, younger children might like to watch and listen.
Free St. Patrick’s Day Lesson Plans
For toddlers and preschoolers, click here to read “G is for Green: St. Patrick’s Day Lesson Plans For Preschoolers” by Lisa Carey.
For a wide selection of lesson plans, AtoZ TeacherStuff is the place to visit. From leprechauns to clovers/shamrocks, to rainbows, and other Ireland topics and facts, they have a variety of lesson plans to fit your needs. Click Here to print a lesson plan (or 3 or 4) for your children or students.
Free St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Pages
From leprechauns, to rainbows, to pots of gold and four-leaf clovers, find some free Irish coloring pages from Coloring.ws. Click here for their St. Patrick’s day collection.
For more coloring fun, visit Kaboose.com, ColoringBookShop.com, and PrimaryGames.com.
Free Irish Limericks Lyrics
For 40 good, clean, fun limericks, as well as the definition and origin of the Irish limerick, click here to visit Brownielocks.com.
If you or someone you know is a guitar player, azchords.com has a large collection of sheet music chords for Irish limericks. Click here for those.
Free St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
Enchanted Learning has a variety of fun crafts for children to do on St. Patrick’s Day. From a blarney stone, to a rainbow streamer, to a pot of gold, to a leprechaun marionette, and more, Enchanted Learning has wonderful craft ideas for the kids. Click here for their St. Patty’s Day craft page.
Free St. Patrick’s Day Games & Activities
Children are active by nature. So, don’t forget to get them into some active and hands-on fun on St. Patrick’s Day. These could be fun for the adults as well. Some of these games and activities will need to be made ahead of time. Some will be printable activities or paper activities. Others may require no materials or a simple prop.
Pot Of Gold Game Instructions:Click Here
Printable St. Patrick’s Day Bingo Game:Click Here
Printable St. Patrick’s Day Bookmarks:Click Here
Leprechaun Relay Race:Click Here
St. Paddy’s Day Scavenger Hunt:Click Here
St. Patrick’s Day Anagram Worksheets:Click Here
St, Patrick’s Day Printable Dominoes Game:Click Here
Free St. Patrick’s Day Recipes
Many Content producers at AC have provided us with some wonderful green, Irish, and St. Patrick’s Day recipes. Here are some of those.
A Green Menu for St. Patrick’s Day by Kelly Herdrich – Kelly mixes up some traditional favorites and makes them St. Patty’s Day friendly by adding the color of green. Click Here to enjoy.
A Irish Twist On A Delicious Dish by 3lilangels – 3lilangels gives a great recipe with corned beef chicken as the main dish. Click here to enjoy.
Easy St. Patrick’s Day Recipes by Rebecca Livermore – Rebecca gives instructions for a variety of great recipes. Click Here to enjoy.
Leprechaun Milkshake by decker – If you like milkshakes and St. Patty’s Day, you’ll love Decker’s Leprechaun Milkshake. Click here to enjoy.
Be sure to search AC for even more great recipes.
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