47 St. Patrick’s Day Activities, Crafts & Games for Kids

Leprechaun Trap

A leprechaun trap is a fun and adorable activity for kids of all ages on St. Patrick’s Day. There are no limits to what your kids can do, so get your craft supplies out and tell your kids to get decorating. Their trap can be as simple or complicated as they want it to be.

St. Patrick’s Day Fortune Teller

Remember those old fortune teller “cootie cups” from when you were a kid? This game will never go out of style, and you can even give it an update for St. Patrick’s Day. Use a printable template or create your own using decorative paper and green markers or gel pens. Have some fun writing the items and fortunes, and your kids will have just as much fun learning their silly fortune.

St. Patrick’s Day Clothesline Art

Using heart or shamrock shapes, have your kids create a delightful string of St. Patty’s Day clothesline art. Kids can help cut out and decorate the shapes, and then they can help pin the shapes to some string, twine, or yarn. Tape or tie the strings onto a blank canvas for display.

St. Patrick’s Day Necklace

Making festive St. Patrick’s Day necklaces is a fun holiday project that everyone in the family can do together. Turn boring wooden beads into beautiful, brightly colored baubles and add them to a bright green or yellow ribbon. Use several shades of green paint for the wooden beads, or create a rainbow necklace by coloring the beads in all shades of the rainbow.

St. Patty’s Day Topiary

A St. Patty’s Day topiary is a fun activity and a cute decoration for the kids’ room, kitchen table, or mantel. Use several strands of St. Patrick’s Day garland or decorative green ribbon for your topiary, and get creative with your container. A topiary is easy to make but the finished product always looks great.

Follow the Ribbons Game

Create some chaotic fun for the kids with a Follow the Ribbons game. Use rainbow colored ribbons to make long and winding paths throughout the room or even your entire house. Each ribbon is connected to a prize at the end, but your children have to follow the ribbon in order to learn which prize is theirs.

Leprechaun Hat Game

The Leprechaun Hat Game is a fun activity inspired by the traditional memory game. You and your kids can make all the pieces yourselves using felt or craft foam, and then have fun making different funny designs with the individual hat pieces. Make easier designs for little kids, or more difficult ones to challenge the bigger kids.

Lucky Golden Rocks

Kids can create their very own lucky golden rocks. Use some regular rocks and have your kids paint over them with gold paint. They can then paint whatever word or name they want on their gold rock. You can also use stencils to have your kids paint shamrocks on their rocks. These make great display pieces in the kids’ rooms.

Leprechaun Beard

Leprechauns are all about tricks and mischief, so it’s no wonder why kids love them so much. Let your kids enjoy being a leprechaun for a day with an adorable leprechaun beard. All your kids need in order to make their beards is some orange felt and string. With their brand new leprechaun beards in place, your kids will be grinning and laughing all day long.

Don’t Eat Lucky

The “Don’t Eat Lucky” game is a fun St. Patrick’s Day twist on the classic game of “Don’t Eat Pete.” Print out a pre-designed St. Patty’s themed game card for each child. It’s simple to explain and easy to play. Kids will love the game itself, and they’ll also love getting to eat chocolate and candies as part of the game.

Leprechaun Footprints

Tell your kids all about the tricky leprechaun while doing this fun St. Patty’s Day activity. Kids can use their painted hands and index fingers to create tiny leprechaun footprints on pieces of paper. You can decorate your child’s room with the prints, or hide them in various places on St. Patrick’s Day for a leprechaun scavenger hunt.

Shamrock Flashcards

A shamrock flashcards game is a great learning activity for St. Patrick’s Day. It’s both fun and educational, and kids can even get involved with the setup. Have them paint some craft sticks in different colors of the rainbow, and then you can write different words or math problems on each one. The “answers” to the craft stick equations and words should match up with a word or number that you write on a shamrock.

Rainbow Slice and Bake Cookies

Rainbow slice and bake cookies are a fun treat for the kids, and they’re pretty quick and painless to put together. Turn it into a fun activity by having your kids help out with the preparation. They can also help when it’s time to bake the cookies; while you’re slicing the dough up into individual cookie sizes, your child can arrange each cookie on the baking sheet.

Lucky Banner

Create a “Lucky” banner with your kids using cardstock or burlap for the flags and green paint for the letters and clover shapes. First, paint the letters and clovers in green. Once they’re dry, paint over the clovers with glue and have your kids cover the glue with glitter. This is a great project you can then display in your home or in your child’s room.

Shamrock Garland

Arts and crafts are always a fun activity that gets the kids using their minds and their hands to get creative. Make a shamrock garland with the kids and you can hang it up in a doorway or on the mantel when it’s all finished. Use different shades of green paper for the shamrocks, or get creative with decorative paper that your kids can help pick out.

Edible Matching Game

A memory matching game is easy for parents to make and fun for kids to play. And the best part about this one is that you and your kids can enjoy a chocolaty snack when you’re done playing. Cut out a handful of circles in different colors and tape or glue them to the bottoms of some Hershey’s Kisses. The Kisses should all be the same color, and green is the best choice for St. Patty’s Day. Lay the Kisses out in a grid and teach your kids the fun game of memory.

Four Leaf Clover Handprint Art

All your child needs in order to create a masterpiece on St. Patrick’s Day is some paper and green paint. Paint both of your child’s hands, and have him make four handprints on a piece of paper, making a shamrock. For less mess, have your child do one hand at a time and wash the paint off the first hand before painting the second on.

Rainbow Handprint Craft

Let your kids get creative and colorful with a rainbow handprint art project. Color your kids’ hands in the different colors of the rainbow, and have them place their painted hands down on paper. They can then add golden foil wrappers (after eating the chocolates they came from, of course) and a black pot that’s cut out of construction paper, making an end-of-the-rainbow treasure.

Shamrock Sprouts

The shamrock sprout activity is great for kids because it’s a chance to have some fun while learning about how plants grow and how to take care of them. Use a household sponge (green is best for St. Patrick’s Day, of course) and cut it into a shamrock shape. Soak it and then add some seeds to the top. Place the sponge in a sunny window and have the kids mist them with water as needed. Soon, the seeds will sprout, and your child will delight in caring for the sprouts as they grow.

Rainbow Nesting Boxes

Do-it-yourself rainbow nesting boxes are a fun project for kids to make on St. Patrick’s Day, and they can proudly display their creations once they’re finished. Print out the rainbow box templates and let your kids have fun decorating them while the boxes are flat. You can help the kids with the folding and gluing, and then have your kids fill them up with their favorite candies and trinkets.

Catch the Fairy Gold

A variant of the old “ball in a cup” game, this Catch the Fairy Gold game is a fun activity for kids to make and play with. Use the leprechaun face printout template, and have each kid color or paint it to his or her liking. Parents can help cut it out and put the pieces together, and then the kids can have fun playing their new handmade games.

Handprint Leprechauns

A handprint leprechaun is a great activity for kids because it lets them get their hands dirty. Paint each child’s palm peach or flesh-colored, with orange at the bottom of the palm and on the fingers (minus the thumb). Kids can then put their handprint down on a piece of paper. The paint will dry while you help the kids wash their hands, and then kids can add a hat and smile to their leprechaun handprint.

Paperclip Necklace

Making a paperclip necklace is a great activity for kids to do together. You’ll need some green decorative paper, scissors, glue, and paperclips. Any kind of paperclips will do, but to make it more kid-friendly, you can use the big, colorful plastic ones. Pick out all the green paperclips you can find, and let the kids have fun making the paperclips into “beads” with decorative paper.

Shamrock Scavenger Hunt

Put together a fun-filled scavenger hunt for the kids this St. Patrick’s Day. You can have the kids help out with making the final prize, or you can make it a complete surprise. Either way, it’ll make them eager and excited to get started on the hunt. Kids can definitely help with making some fun shamrock shapes. Mom, Dad, or Teacher can then write clues on the back of each one and spread them around the yard or classroom.

Lucky Clover Field

For a fun St. Patrick’s Day activity, create a lucky clover field with your kids or students. Kids can create their own clover to add to the “garden,” which is a piece of floral Styrofoam that’s trimmed to fit inside a decorative box or other container. You can then have your kids make a festive banner to adorn the front of the box.

Rainbow Ice Cubes

Making ice cubes is always a fun activity for kids, and it’s a great opportunity for parents to teach them about the science of water turning into ice. Making rainbow ice cubes is also a great way to tell your kids all about St. Patrick’s Day. Use food coloring to make rainbow colored ice cubes, and once the water has frozen, kids can use the ice cubes in their favorite drink.

Ring Toss Game

Ring toss is a fun and energetic game that’s easy for kids to learn and play. You can buy a ring toss game, or you can get the kids together to make one yourself. Make a St. Patrick’s Day themed ring toss game with a paper towel tube, some recycled Styrofoam cup rings, green ribbons, and green paint.

Wee Little Shamrock Men

These cute wee shamrock men add some personality to your kids’ room or classroom. Let your kids get creative with painting and decorating the toilet paper rolls, which make up the body of each shamrock man. Kids can also have some fun adding little arms to the body, and googly eyes to the shamrock heads.

Rainbow Friendship Bracelet

Gather some skeins of yarn in the different colors of the rainbow, and then gather the kids for a fun St. Patty’s Day activity. Rainbow friendship bracelets are great for both boys and girls, making this a perfect activity for families and classrooms. Kids can get creative with different braiding patterns and bead combinations. Yarn is perfect for littler fingers, but you can use thinner thread if your kids are older.

Lucky Hat

Craft projects are always a fun activity for kids to do around the holiday. With some cardstock and decorative paper, kids can make their very own lucky hats to wear on St. Patrick’s Day. The activity can be as structured or as free-form as you want it to be, since there’s plenty of room for creativity with the decorations.

Lucky Bingo

Everyone loves an exciting game of Bingo. It’s lots of fun and it’s easy to learn if your kids haven’t played it yet. Print out some St. Patty’s Day themed Bingo cards for each of your children or students, and have them use chocolate coins, candies, or other trinkets as markers. Put together a fun prize for the winner, and your kids will have a blast.

St. Patrick’s Day Treasure Hunt

Send your kids on an exciting treasure hunt for St. Patrick’s Day. Use a batch of colorful shamrock print-outs to hide around your house, yard, or classroom. Place the cards around so that the kids will find them in order. At the end of the “rainbow,” the precious treasure awaits.