10 Magical St. Patrick's Day Ideas for Teaching in March
Say goodbye to winter and hello to spring! It’s hard to ignore the magic that is in the air this time of year.
Let’s bring that magic into the classroom with the charm and excitement of St. Patrick’s Day.
Keep reading to make March truly magical for you and your students!
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St. Patrick's Day Decorations
You can also grab some table cloths to decorate any tables.
Give your students a chance to decorate a Leprechaun and hang on your classroom door.
There are so many things you can do to decorate the classroom. Be creative and involve your students!
Practice measurement word problem skills with these St. Patrick’s Day themed task cards. These task cards feature a variety of engaging scenarios for students.
Each task card presents students with a unique measurement challenge designed to reinforce essential math skills while incorporating fun and festive elements of the holiday. Think Leprechauns and rainbows.
Green-themed Day
Encourage students to wear green, make your copies on green paper, and serve green snacks or drinks. If you can’t serve food and drinks, you can also encourage students to bring green foods in their lunches that day!
If you need snack ideas – green apples, grapes, celery sticks, cucumber slices, green Jell-O, and green cupcakes.
Another fun thing to do is to give students green school supplies – everyone could use a brand new pencil at this point of the year!
Read the book Ten Lucky Leprechauns and discuss the numbers found in the book.
Create Leprechaun cutouts and have students count them.
Students can draw their own Leprechauns with their favorite number from the story.
Students could practice putting the numbers in order. Other students could practice adding or subtracting the numbers found in the Leprechaun pictures.
Again, be creative and see what you can come up with!
Leprechaun Trap
Have students create a Leprechaun trap. They can bring in recyclable materials to design and build a trap for catching a Leprechaun.
Ask for materials ahead of time such as: cardboard boxes, shoeboxes, stickers, glitter, gold coins, or shiny beads, string, and ribbon.
Students will pick a cardboard box or shoebox to use as the base of their trap.
They will use markers, construction paper, stickers, and/or glitter to decorate the outside of the box. They can add some lucky symbols – shamrocks, rainbows, pots of gold, etc to try to attract the Leprechaun.
Students will need to be creative and figure out to make it move to trap the Leprechaun. They can use shiny objects such as coins or beads to entice the Leprechaun into going into the trap.
Once all traps as finished, display the traps for everyone to see and to try to catch a Leprechaun!
On the morning of St. Patrick’s Day, give students a chance to check their trap for a Leprechaun before taking their traps home.
Math fact games are always a fun addition to the holidays! Students can play these games for doubles, making ten, and the near doubles strategies.
The students will love the different themes for St. Patrick’s Day and won’t even realize they are learning at the same time.
Read Pout-Pout Fish Lucky Leprechaun. Discuss the different fish in the story. After reading, students can create patterns with the different fish or draw their own fish that should be in the story.
Practice word problems with these March Word Problem Task Cards. Students can solve basic facts, 2-digit numbers, or 3-digit numbers. Each version is slightly different!
Use these Shamrock Lucky Coins as counters during March. St. Patrick’s Day coins make the best counters for math and go great with my math fact games for St. Patrick’s Day.
Give your students practice solving two-digit addition and subtraction problems using base ten blocks. These worksheets are perfect for homework, early finisher activities, substitute plans, morning work, and group work review.
