Get out the green and build a leprechaun trap!  These St. Patrick’s Day activities are sure to be a hit with school age children.

Rainbow Fruit Pizza

 

Supplies

  • Pillsbury sugar cookie dough (2 rolls)
  • 1 can cream cheese frosting
  • Strawberries (cut in half)
  • Mandarin Oranges (peeled and pulled apart)
  • Pineapple tidbits
  • Kiwi (peeled and sliced)
  • Blueberries
  • Purple Grapes
  • Pizza Tray

How To

  1. Trim and prep the fruit
  2. Spray a cooking pan with pam
  3. Roll of the sugar cookie dough onto the pan that it fills half the pizza tray (I used a pizza cutter to trim the bottom)
  4. Bake as directed
  5. When the cookie as cooled spread the frosting evenly along the rectangle
  6. Arrange the fruit in an arch starting with strawberries and working down to purple grapes.

Leprechaun Punch

Mix together the punch and sprite, then scoop the sherbet into the punch bowl.  Next to the punch post a sign that says:
“Adults be warned this punch is not for you.  If you drink it your feet will turn green, yellow or blue! – The Leprechauns”
Before the kids arrive take a green marker and color your toes.  When the kids arrive let them read the sign. Pour the punch for the kids and take a sip of the punch in front of them.
When they start start laughing tell them that a little sip can’t really turn your feet colors. They will want to see your feet.  Take off your shoe and expose your green toes!

St. Patrick’s Day Bingo

Everyone loves Bingo, get the kids into the spirit of fun with this bingo game. You can get it on amazon for under $10.  Bingo is suitable for all ages and is an easy way to get everyone involved and building relationships. Click here to see St. Patrick’s Day Bingo on Amazon.

Build A Leprechaun Trap

Supplies

  • Paper towel tubes
  • Legos
  • Cardboard
  • Paperbag
  • Tape
  • Scissors
  • Blocks
  • Any other materials you have around
  • Gold coins (click her to see on amazon)​

When I was a kid we built a leprechaun trap every year in grade school.  At the time I knew it was fun. But looking back I can see it was a great STEM activity before STEM was an everyday academic term.   In today’s world, where so many schools and organizations limit holiday events and celebrations this may be the first opportunity for kids to build a leprechaun trap.

Ask kids to build a trap that will catch a leprechaun.  We all know leprechauns love gold, so lure them into a trap with a shiny gold coin.

Before the kids arrive on ‘St. Patricks day collect all the gold from the traps and set off any contraptions rigged to catch the leprechauns.  For an added touch sprinkle gold glitter around the traps.  When the kids arrive, they will be shocked that there traps did not work and that the leprechauns got away with the gold.

Paper Shamrock Craft

 

Supplies

  • Construction paper (greens)
  • scissors
  • stapler
  1. Cut stripes of construction paper that measure about 1/2 inch by 4 inches
  2. take two stripes and staple one end
  3. fold the other two ends down so they touch (the paper will look like a heart)
  4. Staple those ends.
  5. Repeat three more times until you have four green hearts
  6. take one more stripe of construction paper (the stem) and staple each heart to the stem as pictured here.

Rainbow on a stick

Supplies

  • Fruit Loops
  • Small marshmallows
  • Wooden Skewers
  1. Give each child a bowl of Fruit Loops, a wooden skewer and a few marshmallows
  2. Have them first push the marshmallow onto the end of the stick.
  3. Have the kids start to add Fruit Loops in order of the rainbow starting with red and ending with purple.
  4. When no more loops fit, ad the other marshmallow.