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Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th.
(You can wear green on that day.)


eBooks
St. Patrick's Day Treasure Hunt #16 -- Easy

Easter & St. Patrick's Day Thematic Unit

Easter & St. Patrick's Day Thematic Unit eBook

Easter & St. Patrick's Day Thematic Unit is based on the following pieces of literature: Leprechauns Never Lie, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. This reproducible resource is filled with ready-to-use lessons and cross-curricular activities. Also included are management ideas, creative suggestions for the classroom, and a bibliography.


Ireland
Social Studies

Locate Ireland on the map or globe.  Talk about Ireland.

The three leaf clover (the shamrock) is the national emblem of Ireland.  Go to: History Channel: Shamrock to learn more.  There are more links if you go further down (on this Saint Patrick's Day Theme page).

St. Patrick's Day @ Julieann Including what the flag colors represent.

Irish and Saint Patrick's Day Links (including printables)
A Bit O'Blarney online Irish import shop, Free Irish stuff, Irish links, and more
About.com - St. Patrick's Day Family Fun
Crafts, games, recipes, gifts, coloring pages, legends and stories, leprechaun, shamrocks, and rainbows.
Absolutely Green Facts about St. Patrick and Ireland, Rainbow & gold, and children section.
Absolutely for St. Patrick's Day History, books, recipes, links, send a greeting, games, and more.
All About Four Leaf Clovers
Celtic Family -- Activities With Children
DLTK's St. Patrick's Day Craft for Kids Including information, recipes, and more.
Easy Fun School: Celebrating St. Patrick's Day: Craft Index
Easy Fun School: St. Patrick's Day Unit Study
Easy Fun School: St. Patrick's Day Index
History Channel: The History of St. Patrick's Day
Irish History on the Web
Irish Jokes An Alternative Web Site Jokes, pictures, food, famous Irish people, and more.
Kids Cookie Mix St. Patrick's Day
Mrs. Williamson's Kindergarten St. Patricks's Day Unit
Preschool Express: Shamrock Time Art, counting book, shamrock lineup (largest to smallest), finger puppets, games, song, and snack idea.
Preschool Express: St. Patrick's Day
Seasonal Arts and Crafts for the Month of March: St. Patrick's Day
St. Patrick's Day @ Alphabet-Soup History of St. Patrick's Day and Leprechauns, games (online: quiz, unscramble, & word search, printables: crossword puzzle, puzzle, and dot-to-dot), recipes, songs and poems, books, art, nameplates, special paper,
St. Patrick's Day Coloring Pages @ Preschoolcoloringbook
St Patrick's Day Crafts, Recipes, History from Families On-Line Magazine Including St. Patrick's Day Crafts, Recipes, Songs, Irish Proverbs, Irish Americans, and Irish  Blessings. New 3/14/05
St. Patrick's Day Crafts @ Enchanted Learning Crafts, jello snack, leprechaun marionette, hat, Ireland map and flag printouts, green things, geography quiz, and shamrock letterhead.
St. Patrick's Fun at Kid's Domain
It even includes coloring pages, mazes, word puzzles, board game, recipes, links, and more.
The Activity Cupboard - crafts for kids
Yahoo: Saint Patrick Links Activities and Crafts, Events, Graphics & Clip Art, Virtual Cards, and Web Directories.

Shamrock (Clover) Photos
Look at some shamrocks at one (or both) of the below sites:
Billy Bear's St. Patrick's Day Wallpaper
Photograph of Shamrocks, Oxalis deppei @ The Garden Helper

Art: Draw (or paint) your own shamrocks.
Math: Have the child/ren look at the above photos (or  a real shamrock) and count how many leaves are on a clover.

Arts & Crafts
Shamrock Art
Use a pattern from one of these sites (or make your own).
(You will need to enlargen this pattern that you choose.)

First-School Coloring Pattern - Clover or Shamrock (About 5 3/4".)
Preschool Express Pattern Station: Shamrock Including large (about 7" wide) and small patterns and activities.
Shamrock Shape Book @ abcteach.com (About 6 1/2" wide.)  You can cut the smaller shamrock off and use the rest as a pattern.

Print the pattern on green paper.  Have the children fingerpaint (or paint using cotton swaps, paint brushes, setc.) using the colors they like.

Language Arts
On a piece of paper (or clover pattern), have the children do one of the following:
Write as many words as you can think of using the word "Ireland".
Write as many words as you can think of using the word  "Leprechaun".
Write as many words as you can think of using the word "Rainbow".
Write as many words as you can think of using the word "Shamrock".
Write as many words as you can think of using the word "Four Leaf Clover" (or "Three Leaf  Clover").

Home Economics: Cooking
- Make sugar cookies (or dairy-free sugar cookies), cupcakes, or cake.  (You can use some of my cake recipes).  Frost with green frosting and sprinkle with colored green sugar *, coconut, sprinkles, etc.  If you like, you can frost it with white frosting and decorate with colored green sugar * or sprinkles.

* Place some granulated sugar in a plastic bag.  Add some green food coloring to it.  Mix the sugar.  * Shake the cookies in the coated green sugar.

-Make lime gelatin.

Holiday Green Salad or Pistachio Fruit Salad

Lucky Green Pudding
Talk about three leaf clovers (shamrocks).  "Sometimes you will find four leaf clovers and when you do, you are lucky.

Poem

Read this poem:

Four Leaf Clover
by Ella Higginson (born in 1861)

I know a place where the sun is like gold
and the cherries bloom forth in the snow;
And down underneath is the loveliest place,
Where the four-leaf clovers grow.

One leaf is for FAITH,
And one is for HOPE,
And one is for LOVE you know;
And GOD put another in for LUCK:
If you search you will find where they grow.

But you must have FAITH,
And you must have HOPE,
You must LOVE and be strong and so...
If you work and you wait,
You will find the place
Where the FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS grow!

To learn more about this poet, go to: Finding Aid - Ella Higginson Collection.

4 Leaf Clover Facts

Sing Four Leaf Clover song.
Now, let's make some "Lucky Green Pudding".
Make vanilla pudding or dairy-free vanilla pudding.  Add a few drops of green food coloring (even some mint extract) to it.  Stir.  Enjoy.

Make any recipe found at the below links:

Irish Recipe Links
In Ireland, it is a tradition to now eat fresh meat instead of corned beef.
Go to: St Patrick's Day: Irish Cooking and Recipe @ Families On-line Magazine Recipes to read more about why those in the United States eat corned beef.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day - Home  Cooking at BellaOnline
Irish Recipes
Irish Recipes and Baking @ Irelandseye.coms
Irish Recipes for St. Patrick's Day @ holidayspot
Irish Soda Bread @ child.com
Recipe Source: Irish Recipes

Music & Physical Education

Four Leaf Clover
Four-Leaf Clover @ KIDiddles
I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover Lyrics and Music

Irish Lullaby Song (Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral) @ NIEHS
Irish Songs Lyrics, Irish Lullaby

Kids Cookie Mix Irish Folk Songs Danny Boy, An Irish Lullaby (Too-A-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra), The Kerry Dance, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Also at: Kids Cookie Mix St. Patrick's Day you can hear another Irish song.

Irish Folksong Find lots of Irish songs.  It includes the lyrics and midi's for most of the songs.  Click on melody to hear them.

Traditional Irish Songs There are some songs with music and lyrics (e.g. Danny Boy) but the majority is lyrics only.

Irish Dancing Gr. 4/5 Grassroots

Bagpipe
    Bagpipes At Best Midi's can be heard at this site.
    Bagpipe Music Scores
    Canadian Bagpipe Links Including midi's

Games
Dublin (Irish) Game

Stories
Kids Stories Irish culture and customs - World Cultures European

Printables
abcteach.com: St. Patrick's Day Printables and coloring pages.
About.com - St. Patrick's Day Family Fun
Crafts, games, recipes, gifts, coloring pages, legends and stories, leprechaun, shamrocks, and rainbows.
Absolutely Green  Facts about St. Patrick and Ireland, Rainbow & gold, and children section.
AFUNK: Coloring World
abcteach. Shamrock Shape Book
You can use this to write a poem or story.
A to Z Teacher Stuff - Printables: March - St. Patrick's Day (Word search & word puzzle)
Billy Bear 4 Kids: St. Patrick's Day Fun
Bry-Back Manors
 Color the Rainbow #31 (With a pot of gold on the bottom.)
 St. Patrick's Word Find: #82 
 St. Patrick's Counting: #188
Bry-Back Manor March 2002 Bonus: Shamrock Calendar Pieces Including blank shamrocks that you can use to write "MARCH" (Print it on green, glue them together, write the letters on each shamrock, and laminate.), numbers, alphabet, etc. on them.
Coloring Page - St. Patrick's Day - Shamrock @ YouthonlineK
Free Printable Math Worksheets: Saint Patrick's Day Themed @ KidZone Grades 1-5 (These can be used for other grades too; depending on the child.)
Free Printable St. Patrick's Day Clover coloring Page @ Chart Jungle It is in outlined in green.
How many shamrock's do you see? @ Math Forum Circle the word "shamrocks".
Ireland Themed Coloring Pages @ coloring.ws A flag of Ireland, a map of Ireland, and some Irish Folklore printables (including leprechauns).
Irish - free games from Ireland @ ireland-information
Leprechaun Printout
Lucky Shamrock Box for St. Patrick's  Day
March Ideas from abcschoolhouse There also is a pdf file you can download all the March ideas.
Pick the Shamrocks Game
Shamrock Connect The Dots @ coloring.ws Lower case A thru Z connect the dots coloring page.
St. Patrick's Day Coloring @ coloring.ws Coloring pages, Shamrock Connect the Dots, and Pot of Gold Hidden Pictures Puzzle.
St. Patrick's Day Crafts @ Enchanted Learning
Crafts, jello snack, leprechaun marionette, hat, Ireland map and flag printouts, green things, geography quiz, and shamrock letterhead.
St. Patrick's Day Word Searches and Crosswords! @ edHelper

St. Patrick's Dot-to-dot: Shamrock @ Alphabet-Soup (1-40)
St. Patrick's Fun at Kid's Domain It even includes coloring pages, mazes, word puzzles, board game, recipes, links, and more.
Treasures of the Heart Childcare Match the Numbers, word search, shamrock, and Irish Bear.
thekidzpage.com: St. Patrick's Coloring Pages and Maze

Online St. Patrick's Day Activities

PrimaryGames.com: St. Patrick's Day Games
Saint Patrick's Day On-Line Games (and Puzzles) @ DLTK

Billy Bear 4 Kids
Color the Leprechaun (color me Green!)
Holiday Online Coloring Book (The first one.)
Leprecaun Fun: Dress Em' Up
Online St. Patrick's Day Maze Game
Seek-a-Word: St. Patrick's Day
St. Patty's Pot O' Gold Game (Math: Coins)
Tic Tac Toe the Leprechaun!
Try to Catch the Leprechaun

Alphabet Soup (Older Children)
St. Patrick's Day Quiz
St. Patrick's Day Search
St. Patrick's  Day Unscramble

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