Engaging St. Patrick’s Day Activities Your Students Will Love

Holidays are always such a fun and exciting time in the classroom. Students are eager to celebrate with classroom parties, treats and games. That is all good and fun, but I also like to use holidays as a time to learn as well! Incorporating holidays into everyday lessons gets students excited to learn and helps them to stay focused and engaged. During the school year, we celebrate many fun holidays, which means tons of opportunities to turn the fun holiday season into an educational moment as well. March is here, Spring is in the air, and it is time to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Here are some of my favorite ways to incorporate the lucky Irish holiday into classroom learning your students will love!

We all know how much our students love using technology in the classroom. Digital resources can help keep students engaged during learning which is always a good thing in my book. Google apps are a fantastic digital option for teaching in the classroom, doing virtual e-learning, or for homeschooling students! They are simple and easy to use for both teachers and students. One of my favorite Google apps is Google Slides. Students can work through the slides one by one interacting with text, images and/or videos. They also get experience using the mouse, typing, and other technology skills. It's a great platform for digital learning activities.

Let’s dive into some of these fun St. Patrick’s Day activities you can use on Google Slides! 

All About Ireland

You can’t talk about St. Patrick’s Day without talking about Ireland! This Ireland country study makes a great social studies lesson to use around the Irish holiday.

I love using teaching my students all about Ireland by using these interactive research activities. Then students are provided with related writing activities to help them assimilate the information they learned.

My students love learning in a variety of ways and this digital lesson has it all. With clickable buttons, they can watch videos, read information, and listen to songs all about the country of Ireland.

They love learning facts about the country, history, and cultural activities like Gaelic football. Traditions like kissing the blarney stone and watching Irish dancing are also fun for students to learn about! It is a great way to teach about a different country and make comparisons with our own.

Learning All About Ireland is the perfect way to kick off your St. Patrick's Day study or activities.

Let’s Learn About Potatoes!

Typically when we think of St. Patrick’s Day we think of all things green, shamrocks, blarney stones, and leprechauns…not potatoes!! But truthfully it is a part of Irish culture that brings with it lots of great learning opportunities for students.

I love to include it in my St. Patrick’s Day lessons and students enjoy learning about the starchy vegetables they love to eat mashed or covered in butter and sour cream!

In this resource, students will learn the history of potatoes (yes, they have a history!), how they grow, how to cook them, and about the great potato famine in Ireland.

After they learn all about potatoes there are some great writing activities for them to complete including facts and opinions and summaries using can, have, are.

You could even expand on this fun lesson by showing students how to grow a potato in the classroom. They are really easy to sprout using just a potato, some toothpicks, and a cup of water. This article from Sciencing.com will tell you everything you need to know!

St. Patrick’s Day Fun

St. Patrick's Day is a holiday that most of our students are aware of, even though they don't have Irish ancestry. And while most love to jump into the fun of wearing green, they often don't know a lot about the history of this holiday. That means it is the perfect topic for digging in! Take students on a deep dive into the holiday itself. St. Patricks Day is a holiday rich with history and fun traditions.

This activity is a fun way to explain to students the background of this holiday and why we celebrate like we do.

My students love learning about why we wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, the history behind the holiday, and all about those mischievous leprechaun creatures! There are also a variety of extension writing activities for students to complete based on what they learned.

Pull out students’ creative side and see how much of the lesson they comprehended with writing prompts like “What I learned about St. Patrick’s Day. . .” and “What traditions take place on March 17th?”. These are engaging activities for students that are both educational and fun!

Let’s Talk About Rainbows!

St. Patrick's Day has a science connection too! Rainbows! When we think of traditions surrounding St. Patrick’s Day we think about leprechauns and a big pot of gold at the end of a colorful rainbow.

This is the perfect timing to dive into all things about rainbows and what makes them so cool and magical including the science behind them! Students will learn cool facts about rainbows and how a rainbow is made.

They also get to see fun experiments and even go on a virtual field trip!

Like the other St. Patrick's Day activities, this one also includes some extension activities so students can apply what they learned.

This is a fun and interactive way to learn all about rainbows and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at the same time!

The Magic of St. Patrick’s Day

There is so much fun and learning that can happen around the St. Patrick's Day holiday. With these easy digital research and writing activities, you can cross off those social studies, science, and writing standards. So break out your best green outfits, set your leprechaun traps, and get your students excited to learn all about St. Patrick’s day.

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