Fun St Patricks Day toddler activities! Huge variety of St Patrick’s Day crafts for 2 year olds and 3 year olds (and even good for preschool St. Patrick’s Day ideas and March activities calendar).
Fun Ideas for St Patricks Day Toddler Activities
If you’re wondering what do you teach preschoolers on St Patrick’s Day or what are creative St Patricks Day activities for toddler kids, you’ll love this list! Great for what is St Patrick’s Day for preschoolers theme unit, children’s books to go with Saint Patrick’s Day activities, and March activities for 2 year olds and 3 years old, too!
How do you make St Patricks Day fun for kids?
Toddler Activities For St Patrick’s Day:
- Make a St. Patrick’s Day themed sensory bin, sensory bottle, or rainbow sensory bag (or green theme sensory box)
- Finger paint a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end
- Make a paper leprechaun hat (a favorite St Patrick Day activity for my daughter and a fun St Patrick’s Day craft for preschoolers and little ones!)
- Go on a green scavenger hunt
- Make shamrock snacks (see our easy recipe for kids!)
- Have a Saint Patrick’s Day lucky gold coin hunt or gold dig
- Make a leprechaun trap
- Sing the 5 Little Shamrocks song
- Use white and green dot markers with shamrock stencils
- Play with shamrock felts
- Create a toddler St Patrick’s Day activities busy bag
- Make a clover hand print
- Practice green bead or rainbow bead threading for fine motor skills
- Get free printable St Patrick’s Day coloring sheets
- Have fun with rainbow sensory rice play
- Make St Patrick’s Day toddler art with rainbow playdough
- Cut out shamrock cookies with a shamrock cookie cutter and play dough
- Read St. Patrick’s Day books (list below)
- Have pot o gold at end of rainbow snack (see recipe below)
- Make an easy green recipe St Patrick’s Day parfait (see recipe below)
- Take a nature walk and point out green things for fun outdoor toddler activities for St Patrick’s Day
- Search St Patricks Day toddler activities near me and go to an event for St Patrick Day family activities
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Make a St Patrick’s Day craft leprechaun paper hat!
Make healthy St Patrick’s Day snacks and green foods for kids!
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Fun St Patrick’s Day Activities Toddlers Ideas
Try these fun St Patrick’s day activities for 3 year olds and 2 year olds (and even preschool themes!) for the holiday! Lots of fun for St Patrick’s Day nursery activities or even fun St Patrick’s Day activities for Sunday school!
Saint Patrick’s Day Toddler Activities:
- Make a leprechaun paper hat (always a hit for St Patrick’s Day craft PreK activity!)
- Put together theme St Patrick’s Day toddler activities busy bags
- Drink green milk (milk with a little green food coloring)
- Make a St Patrick’s Day parfait recipe (green foods are fun!) and then eat it together!
- Do a foam shamrock St Patricks Day craft for kids
- Make an edible St. Patrick’s Day sensory activity with marshmallow shamrocks, green marshmallows, Lucky Charms cereal, and chocolate gold coins (Be careful with this if you’re creating St Patrick’s Day crafts for one year olds. Lucky Charms marshmallows are small!)
- Play leprechaun dress up (try these!) and have a St Patrick’s Day party
- Make a leprechaun door so your leprechaun can get in (get inspiration from this fairy door craft)
- Use finger paints and a large roll of art paper to paint St Patrick’s rainbow crafts (simple St Patty’s Day art projects!)
- Go on a St Patrick’s Day hike to look for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for St Patrick’s Day outdoor activities for kids
- Put on St Paddy’s Day music and do a leprechaun movement dance class (just have fun!)
- Download worksheets and do easy St Patrick’s Day cutting activities (be sure to use toddler scissors!)
- Make a bead rainbow using these
- Play with rainbow dyed rice and make a rainbow (great for any rainbow activities for 2 year olds and up!)
- Sort different green St Patrick’s Day pom poms (get some here) for color green activities
- Make a shamrock St Paddy’s Day treat
- Go on a St Patricks Day coin hunt with these
- Make Pot-O-Gold Popcorn Bites
- Decorate St Patrick’s Day crowns
- Make St. Patty’s Lucky Charms cereal bars
- Make green eggs sweet treat (easy food St Patrick’s Day crafts for 3 year olds for a preschool classroom or St Patrick’s Day daycare activities!)
- Make mini leprechaun food you can eat
- Make funny edible leprechaun poo
Let us know what’s on your list of fun St Patrick’s Day toddler ideas and we’ll add them here!
Best St Patrick’s Day Preschool Books Read Aloud List
If you’re wondering how to explain St Patrick’s Day to preschoolers and toddlers, kids’ books are a great way to do that! Add these St. Patrick’s Day children’s books to your St Patrick’s toddler activities, St Patrick’s Day circle time activities, and St Patrick’s Day learning activities!
Best St Patrick’s Day Children’s Books
- St. Patrick’s Day – Irish Traditions and History for Children
- Happy Leprechaun Finger Puppet Plush St. Patrick’s Day Board
- The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day
- The Berenstain Bears’ St. Patrick’s Day
- Peppa Pig: Peppa Loves St. Patrick’s Day
- How to Catch a Leprechaun
- Baby’s First St. Patrick’s Day (Baby’s First Holidays)
- You’re My Little Lucky Charm
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
We hope you enjoy these St Patricks Day toddler activities for the Saint Patrick Day holiday!
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