St Patrick's Day Activities

I love to incorporate fun little unit studies and on holidays, and these St. Patrick’s Day activities are the perfect way to celebrate, even if you don’t have any Irish in your ancestry. Whether you use these activities for your homeschool or just a family fun night, there are a lot of different ways to learn and celebrate at the same time!

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St Patrick’s Day activities for your homeschool

You don’t need to put together a full-fledged unit study about Ireland or St. Patrick’s Day, but you can easily pull together a few activities to learn about Irish history and culture.

Books

These are some of our favorite books to read for St. Patrick’s Day:

These books are great to get a look into Irish history and culture:

James O’Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie de Paola (this book is FUN!)
Irish Legends for Children
Tales from Old Ireland (mine came with an audiobook version you can listen to!)
This is Ireland by Miroslav Sasek
Festivals of the World Ireland by Patricia McKay

This research and notebooking bundle is perfect for helping your kiddos gather up information they read in the books or watch in the videos.

Research & Notetaking Bundle

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Printable Coloring Page

Color this traditional Irish blessing while you’re watching a video about St. Patrick or reading aloud.

Traditional Irish Blessing Coloring Page

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Videos

We watched this video about the history of St. Patrick last year, and it was fantastic! It also gives a great peek into Ireland – the landscape, the food, buildings, etc. This video is almost an hour long, but was very engaging for my kids.

This video is a short one that gives the story of St. Patrick:

Map Work

Find Ireland in an atlas (find a list of our faves in my Amazon storefront) or on a globe
Print or draw a map of Ireland
Watercolor the map – I like this tutorial for watercolor painting maps.

Food

Try cooking some traditional Irish recipes like corned beef and cabbage, Irish soda bread, or shepherd’s pie.

Bake some shamrock cinnamon rolls.

I don’t think there’s anything traditionally Irish about a mint milkshake ;) but it sure is fun to have on St. Patrick’s Day!

Do you like book lists?

If you like book lists like this, you’ll LOVE The Lit List! If I could, I would invite you over to peruse my bookshelves and recommend all my favorite books. Since I can’t, you can join Cultivate Your Home to get curated book lists, organized by topic and general reading level. Use it to find new read alouds, create your own unit studies, or just find books that are appropriate for your kiddos.