Teachers are always looking for ways to infuse a little more fun into learning, and St. Patrick’s Day gives us a great opportunity to do that, with clover, leprechauns, and everything green. And there are so many fun STEM learning activities that can be done around St. Patrick’s Day, from some of your classic STEM projects with a St. Patrick’s Day twist to building leprechaun traps.
Those posts will give you plenty of ideas for St. Patrick’s Day themed projects you can do in the classroom or at home, but I wanted to add a few more for the season.
Carly & Adam have a few low-prep STEM challenges you can try, including building a bridge out of coins, a leprechaun tower and a rainbow bridge.
Science Demo Guy has a set of printable task cards for STEM challenges available at Teachers Pay Teachers, which were meant for distance learning because they’re activities you can do with minimal materials. For all six activities all you need are construction paper, paper cups, straws, craft sticks and yarn, as well as scissors, tape and glue. Check out the blog post to see all the activities and how to set some of them up.
Do some St. Patrick’s Day coding without a computer to draw the images on these free printables from Mama Teaches. The codes make a rainbow, leprechaun hat and shamrock design, and you can get them on her freebies page when you sign up to receive emails.
Teach Student Savvy also has a collection of STEM challenges with a St. Patrick’s Day twist, but the one that caught my eye was this fun and colorful rainbow run, which is easy to make with cardboard and construction paper. You can get inspired by the blog post and if you want the full lessons with printables on simple machines, instructions for kids to follow, places to record observations and more, you can get the whole activity pack at Teachers Pay Teachers.
St Patrick’s Day Activity books on Amazon
