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Introduction:

"Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or simply Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385-461), the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on 17th of March. The day is a national holiday of Ireland ... It is also a public holiday in Montserrat. In Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Argentina and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated, but is not an official holiday...." - Wikipedia

Lesson Plans:

Art:

• Here's a St. Patrick's Day idea for making a shamrock fan (P)
  
• This is a lesson idea for St. Patrick's Day called "Painting Without Paint" (P-K)
  
• This Karo Syrup painting idea can be used for St. Pat's if you substitute "Shamrocks" (P-1)
  
• Here students write Irish blessings on green hearts that are combined to form shamrocks (K-6)
  
• This is a quick idea for making St. Patrick's Day shamrock headbands (P1)
  

Language Arts:

• Here students examine the punctuation of a message left by a leprechaun (P)
  
• In this idea, notes are exchanged with mischievous night-visiting leprechauns (P-1)
  
• "Guess the Shamrock" is a spelling game idea (1)
  
• "If I Had a Pot Of Gold..." is a creative writing idea for St. Patrick's Day (2)
  
• In this idea, students compare and contrast their St. Patrick's Day traditions (2-4)
  
  

Math:

• In this Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Donkey type game, students count and learn directional words while "Filling Our Pot of Gold" (P)
  
• Students graph clover shamrocks that they find in the schoolyard in this lesson (K-1)
  
• This is a "Green Survey" and graph (1)
  
• This graphing idea uses Lucky Charms cereal (2-3)
  
• Here's another magically delicious graphing activity with Lucky Charms (3-5)
  
• In this math idea, lucky students find four-leaf clovers amid the 3-leaf shamrocks (MO)
  
  

Science:

• In this science idea, a carnation is magically turned green (K-4)
  
• Here is an idea for growing shamrocks (K-5)
  

Social Science:

• This lesson teaches the history of St. Patrick's Day (2)
  
• Students can put themselves in the shoes Irish-American immigrants here by virtually exploring the Ellis Island immigration station (5)
  

Other:

• Here are ideas for green food for St. Patrick's Day (P-1)
  
• This St. Patrick's Day lesson is an amalgam of other lesson ideas found on this site (2-4)
  
  
• If you have any St. Patrick's Day lesson plans to share, please add them to our site!

Additional Resources:

• You can find St. Patrick's Day worksheets at EdHelper.com
• More St. Patrick's Day craft activities are detailed at Crayola.com
• Learn about the history of St. Patrick's Day, its food, traditions, parades, authors and other important people that celebrate the day at History.com
• These high school lesson plans from PBS.com search for Ancient Ireland
• Download Irish tunes, jigs and lyrics here
• Here is an Irish dance thinkquest
• These sites take the sham from the shamrock and the con from the leprechaun
• This "marvelicious" St. Patrick's Day site hosts a wealth of information that teachers might enjoy
• Here is a St. Patrick's Day PowerPoint and a reader's theater script

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