Spring is finally around the corner! Celebrate the season with these fun St. Patrick’s Day writing activities!
Is March the longest month, or is it just me? The worst of winter is pretty much behind us but everyone can sure use a pick-me-up. It’s the perfect excuse to have a little lighthearted fun with St. Patrick’s Day!
Try these st. patrick’s day writing activities
Of course, it’s not St. Patrick’s Day without leprechauns! Your students will enjoy learning about some of the folklore surrounding these little fellows.
Storybooks about leprechauns and St. Patrick’s Day can set a fun atmosphere for your lessons. The book Jack and the Leprechaun has beautiful illustrations and lightly touches on the myths about leprechauns, as well as using some Gaelic words.
Since they are trying to trap a leprechaun in the story, you could have your students make their own leprechaun traps! Just provide them with simple materials, such as small boxes, string, yarn, bags, glitter, plastic spoons, etc. They can use these to build their traps and then “bait” them with chocolate (those chocolate gold coins would be really fun here!), sticky tape, or warning signs.
After they’ve built their traps, they can then write about how their traps work. Let them imagine what would happen if they actually caught a leprechaun!
Doing St. Patrick’s Day writing activities is a really fun way for your students to use their imaginations! There are so many aspects of this day that you could use to inspire your students to write. They could focus on leprechauns, shamrocks, rainbows, pots of gold… all of these would make great story starters. Click here for some free printables to get your students started!
St. Patrick’s Day Writing Prompts
Using writing prompts will help your students get their writing brains started. Here are some fun St. Patrick’s Day writing prompts.
- I woke up one morning and the world was green!
- What would you do if you found a pot of gold?
- I had lunch with a leprechaun today and he told me …
- I caught a leprechaun!
- If you had a lucky four-leaf clover, describe what your day would be like.
- What would the land look like at the end of the rainbow?
- If you were a leprechaun, what would you do all day?
Other St. Patrick’s Day Resources
I’ve created a resource containing 10 different St. Patrick’s Day writing activities.
This St. Patrick’s Day Writing Prompts pack offers you a range of Graphic Organizers and Templates to help engage and encourage students to write about St. Patrick’s Day. The pack includes original limericks, non-fiction text and writing prompts. Posters are also included. There are 10 writing activities in total.
- The ideas in this pack may be used as whole group activities or split through small groups, depending on skill and choice.
- Blackline versions are also available, where appropriate, should you wish to save on ink.
I also have several other St. Patrick’s Day resources that you might like!
Do you have any fun writing activities that you do on St. Patrick’s Day? We’d love to hear about them!
