This is such a fun, fast and easy game to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. It also makes a great game for the classroom! Grab this printable St. Patrick’s Day game – Don’t Eat Pete and play it with the kids and their friends for St. Patrick’s Day.
*UPDATE: In order to maintain this little blog and offer more printables in the future, we had to make the tough decision to start charging a small fee for some of our printables. We no longer offer the Don’t Eat Pete Leprechaun game as as free download, but you can find them for a really low cost in our Etsy shop. We appreciate your understanding and hope we can continue creating printables to help families and individuals celebrate all of life’s occassions.
How to play Don’t Eat Pete the Leprechaun: one player leaves the room while the others decide which square / leprechaun is going to be Pete. The player then comes back in the room and starts picking one candy at a time, hoping they don’t pick Pete. Once they take the candy that was on Pete, everyone yells “Don’t Eat Pete!” The player’s turn is over and they get to keep all the candy they picked up to that point. The empty places are filled with another piece of candy and the next player leaves the room. Keep playing until all players have had a turn.
For St. Patrick’s Day we like to let the kids get prizes instead of just candy so we write down things like Playdoh, bubbles, chalk, crayons, coloring book, etc on a strip of paper and crumple it into a ball to place on one of the spaces (that way they can’t tell what it is!). Or you could just add small prizes to the board game. You can pretty much use anything. Kids of all ages love this classic game. We also have Easter and Among Us versions of Don’t Eat Pete so be sure to check those out! It’s one of our kids’ favorite games to play.
Don’t forget to check out our St. Patrick’s Day party round-up with ALL our ideas and kids activity for a fun and easy St. Patrick’s Day party and breakfast! Click here to get all the details so you can celebrate the magical holiday with your family and get some ideas for fun St. Patrick’s Day traditions!
If you’re looking for easy St. Patrick’s Day gifts for the kids, neighbors, teachers, or your students — grab our printable St. Patrick’s Day tags and attach them to a small gift or a yummy rainbow treat.
We hope you have fun playing the Don’t Eat Pete game. Happy St. Patrick’s Day friends!!
Much love and aloha,
Stacey + Niki
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