What’s not to love about a holiday for magical creatures, rainbows, gold and good luck? We’ve rounded up our favorite St. Patrcik’s Day kids activities, games, and printables for celebrating the magical day. We want to help you create new family traditions for St. Patrick’s Day and make every holiday special.
*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 some of our St. Patrick’s Day prints as free downloads, 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.
Now for simple ideas for a fun and festive St. Patrick’s Day! Below is our round-up of our favorite St. Patrick’s Day party ideas, decor, games, and kids activities. Happy celebrating!!
One of the best ways to celebrate the holidays is with themed food. St. Patty’s Day makes it so easy with all the RAINBOWS!! Our spread of choice: rainbow waffles or pancakes with whip cream and sprinkles, leprechaun juice (milk with green food coloring), and fruit in ALL the colors! Print off our party bundle that includes tabletop sign and labels for your drink and syrup to make it extra pretty.
For the cups, we LOVE the paper party cups from Walmart or Target because of their simplicity, price and color selection. Buy a bunch of different colors and let the paper goods also be part of your party decor.
Don’t forget the placemat! We’ve drawn up the cutest and most magical St. Patrick’s Day themed placemat and coloring page for your kiddos to color on and play games while they’re waiting for their food.
One of our favorite activities with kids is coloring, but coloring a GIANT backdrop is even better! We like to print off the party backdrop as a engineer print or blueprint at our local printing shop for only $5. It isn’t just a coloring activity though, top it off with a rainbow balloon arch + a paper garland and now you have backdrop decor for the food table and a backdrop for a photobooth!
Each year kids everywhere set up leprechaun traps to try and capture one of the magical little creatures. What if they didn’t catch just one, but twelve this time!?! Our Leprechaun Hunt game can be played indoors or outdoors. It was chilly, but the sun was out so we decided to take it outdoors into the “woods” (aka a park by our house).
Our youngest loves the book ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ and that’s where the idea for the leprechaun scavenger hunt game came from. We played it two times; first for our youngest where we hid the leprechauns along the trail so she could easily spot them; and then the second time we really hid them well so the older kids would have to actually search. The kids would scream with delight each time they found one.
Last but not least, the best way to end the day is with a treat! Print off our St. Patrick’s Day cake and cupcake toppers, add them to your rainbow cupcakes or use them as tags and attach them to a bag full of rainbow goodies.
For more St. Patrick’s Day ideas, check out all of our St. Patrick’s Day blog posts here. We hope you have a magical St Patrick’s Day with your ohana!
Much love and aloha,
Stacey + Niki
Aloha Friends! We hope to inspire you to create magical memories with your ohana through play, learning, and celebrating. We offer ideas that make celebrating and playing fun and easy, so that you want to do it more often! We love sharing our creativity and talents with you, and hope you find some content on our page that inspires you to create a beautiful life with your ohana.
