Feel like getting lucky with St Patricks Day STEM activities this March? These fun St. Patrick’s Day coding activities will bring the holiday to life on and off the screen. Add these St. Patrick’s Day coding activities to your St. Patrick’s Day STEM activities! Check out why coding for kids is so beneficial before getting to the list of coding activities for kids to add to your St Patricks Day activities.
There are actually more St. Patrick’s Day coding activities for kids than you might at first imagine.
Check out the list of coding activities for St. Patrick’s Day as well as some other useful coding resources for kids below.
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How is Coding Beneficial for Kids?
Coding teaches kids a lot. First of all, kids learn a coding language, that they can take with them throughout life. Many careers and office jobs today and in the future rely on coding skills.
Even simple processes often require some knowledge of background coding. Even Excel uses coding principles.
Even if kids grow up and never touch technology, however unlikely that is, they can still benefit from the skills taught by these St Patricks day coding activities.
Teacher Apparel for St. Patrick’s Day
Here are some of the cutest shirts you can wear for St. Patrick’s Day at school!
Sequin Clover St. Patrick’s Day Teacher Shirt
Shenanigans Coordinator St. Patrick’s Day Teacher Shirt
My Students are Lucky Charms St. Patrick’s Day Teacher Shirt
Inclusive St Patrick’s Day Teacher Shirt
Lucky Clover St. Patrick’s Day Teacher Shirt
Have a Lucky Day Teacher Shirt for St. Patrick’s Day
Irish Alphabet St. Paddy’s Teacher Shirt
St. Patrick’s Day Shirt for Math Teachers
One Lucky Teacher St. Patrick’s Day Shirt
Coding for kids teaches discipline, how to follow directions, logical thinking, troubleshooting, patience, problem-solving, and how to make things work within a framework.
These are highly valuable skills that children can take with them anywhere.
And if kids hate the idea of coding, adding in a fun St. Patrick’s Day coding twist will make it more fun for even the most reluctant coders.
Coding Kits and Tools
We love these coding kits and tools for kids. You can use these tools alongside your screen-free St. Patrick’s Day coding activities.
Coder Bunnyz – The Most Comprehensive STEM Coding Board Game Ever! Learn All The Concepts You Ever Need in Computer Programming in a Fun Adventure. Featured at TIME, NBC, Sony, Google, Maker Faires!Osmo – Creative Starter Kit for iPad – Ages 5-10 – Creative Drawing & Problem Solving/Early Physics – STEM – (Osmo Base Included)
Learning Resources Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set, 83 Pieces, Ages 4+
ThinkFun Roller Coaster Challenge STEM Toy and Building Game for Boys and Girls Age 6 and Up – TOTY Game of the Year Finalist
ThinkFun Code Master Programming Logic Game and STEM Toy – Teaches Programming Skills Through Fun Gameplay
ThinkFun Rush Hour Traffic Jam Brain Game and STEM Toy for Boys and Girls Age 8 and Up – Tons of Fun With Over 20 Awards Won, International Bestseller for Over 20 Years
Elenco Teach Tech “Mech-5”, Programmable Mechanical Robot Coding Kit, STEM Building Toy for Kids 10+
ThinkFun Robot Turtles STEM Toy and Coding Board Game for Preschoolers – Made Famous on Kickstarter, Teaches Programming Principles to Preschoolers
Thames & Kosmos Kids First Coding & Robotics | No App Needed | Grades K-2 | Intro to Sequences, Loops, Functions, Conditions, Events, Algorithms, Variables | Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner
Learning Resources Code & Go Robot Mouse, Coding STEM Toy, 31 Piece Coding Set, Ages 4+
Learning Resources Coding Critters Ranger & Zip, Toy of the Year Award Winner, Interactive STEM Coding Toy, Early Coding Toy for Kids, 22 Piece Set, Ages 4+
ThinkFun Potato Pirates Coding Card Game and STEM Toy for Boys and Girls Age 7 and Up – A Fun Card Game of Potato War
Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-a-pillar Twist
The Best St. Patrick’s Day Coding Activities for the Classroom
These coding activities for kids all have a hands-on component and provide a fun seasonal twist on the type of coding activities that most students do in elementary and middle school.
Here is a collection of our favorite free St. Patrick’s Day coding activities and paid Saint Patrick’s Day coding activities to use in the classroom or at home for kids who are interested in learning to code on their own.
St. Patrick’s Day Classroom Decorations
Here are some fun St. Patrick’s Day classroom decorations you can add to your classroom this March for festive flair and St. Paddy’s Day pride!
St Patrick’s Day Door Wreath for the Classroom
Pot of Gold Tinsel Tabletop Decoration
St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Welcome Sign
St. Patrick’s Day Classroom Door Decorations
St. Patrick’s Day Window Clings for the Classroom
St. Patrick’s Day Door Decorations for the Classroom
Pot of Gold and Rainbow Ceiling Hanging
Lucky Hanging St. Patrick’s Decorations
St. Patrick’s Day Banner Decoration Set
Colorful St. Patrick’s Day Classroom Decoration Bundle
And check out even more St. Patrick’s Day teaching resources below!
- St. Patrick’s Teaching Resources
- St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
- St. Patrick’s Day Classroom Kits
- St. Patrick’s Classroom Decorations
Older kids will have a blast making a light up shamrock.
Of course, you won’t want to miss making rainbow slime for ST. Patrick’s Day! You can also try this glitter rainbow slime recipe or this fluffy rainbow slime recipe.
Free St. Patrick’s Day Coding Activities
These St. Patrick’s Day coding challenges are completely free to try with your students or kids at home.
Tynker has this fun coding challenge. where you can program a monster to collect clovers!
If you have an ozobot Evo, then you’ll love trying out this St. Patrick’s Evo challenge!
Young kids will love this screen-free coding worksheet for St. Patrick’s Day and they can use Lucky Charms to code!
Learn some binary with this St. Patrick’s Day binary challenge.
St. Patrick’s Day Books for the Classroom
Use these books about St. Patrick’s Day to supplement your St. Patrick STEM activities this March!
St. Patrick’s Day STEM Activities
The Story Behind St. Patrick’s Day
Celebrations in My World: St. Patrick’s Day
Paid Coding Activities for St. Patrick’s Day
These coding activities for St. Patrick’s Day cost a few dollars, but you can reuse the activities in the classroom year after year.
These unplugged game boards have a fun coding theme for St. Patrick’s Day.
Make St. Patrick’s Day coding bracelets using these instructions.
These screen-free St. Patrick’s Day coding mats focus on directional coding for kids.
This coding activity gets deep into Irish history and lore learning about Ogham stones!
Kids will have fun with these Leprechaun coding activities.
If the kids in your class love text coding, then they will have fun coding these ST. Patrick’s Day text art challenges.
What are your favorite St. Patrick’s Day coding resources?
St. Patrick STEM Activity Resources for the Classroom
Here are some fun St. Patrick’s themed STEM products you can use with your students this March!
St. Patrick’s Day STEM Activities
MagiCoders Rainbow Unicorn Coding Kit
St. Patrick’s Day Bingo Classroom Kit
Kaleidoscope STEAM Kit for the Classroom
Clixo Rainbow Engineering Classroom Set
Disappearing Rainbow Science Experiment
Fools Gold Science Dig Classroom Kit
TechyKids Canada
Wednesday 10th of March 2021
These are some really fun and interesting coding activity ideas for kids. It's a great way to enhance their creativity and can also make learning fun for them. Thanks for sharing and explaining it so well!