St. Patrick’s Day doesn’t have to be just about crafts! Add a bit of STEM to your St. Patrick’s Day activities with these hands-on St. Patrick’s Day STEM activities for kids! St. Patrick’s Day does NOT have to be just for adults. This St. Patrick’s Day, bring the holiday into the classroom with these hands-on, super-fun St. Patrick’s Day STEAM activities for kids! Kids will love learning about science, technology, engineering, and math with these fun, green, rainbow, shamrock, and leprechaun activities!
My kids absolutely love the St Patricks Day STEM activities on this list and keep asking to do them over and over, even when it isn’t leprechaun season.
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Fun and Learning with St Patricks Day STEM Challenges
If your kids love Sy. Patrick’s Day, they will have a blast with these St. Patrick’s Day science, St Patricks Day math, and St. Patrick’s Day engineering activities. Learning has never been so fun!
What is a STEM Activity?
A STEM activity (sometimes called STEAM activities, too, if there is an art element) are activities for kids that include elements of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. These four elements are the cornerstone of modern careers and scientific advancements.
Children can benefit from completing STEM activities not just because it helps them learn more in the STEM subjects, but also because it helps them see how these subjects are used in the real world.
As a side benefit, STEM activities help children learn to think creatively, logically, and critically about everything they do and see.
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.
What are Some St. Patrick’s Day STEM Themes?
Kids can learn a lot with St. Patrick’s Day STEM activities. Young children can learn topics including:
- Cause and effect
- Volume
- Reactions
- Color mixing
- Weight
- Patterns
- Counting
- Sorting and classifying
- Scientific terms
- Math terms
- Physics
- Spatial awareness
- The scientific method
The goal of STEM activities at the preschool and toddler level is to explore the world and learn the basics of the scientific method, the creative process, and how to tie all elements of science, technology, engineering, and math together.
In addition to establishing a love of science and exploration, St. Patrick’s Day STEM activities help children explore the world creatively and inspires them to ask the big questions that will one day change our world.
Through touch, exploration, and research, even the youngest kids can learn a lot about science and how the world works.
Kids who are introduced to science and STEM from the start are more likely to have a love for STEM topics as they continue their school careers and enter into careers as an adult.
20+ Magical STEM Activity Ideas for St. Patrick’s Day
Kids will love these hands-on STEAM activity ideas for St. Patrick’s Day! Have even more fun learning and exploring with these St. Patrick’s Day STEAM activities. And of course you’ll want to check out these rainbow STEM activities.
St. Patrick’s Day Science Experiments
These St. Patrick’s Day science experiments will teach kids about rainbows, colors, density, chemical reactions, and a lot more. Find all our favorite science experiments for St. Patrick’s Day here. And here are more rainbow science experiments to try!
Make salt crystal rainbows in this easy tutorial on how to make crystals without borax.
Try this Rainbow Slime science experiment and mix fun with science!
Build your own Rainbow Density Jar!
Make this St. Patrick’s Day Slime and add coins for a fun twist!
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
This easy sensory slime recipe is a fun way to play with sensory and science at the same time with rainbows, green and other Irish colors!
Who knew science could be so bouncy? The DIY Bouncy Ball did!
Make a rainbow cloud in a jar and learn how clouds work.
Try the Magic Milk Rainbow science experiment and learn about surface tension.
This Fizzing Rainbow experiment is the perfect chemical reaction lesson for kids.
The Walking Rainbow Experiment is popular with kids of all ages.
Try this Rainbow Naked Eggs Experiment for more rainbow fun.
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
Leprechaun Trap STEM Classroom Kit
Learn about density when you make this bright and colorful sugar rainbow density tower.
The color changing flowers experiment turns flowers into fun, bright, rainbow colors!
Learn how to grow crystals with salt and celebrate the season with science with these fun pots of gold!
Learn how to flip a rainbow with this simple light refraction experiment.
St Patrick’s Day Technology Activities
These St. Patrick’s Day-themed technology activities teach the basics of coding, circuits, and more!
Make a light-up Circuit Shamrock in this circuits for kids activity!
Make a rainbow salt circuit and learn how electricity works this St. Patrick’s Day!
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
Try the complete list of St. Patrick’s Day Coding Activities for even more technology fun this St. Patrick’s Day.
Learn how to make an instant ice rainbow using technology.
St. Patrick’s Day Engineering Activities
Learn the basics of engineering with these adorable St. Patrick’s Day engineering activities!
Design and make a Perler Bead Rainbow.
The LEGO Rainbow challenge is harder than it looks!
Try the Leprechaun Trap STEM Activity and see if you can catch a leprechaun!
And for another twist on trapping those pesky Leprechauns, learn how to make a leprechaun trap right here!
St. Patrick’s Day Math Activities
Math is a lot more fun when St. Patrick’s Day is involved! St. Patrick’s Day math activities will delight your kids!
Learn about ratios fractions, and other math concepts in the kitchen with these rainbow recipes for kids.
It takes precision to get this Fluffy Rainbow Slime recipe to turn out right!
Practice measuring and counting while making this Glitter Rainbow Slime recipe.
The St. Patrick’s Day STEAM Lesson Plan Bundle includes other fun math activities and elements to try.
St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Kids
You can have even more St. Paddy’s Day fun with these other activity ideas!
Check out this list of Saint Patrick’s Day Games for kids.
Here are some St Patrick’s Day STEM sensory bins that little ones can explore this season.
Mix science, sensory, and fun together with these St Patrick’s Day slime recipes.
Try some of these St. Patrick’s Day fine motor activities with little ones to build hand strength and more!
Try these super adorable leprechaun crafts with your classroom or kiddos at home!
Science Subscription Boxes We Love!
Here are some of our favorite science subscription kits to use at home with your science-curious kids or in the classroom!
Mel Science Physics Subscription (8+)
Little Passports Science Junior (5-8)
Little Passports Science Expeditions (8-12)
Creation Crate Electrical Engineering Subscription Box
