Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in school while having students practice their English & math skills with these St. Patrick’s Day activities! 

With fun, holiday-themed activities that integrate math and literacy practice, you’ll keep your class on track while taking a break from the typical school day. These activities call on students to be creative and inquisitive—whether you teach first or eighth grade, there’s an activity here for your class!

St Patrick’s Day Activities for Elementary Students

It’s especially important to recognize holidays in classrooms of younger students to broaden their perspectives and teach about human culture and history. Themed English & math activities are a fascinating way for them to celebrate holidays like St. Patrick’s Day while practicing those foundational math & literacy skills!

1. St. Patrick’s Day Multiplication & Division Activities

Looking for basic operations learning materials that your students will enjoy completing? This resource is a set of no fewer than SIX St. Patrick’s 

Day Multiplication and Division activities, involving creativity and discovery on each page.

From a set of numbered shamrocks of which students will color the multiples of seven to multiplication & division searches that will form images when solved, these worksheets are perfect for classrooms solidifying their operations skills. This March, whether you need assignments for math centers or themed post-lunch worksheets to use throughout the week, this is an exceptional resource.

Created and made available for free download by Hooty’s Homeroom.

2. Limerick-Writing Craft for St. Patrick’s Day

Primarily used by 3rd and 4th grade classrooms, this poetry-writing activity is a fun way for students to practice their creative writing skills!

While the origin of the limerick is unknown, this type of poem, known for being brief and funny, is commonly associated with Ireland. Students will learn about poetry using limericks by learning their rules, reading examples, and filling out easy-to-use templates. Once they’ve perfected their draft, they can write out their poem neatly in the shamrock on the final page—making cute, creative decorations for the classroom this March.

Created and made available for free download by Kim Miller.

3. “Lucky Me!” Writing and Reflection Activity

Thanksgiving isn’t the only time of year for gratitude and reflection. With this activity, celebrate St Patrick’s Day in the classroom with a positive, creative spin!

Have your students practice their writing abilities with this “Lucky Me!” introspection activity, which tasks them with writing about the things that make them lucky. From the support of their family to a trinket that gives them confidence, have them explore the parts of their life that give them strength and fortune. 

Created and made available for free download by Cindy Gilchrist.

4. St. Patrick’s Day Math Riddles

Conversion between measurements is one of the most important math topics because of its real-world applications. Help them master customary measurements with this fun activity!

Perfect as an in-class assignment or homework (that students can color afterwards for bonus points!), This St. Patrick’s Day Riddles worksheet tasks students with converting between customary lengths. (Such as representing feet in yards or even miles in inches.) Each question is marked with a letter. When a student gets their answer, they’ll be able to populate a letter in the fun, fill-in-the-blank riddle, finishing their practice with a chuckle!

Created and made available for free download by Rebecca’s Ready Resources.

St Patrick’s Day Activities for Middle School Students

Break up the everyday routines your middle schoolers are used to with fun celebrations of upcoming holidays! These activities will have them exercise their math and English skills while they get into the fun spirit of St. Patrick’s Day.

1. Decoding Coordinate Grid Riddles & Jokes

Every middle schooler should be well-acquainted with the coordinate grid. Help your students strengthen their graphing skills with this St. Patrick’s Day activity!

This resource provides a coordinate grid with letters at various points. In order to solve the five fill-in-the-blank jokes & riddles, they must locate the coordinate assigned to each blank and fill it in with the corresponding letter. Upper elementary and middle schoolers love decoding these riddles, and the repetitiveness of locating each coordinate pair will help them strengthen their graphing muscles without even realizing it!

Created and made available for free download by Math Chick.

2. Limerick-Writing for Middle Schoolers

Limericks are silly poems that follow a very particular rhyme scheme and rhythm. Revive your students’ love for a fun rhyme with this limerick-writing activity! 

This resource first provides three limericks as examples so that students can get familiar with the format, together with questions about the rhyme scheme. Then, three templates are provided to help them come up with their own silly poems. Assigning students to study limericks and create them will help them grasp the writing devices used in poetry while exercising their creative writing abilities!

Created and made available for free download by Addie Williams.

3. Color-by-Number Proofreading Activity

It’s not easy to get students excited about grammar, especially when they often communicate without it over text messaging. Proofreading activities will train their brain to spot errors, which will help them find mistakes in their own writing! 

Have your students read through miswritten sentences and identify their errors with this themed proofreading assignment. They’ll be tasked with reading through each of the 14 miswritten sentences and identifying each sentence’s error. Using the provided key (run on=red, capitalization error=blue, etc.), they’ll color in a fun image based on the mistakes they identify! While it may not get them passionate about punctuation, this thematic twist is sure to make this editing a fun experience.

Created and made available for free download by Julie Faulkner.

4. St. Patrick’s Day Math Puzzle – Two-Step Inequalities

What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? This is the riddle students will be solving with this activity, so don’t spoil the answer if you know it! 

One of the tougher ideas for middle school math students to grasp is solving two-step inequalities. Help them practice it with this themed, targeted practice! The fifteen algebraic phrases correspond with fifteen equations in algebraic notation—students must match them to reveal the riddle’s answer. Algebra novices will appreciate the themed nature of this practice assignment.

Created and made available for free download by The Morehouse Magic.

Find More Learning Resources Like These at Piqosity!

We hope your classroom finds these free St. Patrick’s Day activities to be instructional and intriguing! Celebrating holidays with educational activities provides students a fun way to practice their skills while they expand their understanding of different cultures and their traditions.

You can find more (non-themed) reading and writing lessons with questions of similar difficulty levels in our ELA and math courses! These are complete courses available online through our app and can be purchased separately or received for free when bundled with our ISEE test prep courses.

Full-Length ELA Courses:

Full-Length Math Courses:

The best part? You can try out all of Piqosity’s features with a free community account, which features a free mini diagnostic exam to evaluate your (or your student’s) current abilities. When you’re ready to upgrade, Piqosity’s year-long accounts start at only $89.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!