DLTK's Holiday Activities for Kids
Saint Patrick's Day Songs, Games and Poems

Saint Patrick's Day Poems:

By Killarney's Lakes and Fells   by Edmund O'Rourke

Five Green Shamrocks Poem   with felt board printouts

Lake Isle of Innisfree   by William Butler Yeats

Leprechaun Stew Poem   action poem

Limericks

Oh, Did you Ne'er Hear of the Blarney   by Samuel Lover

Saint Patrick was a Gentleman   by Henry Bennet

The Shamrock Poem   by Andrew Cherry  

 

Saint Patrick's Day Songs:

He Lived Under a Rainbow  (tune of B-I-N-G-O)

Irish Eyes

I'm a Little Leprechaun  (tune of I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a Little Shamrock  (tune of I'm a Little Teapot) 

 

Saint Patrick's Day Game:

Modify Doggy Doggy where's your bone to be Leprechaun, Leprechaun where's your shamrock
  

• One child is the leprechaun -- sits in the middle of the circle with eyes closed
    
• One of the children in the circle hides the shamrock behind their back - I always have an adult distribute the shamrock so all the kids get a turn.
    
• Circle children say:  "Leprechaun, Leprechaun where's your shamrock?  Somebody has it in their Pocket!  Guess who?  Maybe you?  Maybe a monkey from the zoo!  Come on Leprechaun find your shamrock."
    
• Leprechaun opens eyes and has 3 guesses as to who has the shamrock.
    
• Child with the shamrock becomes the next leprechaun.