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Free St. Patrick’s Day Printables and Montessori-Inspired St. Patrick’s Day Math Activities

March 15, 2012 By Deb Chitwood 5 Comments

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St. Patrick’s Day is a fun holiday for preschoolers. It’s easy to use the holiday to add interest to learning activities. I’m sharing details today for five different Montessori-inspired St. Patrick’s Day math trays created using free printables.

Free Printables + Materials Used in the Pictured St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Preschoolers-First Graders

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St. Patrick’s Day Numbers and Counters

This activity uses the printable March Match, Number Names Game by Carolyn Wilhelm from Wise Owl Factory. (It’s in the free eMember area.) This is a very versatile printable. You’ll notice that you can use the printable for a game. I use it for a number names matching activity later in this post. Here, I used the rainbow number cards for the numbers and St. Patrick’s Day gold coins from the craft store (Michaels). You’ll need 55 gold coins for the numbers 1-10. Of course, you may use “lucky pennies” instead of gold coins if you wish.

St. Patrick
I like to lay out my numbers and counters in the traditional Montessori way of rows of two counters with a left-over counter centered below the bottom row. This gives a visual impression of odd and even. For more about creating DIY numbers and counters and a link on how to present the lesson, check out my post DIY Cards and Counters.

Counting Leprechaun Gold Activity

Counting Leprechaun Gold Tray

This is very similar to the St. Patrick’s Day Numbers and Counters, so you’ll probably want to choose one or the other (or rotate them) for a child who is working on quantity and symbol. Again, this uses 55 gold coins for the numbers 1-10. The printable is Counting Leprechaun Gold from Story Window.

Counting Leprechaun Gold Activity

For this one, you obviously won’t have room to lay out all the coins in an odd-and-even layout pattern. Since it’s gold coins, I’d just count the coins into the pots in any order. For ideas for presenting this activity, check out the directions for 1 Fish, 2 Fish Counting Tray in my last month’s PreK + K Sharing post.

St. Patrick’s Day Number Names Activity

St. Patrick

This activity again uses the March Match, Number Names Game printable by Carolyn Wilhelm from Wise Owl Factory. There are six different variations of each number 1-10. You can easily adapt this for the level of your child if you have a homeschool or the level of many of the children in your classroom. I’d just recommend removing whichever cards would be confusing for a younger child.

St. Patrick

You can adapt the presentation for Montessori-Inspired Snowman Letter Activities in my January PreK + K Sharing post.

St. Patrick’s Day Addition Activity

St. Patrick

The St. Patrick’s Day Addition Activity uses the Sums to 10 Clovers printable from Kindergarten Lifestyle. This activity can be used with children who are just starting addition work with concrete manipulatives or with children who are learning addition facts. The printable is designed to be used as a game, which you could prepare as well.

St. Patrick

For a simple addition layout, there are many printable pages available in this pack. I’d recommend choosing the addition facts appropriate for your child’s or classroom’s addition work. In the example, I used the addition equations for 5, 6, 7, and 8. This is similar to what I did with the Montessori-Inspired One Fish, Two Fish Addition Tray. You should be able to easily adapt the presentation there for this activity.

St. Patrick’s Day Place Value Activity

St. Patrick

I LOVE the Montessori golden beads for helping children understand the decimal system! For this activity, I used the St. Patrick’s Day Place Value printable by Sarah Hopf at Teachers Pay Teachers along with Montessori golden beads for tens and units and a small felt mat from the craft store (Michaels).

St. Patrick

It’s fine to use ten bars and bead bars for the units instead of individual golden bead units. Check out my DIY Bead Bars post for links to lots of ideas for making your own bead bars and a links for presentations for teens and tens that can be adapted. If you have another manipulative for place value, you could use that in place of the Montessori beads.

Links to some more wonderful St. Patrick’s Day math printables that could be used to create Montessori-inspired activities:

  • St. Patrick’s Day Pack from Over the Big Moon
  • St. Patrick’s Day {Expanded} from 2 Teaching Mommies
  • Over the Rainbow Money Match by Elisabeth Unruh at Teachers Pay Teachers
  • 5 Little Shamrocks – Free Printables from from Mommy Lessons 101
  • Leprechaun Squeeze Game from Over the MoonBow
  • Luck of the Leprechaun Place Value Game by Owl Things First at Teachers Pay Teachers

All of my St. Patrick’s Day activities and resources (updated for 2022):

Free St. Patrick's Day Printables and Montessori-Inspired St. Patrick's Day Activities

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  • Montessori Color Mixing Activities – Rainbows of Color
  • Free St. Patrick’s Day Printables and Montessori-Inspired St. Patrick’s Day Phonics Activities
  • Free St. Patrick’s Day Songs and Rhymes for Circle Time
  • St. Patrick’s Day Cutting Tray with Strings of Beads
  • Free St. Patrick’s Day Hat Do-a-Dot Printable (Montessori-Inspired Phonics Instant Download
  •  Free St. Patrick’s Day Cutting Strips (Montessori-Inspired Instant Download)
  • Kids’ St. Patrick’s Day Activities Pinterest Board

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  1. My Oatmeal Kisses says

    March 16, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    Hey Deb thanks for all of the great ideas! I saw this cute rainbow math idea on Maro’s K. Blog that I thought you might like too! http://maros-kindergarten.blogspot.com/2012/03/blog-post_07.html
    -Kate

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    • Deb says

      March 17, 2012 at 9:35 pm

      Thanks so much for your kind comment, Kate! And thanks for the link. I saw that and thought it was cute, too! I didn’t feature it in my post since a printable wasn’t the main part of the post, but it is definitely a great idea! 🙂

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