Fun & Easy Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

Happy St. Paddy’s Day, from our family to yours! If you’re looking for fun ways to celebrate this holiday, try the following ideas.

String Up a Free Pennant Banner

Deck the halls with one of our festive St. Patrick’s Day banners. We have several styles and sizes to choose from.

Take a Trivia Test

Take our “It’s Not Easy Being Green” Quiz. – Can you identify all these famous green characters? Test your long-term memory — you may have to dig pretty deep on a few of them.

Color an Gaelic Blessing

Download our Irish Blessing Coloring Page. – This coloring page features the same blessing as is shared above in this post, only in a black-line format all ages can enjoy coloring.

Play I Spy

See how fast you can find all the St. Paddy’s Day themed items listed at the bottom of this free printable.

Feast on Green Cuisine

Host a green-themed Leprechaun Lunch – We’ve done this for years — it’s a sure way to have a happy and tasty Saint Patrick’s Day. Just make sure everything on the menu is green.

Unscramble Some Saint Paddy’s Day Words

Try your hand at another of our themed word scrambles. It’s trickier than you think, thanks to the capitals at the beginning of each mixed up word.

Read the Whole Story

Read the history of St. Patrick. The picture books Patrick: Patron Saint of Ireland by Tomie dePaola and St. Patrick’s Day by Gail Gibbons are both good choices.

Undoubtedly, there are other titles available. These are just the two we have in our own home library. Patrick’s history is both interesting and inspiring.

Watch the Movie

If you don’t already own the books and haven’t time or inclination to order them, you can also learn more about St. Patrick by watching this free, animated Torchlighters film about St. Patrick:

Take our Saint Patrick Trivia Test

Find out how much you really know about the Patron Saint of Ireland with our brand new St. Patrick Trivia Test.

Get Inspired

Browse my Kiss Me, I’m Irish! Board on Pinterest. – You’ll find a lot more fun ideas for having a happy Saint Patrick’s Day pinned here.

For even more ideas for family fun, check out this post: Make Every Month More Memorable. Or get a copy of my book, Sit Down & Eat.

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