12 Sensory Friendly St. Paddy’s Day Crafts

Ways to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Your Kids

St. Patrick’s Day is always a fun one for the kids! There are a lot of fun crafts that your child can make to celebrate the holiday.

For children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), art and craft activities that incorporate the senses can be an effective way to improve your kid’s attention span, self-expression and reduce any anxiety related worries. Other activities can also help them learn and use new vocabulary terms and also addresses their communication goals through the fun activities. Here are some fun activities and crafts that your child with special needs is going to be able to do and enjoy. You can read the full directions in the links down below:

1. Shamrock Foam Dough Hidden Shapes

This craft is about exploring loose materials, hidden shapes and tracing, and classic foam dough. It is a sensory play that helps children develop words to sensations and strengthen new motor skills through shaping, molding, and mixing. You can see the directions at this link.

2. Water Beads St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin from Little Bins for Little Hands

This craft is about hiding some gold coins for St Patrick’s Day and turning this sensory bin into a hands-on math game for young kids. It is a sensory activity that helps explore the unique feeling of the water beads and receive all the sensory input they have to offer like learning and developing new tastes, textures and smells, exploring shapes and colors and growing independence through play. You can see the directions at this link.

3. Edible Rainbow Sensory Bin

This craft is a sensory play, where you create a rainbow using food, that is very important and beneficial for babies and younger children that helps explore new shapes and colors, helps learn and develop new tastes, textures and smells and grow independence through play. You can see the directions at this link.

4. March Sensory Bin

This craft is a green sensory bin that you decorate with the color green and with objects that are from St. Patrick’s Day. This sensory bin helps with the child’s development through learning and developing new tastes, textures and smells, growing independence through play and enhancing their memory. You can see the directions at this link.

5. St. Patrick’s Day Vocabulary with crafts: “Leprechaun, Leprechaun What Do You See? – Colors and Shapes Edition”, “Where is the Shamrock?” and, “Leprechaun, Leprechaun What Do You See? – Counting Edition”.

Learning of St. Patrick’s Day with Art Craft

This vocabulary craft is a great way to practice identifying the attributes of color, preposition, location, attributes, and sequencing in a fun, seasonal way. It helps enhance their memory, explore shapes and colors, develop fine motor skills to use for grasping and writing when they are older and learn new vocabulary. You can see the directions at this link.

6. St. Patrick’s Day Treasure Hunt

St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt (Printable Shamrocks)

This craft is a really fun scavenger hunt that has to do with a book that you read and will tell you all the clues of where the treasure is. It is a game that helps enhance your memory, learn cause and effect, grow independence through play, learn new vocabulary and improve your social skills with other children. You can see the directions at this link.

7. Green Party

This green party teaches your child about the color green and what St. Patrick’s Day is all about.

8. Pot of Gold Coin Toss

This is a really fun and entertaining game that encourages the players to toss gold coins underhanded into the pot. It helps with the gross motor skills of the child and grow independence through play. You can see the directions at this link.

9. Rainbow Road

St. Patrick’s Day Games and Activities for Kids

This is a rainbow road craft by laying a colorful course for your kids to follow by weaving yarn around trees and in between fences. Each colored string should lead to a mini pot of prizes. This craft helps enhance your memory, learn cause and effect, explore different colors and improve your motor skills. You can see the directions at this link

10. Kinetic Sand Rainbow Building: Get kinetic sand and pipe cleaners (one for each color of the rainbow) and start building the St. Patrick’s rainbow.

This craft is very entertaining because you get kinetic sand and pipe cleaners (one for each color of the rainbow) and start building the St. Patrick’s rainbow. It helps enhance your memory, helps learn and develops new textures and colors, and to develop a fine motor skill. You can see the directions at this link

11. St. Patrick’s coloring books

Coloring books are a good and way to have fun and learn about all the specific items that make the St. Patrick’s Day. It helps enhance your memory, learn new vocabulary, and explore shakes and colors

12. Read a Book: A good St. Patrick’s book is “The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day”

Reading a book can help with sound correspondence, sequencing and comprehension, enhance their memory, and learn new vocabulary as well.

Creative art projects are a great way to help your child work on fine motor skills, creative expression, following direction, and if done in a group environment, they can be a great way to further social skill development.

I hope these different activities and crafts makes it a fun way to celebrate this important holiday and make your children’s day very memorable.

Guest UserMarch 15, 2020