St Patrick’s Day Hidden Clovers Game

Are you looking for an incredibly fun holiday themed Sing or Dare game? Try out this St Patrick’s Day Singing Time Hidden Clovers game! It includes a variety of fun Irish jokes for kids, singing time actions themed for St Patrick’s Day, Interesting facts about Ireland, and some fun Leprechaun dares.

Of course, we’ve included a bunch of printable 3 and 4 leaf clovers with a variety of challenges and Primary songs on them or blank clovers to write in your own.

Visit this post to see all of our St Patrick’s Day Singing Time Ideas!

St Patrick’s Day Hidden Clovers

Setup & Play St Patrick’s Day Hidden Clovers:

Print out the clovers on the following page on cardstock. You can print the blank clovers or the filled in challenges. Cut out the clovers. You can leave a white margin to make it much easier to cut without cutting all the curves of the clover!

Write a mix of different activities on the back of each clover. They could include a song to sing, a silly Leprechaun dare, an Irish joke, an action to do while singing, win a prize (gold coin or a piece of candy), etc.

Hide the clovers around the Primary room and then send a child “hunting” for clovers. In a large primary, you might have 2-3 children help and then when they all return, you’ll just read through each of the clovers they found. If you get more than one song in their hunt, let the kids vote on their favorite!

St Patrick’s Day Hidden Clover Ideas:

Below, you’ll see a list of all the fun different ideas I’ve included within the printable. You can mix and match and use all the categories or just your favorites.

St Patrick’s Day Singing List:

• When I am Baptized
• I Love to See the Temple
• Search, Ponder and Pray
• My Heavenly Father Loves Me
• The Church of Jesus Christ
• I Feel My Savior’s Love
• I Am a Child of God
• Give Said the Little Stream
• All Things Bright and Beautiful
• I Often Go Walking
• On a Golden Springtime
• The Golden Plates

I have a massive list of 45 Primary Songs that are great for St Patrick’s day over here if you want to mix and match and add your own favorites from that list! Of course, you can also just stick with your Primary Program songs for the year. There’s quite a few from the Old Testament Primary Songs list that work for a St Patrick’s Day theme.

Leprechaun Dares:

• Show off your best Irish Jig (dance)
• Pretend to play the bagpipes during the next song
• Wear a Leprechaun (hat, scarf, beard, etc) the rest of Singing Time
• Draw a Leprechaun on the whiteboard

Interesting Facts about the Irish:

• If your palm is itchy, it’s a sign that money is coming your way!
• The Irish will traditionally hide a coin, ring, or other small objects in their Halloween food.
• In Ireland, people will often say good morning to the Magpies (a type of bird) to prevent bad luck!
• Don’t forget to thank your bus driver, it’s a custom in Ireland!

Irish Jokes for Kids:

• What’s a leprechaun’s favorite cereal? Lucky Charms!
• What happens if you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck!
• What kind of bow can’t be tied? A rainbow!
• What kind of music do leprechauns love? Sham-rock.

Singing Time Actions:

• Do a jig while you sing! Hop with your toe pointed outward, then hop with you knee up, repeat.
• Skip around the room as you sing.
• Stomp on a keyword throughout the song.
• Snap (or clap) to the beat.

Extension Activities:

#1 – Match the Clovers: Write song titles on the 4 leaf clovers and a fun singing action on the 3 leaf clovers. Have the children find one of each and then combine the singing style or action with the song selected!

#2 – Sing the Clovers: Let them simply search for a clover. All the 3 and 4 leaf clovers list a song. Sing through the song found!

#3 – Hide and Seek Clovers: Have 1-3 children step out of the room, then hand out the clovers and have the children hide them! Not too difficult that they can’t be found. The children all sing while the helpers hunt for all the hidden clovers. Then repeat with new helpers to seek and new helpers to hide the clovers.

#4 – Team Clover: Split the room in half. Assign 4 leaf clovers to one side of the room and 3 leaf clovers to the other side of the room. Add a clover to the board after each time singing for whichever side sang with the most enthusiasm and participation! You can change up what you’re looking for each time such as most smiles, loudest singing, reverent singing, best whisper singing, etc.

Bonus Idea: Have your Primary help you make the challenges and actions to add into the mix! Then, shuffle all the clovers on the whiteboard or on a table, and let them pick one!

Continue below to grab the printable Hidden Clovers St Patrick’s Day game! Then, for another super cute holiday themed Sing or Dare, check out our Patriotic Stars & Stripes Game! You might even come up with some fun spin off ideas to include as additional dares for this game.

Printable St Patrick’s Day Singing Time Hidden Clovers Game

The free printable for this post includes 3 pages with Leprechaun dares, Facts about Ireland, and Irish Jokes for Kids! Combine these with your songs of choice.

Bonus printables are included in the INSTANT Primary singing membership in March of Book of Mormon Year or in my shop. They include a printable lesson plan, additional shamrock cards, 1/2 page size and blank clovers.

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For another fun St Patrick’s Day themed activity that would pair wonderfully with this game, see our St Patrick’s Day Song Quiz printables!

What other fun challenges would you add to this St Patrick’s Day Hidden Clovers game?