If you love celebrating the holidays with your Primary children, this post is perfect for you! I’ve compiled my favorite St Patrick’s Day Singing Time Ideas into one post so they are easy to find and implement.
Some of the St Patrick’s Day Singing Time Ideas will link you to printable lesson plans right here on this blog. Others are from other Primary Chorister and bloggers we love! Still, some of the ideas I’ve only shared here, so read on through the whole list to find some fun activities to do in March during Singing Time!
You may also want to visit our post on 45 St Patrick’s Day Primary Songs to help you plan out the perfect list with even a mix of St. Patrick’s Day song picks, if you’d like, to include!
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15 St Patrick’s Day Singing Time Ideas
First, you’ll find a TON of different way for teaching your existing songs while adding a bit of holiday fun that I’ve shared here on my blog. Then, continue below for some more different activities by other Primary music leaders and song-specific activities that would work great for the holiday!
1. St Patrick’s Day Fortune Teller
All eyes will be on you with this printable St Patrick’s Day Fortune Teller or the MONSTER sized poster board version! It includes a variety of fun ways to sing and singing time actions. If you have extra time, you can have the children help create their own and fill in the actions!
2. St Patrick’s Day Hidden Clovers
In this fun St Patrick’s Day Hidden Clovers game I have included a variety of Irish trivia, jokes, simple fun actions, and songs to sing in this unique spin on the Sing or Dare game! You can also repurpose the printable clovers to come up with your own fun games for St. Patrick’s Day!
3. Rainbow Ribbon Wands for St Patrick’s Day
Another favorite choice is to pull out your Rainbow colored Ribbon Wands for St Patrick’s Day singing time! You can pair them with When I Am Baptized or any other song you choose while turning the room into a rainbow of color.
Don’t shy away from ribbon wands, even the boys secretly enjoy them!! You can get Ribbon Wands on Amazon here. They’re super flexible and easy to use in Primary! If you want to easily make your own patterns, you’ll fall in love with my Ribbon Wand Action Cards!
4. Song Quiz with St Patrick’s Day Primary Songs
Test their knowledge with this fun Song Quiz Game for St Patrick’s Day! Each line includes a clue and then a scrambled set of letters. Solve the letters, then decode what song you’ll be singing! There’s some fun unique song lyrics over here you may want to grab, too!
5. Pass the Irish Hot Potato!
Bring in a literal potato or use our cut printable potato for this classic Hot Potato game! Kids love the silly ideas best, from my experience. Sing through a song and have the children pass the potato down their row until the song ends. The child at the end is “it!” Including lots of fun ways to utilize this review game to fit your Primary room!
6. Pot of Gold Bean Bag Toss
Decorate your St Patrick’s Day bean bag toss game with a variety of clovers with different Primary songs listed on each one. Then, add a pot of gold picture on the actual hole they are aiming for! Then, they get to pick the song if they land in the pot of gold!
7. How Irish Are You? Game
Have some fun with a simple nod to St Patrick’s day with this adorable How Irish Are You? themed game! You’ll ask the children questions to score points if they apply and find out who has the most Irish heritage while singing through your song of choice for review. This would be great with Family History theme or use the actions to add some fun to the song repetition.
8. Use Jingle Bells in Singing Time
If you’re looking to add a fun instrument into your St Patrick’s Day Singing Time, jingle bells are the perfect choice! They’re so much fun and they are also perfectly on theme and are a perfect activity for if you have lots of kids.
The golden bells will fit in with a bunch of the themed songs for the day, too. Consider shaking on each word and then with the beat!
This rainbow pack of Jingle Bell bracelets also tie in the rainbow theme! Or, you can go for the Christmas colors Jingle Bells and pass out green ones to the children that aren’t wearing green!
9. St Patrick’s Day Roll a Rainbow Game
Roll a dice then color in or add a cut out piece to your rainbow! This cute Roll a Rainbow St Patrick’s Day game was inspired by the original Cootie game where you rolled a dice to build a bug. Now, you get to build a rainbow while you sing a variety of fun Primary songs!
10. Penny, Penny, Who’s Got the Penny
Did anyone else play the Penny, Penny, Who’s Got the Penny game as a family growing up? This cute game will have you hiding pennies or secretly passing pennies. Then, you can choose to draw one of these penny, penny ways to sing cards!
11. What Comes Next St Patrick’s Day Sequences
This adorable What Comes Next St Patrick’s Day Game is a perfect way to add in the fun of this holiday into your music time with our 6 selected songs or your own mix of songs! We’ve paired the sequence patterns to the first few notes to add in a fun way to teach music theory at the same time!
12. Taste the Rainbow
Have the child grab a skittle blind (no peeking!). Let them eat the skittle. If there are allergies they can hold it with their palm closed. Then, try to guess the color! If you guess correctly, child picks the song. Otherwise, it’s the color selected.
Now, don’t mind my picture below! I freeze dry my Skittles, so it’s all I had on hand. Did you know you can freeze dry at home? I don’t usually do candy, but it is a fun treat! If you want all the details on that crazy part of my life, I do have a tiny blog for my freeze drying adventures you can check out as well. 🙂
13. I’m Seeing Green!
Bring in a baking sheet or a sensory bin filled with an assortment of green items. Then, assign a song title to each of your green objects. You can either hide the objects around the room or simply let the children pick one from the tray. Sing the matching song! Head over to this fun I’m Seeing Green lesson plan with lots of ideas for using this tray of objects activity in singing time!
14. Lucky Charms Ways to Sing Review Game for St Patrick’s Day
Sing through one song over and over or add in a mix of songs with this multi-purpose Lucky Charms Ways to Sing Review Game! There’s several fun ways to play and cute included cards or blank options to add your own actions or song titles. This fun game can be used any time of the year, but it’s great for St Patrick’s Day to add in some holiday fun, while using your own custom song list.
15. Leprechaun Treasure Hunt Rhymes
Use these cute rhyming clues singing time idea was created by Richelle Lee and shared with permission to start your own Leprechaun treasure hunt! She came up with 11 different fun locations to hide a clue and an adorable poem to get started with the activity.
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More St Patrick’s Day Singing Time Ideas
Looking for even more ways to incorporate St Patrick’s Day in your Primary Singing Time? You don’t have to do anything super over the top! There are a ton of printable singing time lesson plans on this blog, so pick an activity that naturally fits in with the theme and give just a little nod to the holiday this year.
Here are some of our lesson plans that focus on a specific song that would be great to use for a St Patrick’s Day Singing Time:
- When I Am Baptized Rainbow Paper Plates
- Review Game: Candy for Courage
- Love One Another Ribbon Wands
- My Heavenly Father Loves Me Hand Bells
- When I Am Baptized Mini Conducting Course – Just add a fun themed pointer or a Leprechaun hat to add to the theme!
- He Sent His Son Ribbon Wands
- The Holy Ghost Jingle Bells
- Search Ponder and Pray Melody Map
- Come, Follow Me Ribbon Wands
- He Sent His Son Jingle Bells
- When I Am Baptized Comic Strips
- When I Am Baptized Ribbon Wands
- I Will Follow God’s Plan Body Rhythm
Sing a Rainbow
How cute is this Sing a Rainbow poster by I Heart Primary Music? Her post has a darling leprechaun to use, but not a rainbow. You can grab our printable rainbow above or make your own on the whiteboard with some colorful markers! Then, the Junior Primary kids follow what the Leprechaun is pointing to. See the full idea in her post!
- Leprechaun Limericks (Facebook Group)
- St Patrick’s Day Sing or Dare (Facebook Group)
- Rainbow Balloons (Facebook Group)
- Clover Song Lyrics (Facebook Group)
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What do you have planned as a St Patrick’s Day Singing Time for your Primary? Do you have other fun ideas? Share them in the comments below to add to this list!
