St. Patrick's Day Free Faves

Below are some of my favorite St. Patrick's Day free resources.

St. Patrick's Day Journey Interactive Web Activities at the BBC
This site has a TON of great stuff, both to do online and activities to download (some I found in a section for parents, and others, including a "make your own celtic village, and map of places associated with St. Patrick, I found on various pages of the "St. Patrick's Journey."  I couldn't play the flash game so tried the non-flash version.   The site has both the history of St. Patrick (said in first person, as if St. Patrick were telling it)  and information about the Celtic peoples that were there when he was a missionary there.  It was done with a lot of respect for both the Celtic peoples and St. Patrick's Christianity.  

St. Patricks Day Unit Study by Oresan Orchards
A unit study with information about St. Patrick and the history of St. Patrick's day, and various themed activities such as studying rainbow prisms and fruit loop graphing.

St. Patrick's Day Unit Study by Susan Evans
A unit study packed with video resources on both St. Patrick and Irish customs, food ideas, and some fun crafts.

St. Patrick's Day Unit
I like this collection of texts and activities because of the way that it builds on and reviews things that it covered earlier, so the pieces work together well.  It contains the Christian origins of St. Patricks Day.

St. Patricks Day Coloring Book
This book has the story of St. Patrick and info about modern St. Patricks Day.

St. Patrick's Day Book
This free printable book takes a look at St. Patrick's day, and it's history, customs and traditions, from a secular viewpoint.  St. Patrick himself is only mentioned briefly, as the patron Saint of Ireland (there is no bio of him as in the Unit Studies above).  Leprechauns and good luck charms are also handled by saying that "some people believe" in them.



Some Nifty Irish Coloring Pages
Ireland: Life in Celtic Times
Ireland: Celtic Knotwork, 2
St. Patrick Coloring Page (Original)  This shows him chasing out snakes, which is probably metaphorical, as there's no evidence Ireland ever had snakes...I edited out the snakes in the picture at the top of this page, which you can click on and save if you want). 
Christian St. Patrick's Day Coloring Page 
Artsy 3 Leaf Clover


Ireland Resources 

Study Ireland

Not Free...But Worth Mentioning

Ireland Unit Study - Only Passionate Curiosity
I got this when it was briefly free...but for $2.50 it's not much.   This unit has lots of info about Ireland - it has math work using a map of Ireland, a page on the Irish flag, which also deals gently with the conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland.  Also has info on  the Hill of Terra*, a bio on St. Patrick (a little dry), Celtic Cross art, The Book of Kells,  a rainbow science experiment, design an Irish coin and an Irish recipe.



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