Free Printable St. Patrick's Day Lesson Plans

St. Patrick's Day, March 17 has a silly holiday aspect. Wearing green, the blarney stone, leprechauns, 'Kiss Me, I'm Irish' pins. There was a man and a story behind St. Patricks' Day. Here are free printable lesson plans to explore these stories. Some of these lesson plans do focus on the light-hearted aspects of St. Patrick's Day, but they are interesting, educational lesson plans.

Mr. Donn (click here) Mr. Donn has a nice assortment of free printable St. Patrick's Day lesson plans featuring stories, word puzzles, word games, social studies, math and units.

Alphabet-Soup (click here) has a cute assortment of free printable St. Patrick's Day puzzles, games, reading activities, word search, dot-to-dot and alphabet letter fun.

DL-TK What I like about DL-TK, besides the huge assortment of free printable crafts, games, puzzles and coloring pages, is that DL-TK tells the religious stories behind the cutsey stuff. St. Patrick was a transplanted Roman (Patricus) living in Briton in the fourth century. As a boy he was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland. He escaped, but later returned as a Catholic missionary to Ireland and performed many miracles. The story of Patrick casting the snakes out of Ireland is probably more legend than fact, but DL-TK does offer printable coloring pages of snakes.

Enchanted Learning (click here) is a Top Five educational and free printable activities website. To get banner-free printable activities, Enchanted Learning does charge a $20 site fee, which many school districts pay annually for their teachers' use. I strongly encourage homeschoolers to pay the $20 site fee to use Enchanted Learning. Enchanted Learning has thousands of free printable math activities, booklets, crafts, worksheets, maps, social studies activities, cut and paste, science activities, crafts and so much more. You will get 50 times your $20 in free materails. Excellent St. Patrick's Day history, geography, culture, math and reading lessons.

I have purposely not listed the free activities included on the major teaching website, like A-Z, Teach-nology and other known educational resources. These sites generally require a costly site fee to access more than two or three free printables. For more free printable lesson plans, visit me at www.freeprintablelessonplans.blogspot.com. For more Catholic and religious instruction, visit me at www.catholicactivities.blogspot.com.