Free St. Patrick's Day Coloring Pages and Printables for Kids

Do your children enjoy coloring? If so, here are some links for great free St. Patrick's Day coloring pages and printables.

The first website is Color A Smile and it's extra special. Color A Smile is a non-profit organization that collects crayon drawings from children every month and distributes them to nursing homes, meals on wheels programs and other individuals across the country in need of a smile. The organization, based in Morristown, NJ, does not charge anyone to receive the drawings, they exist on voluntary donations. The Color A Smile website includes a Coloring Book where you can chose coloring pages or drawing pages from many options. They have pages available for every holiday, including St. Patrick's Day. All you need to do is print out the page, have your child color or draw and finally mail the masterpieces to the address supplied on the website. It's a wonderful way to bring a smile to people that are homebound or in nursing homes.

The FamilyEducation website features several printables, recipes, homemade gift instructions and crafts for St. Patrick's Day. This website will truly help your children learn about the holiday and the wonderful culture behind it.

Another website worth taking a look at is apples4theteacher. The website has quite a few coloring pages as well as other activities. Children can learn about the background of St. Patrick's Day. They can also color Irish symbols, cartoons, Ireland's flag, shamrocks, celtic crosses, leprechauns and much more. This website also features crafts, stories, puzzles and games.

If you are looking for simple St. Patrick's Day printable coloring pages, you must take a look at coloring.ws. The coloring pages include leprechauns, rainbows and shamrocks.

After looking at coloring.ws you can take a look at one of its sister sites, DLTK's Coloring.DLTK features crafts, coloring pages and projects for many holidays and themes. The website offers tons of different St. Patrick's Day printables and many other activities.

Another sister site is first-school. This website offers coloring pages and other activities for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Children can work on a leprechaun craft, worksheets, and of course, printable coloring pages.

For adorable printable coloring pages try activityvillage. The website also features printable coloring cards, origami instructions, puzzles and crafts.

Printables4kids features a cute St. Patrick's Lucy Clover and Leprechaun Coloring Page.

You can also find St. Patrick's Day coloring pages on the Crayola website. Crayola also features craft pages such as for a clover collage, an Irish ribbon banner, a leprechaun hat and a lucky blarney stone.

The Disney FamilyFun magazine website has lots of coloring pages, printable cards, gifts and decorations for little ones to make. Definitely take a look at the recipe section for fun St. Patrick's Day cupcakes, cookies and even soup.

With all these sites available, your children will not be bored, and will have St. Patrick's Day cards and gifts for everyone on their lists. Happy St. Patrick's Day!