St Patrick's Day Word Search Puzzles

Saint Patrick's Day honors St Patrick the patron saint of Ireland. Observed on March 17th of each year, the St Patrick's Day is a National Holiday in Ireland. The four leaf clover is associated with the holiday as a symbol of luck. Legend says that each leaf of the clover means something: the first is for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and the fourth for luck. Children can enjoy this holiday with printable St Patrick's Day activities like word searches and puzzles. Here are a few places to find activities to do with your children.

1. Blackdog's St Patrick's Day Word Search Puzzles
Parents will find the most extensive list of St Patrick's Day word search puzzles at Blackdog's for kids. The site
contains 50 different St Patrick's Day word search puzzles to choose from. At the bottom of the page, parents can link to an additional page with numerous word games including St Patrick's Day crossword puzzles, jumbled words and an on line word search game.

2. FindSt Patrick's Day Word Searches at Kids.Creativity
The site at kiscreativity.com offers a St Patrick's Day word search with 2 color schemes. It also provides an answer key for parents to use. The direct link to the word search is found at http://kids.creativity-portal.com/d/projects/puzzles/stpatricks-day-wordsearch.shtml

3. Try Activity Village for St Patrick's Day Word Searches
Two St Patrick's Day word searches are found at ActivityVillage.co.uk. In addition to these printable activities, the site also offers mazes and cryptograms for kids. The activities for St Patrick's Day are found here.
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/st_patricks_day_word_search_puzzles.htm
Activity Village's St Patrick's Day word searches are pdf files so users will need an adobe reader to access the files.

4. Make your own St Patrick's Day Word Search
At Awesome Clip Art for kids gives parents a chance to enter the words you want on the St Patrick's Day word search for kids. Using the site ge pahere, parents enter the words and print the sheet for your child to enjoy for St Patrick's Day.

5. Another excellent web site for parents looking for St Patrick's Day printable activities is Alphabet Soup. At Alphabet-soup.net parents can find 25 different St Patrick's Day activities. There are two choices of word searches on this site, with one being a shaped cross word search.

Printable St Patrick's Day activities and St Patrick's Day word search puzzles are fun family activities. Teach your children typical St Patrick's Day terms and about the luck of the Irish with word searches and other printable activities.

SOURCES: www.kaboose.com