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St. Patrick’s Day will be here before you know it. You don’t need to be Irish to have fun and celebrate. Kids will have so much fun with this! There are so many great St. Patrick’s Day Crafts Activities for tweens and even some teens will enjoy them too.

My kids are getting older. They don’t want to paint leprechaun beards with a fork or make handprint rainbows. So I searched the internet to find some ideas that older elementary kids (a.k.a. tweens) would enjoy. I compiled a list of great St. Partick’s Day activities for tweens (and maybe even teens). Let’s take a look.

St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Tweens (Maybe Even Teens)

St. Patrick’s Day Arts and Crafts for Tweens

Many of the projects use the terms shamrock and four-leaf clover interchangeably. I read a comment on one of the projects that stated it was not a shamrock but a clover. I decided to look this up.

According to ForRent.com, the shamrock is a three-leaf clover used as a symbol of the Trinity by St. Patrick. The four-leaf clover is from the white clover which sometimes will produce a four-leaf clover. A shamrock does not have four leaves. In case you were dying to know.

Mosaic Paper Shamrocks:

I found this craft over at Happiness is Homemade. It is simple but enjoyable for older kids.

All you need is:

• a shamrock cut out of green cardstock
• small squares in a variety of pretty green paper (or fabric)

Kids glue the squares on the shamrock to make this pretty craft. It is a pretty, yet simple, St. Patrick’s Day activity for tweens.

Celtic Knot:

If your kids like to draw, here is a tutorial put out by Circle Line Art School on YouTube. You can learn how to draw a Celtic Knot with the step-by-step instructions provided in this video. The Celtic Knot would make a pretty design for a card or border. I think this is one of the St. Patrick’s Day activities for tweens that even teens will enjoy.

Clover Button Art:

You can find the tutorial for this project at Fleece Fun. It is similar to the Mosaic Paper Shamrocks. For this project, however, it is done on canvas with buttons and beads.

Kids use various green buttons and little beads and hot glue them in an outline of clover on a piece of canvas. It is gorgeous!

To modify this project, you could do it on a sturdy piece of poster board or card stock and frame it. It would look pretty hanging up. I can’t imagine that this St. Patrick’s day activity wouldn’t appeal to both tweens and teens. Out of all the St. Patrick’s Day activities for tweens, this one is my favorite. I want to make it!

DIY Felt Shamrocks:

At Positively Splendid, I found this cute craft. It is very versatile. You can make these felt shamrocks for wreaths, centerpieces, decorations on other projects, or pretty garland. I could see hot gluing the shamrocks onto magnets or using them to make pretty pins to wear.

For this project, kids cut the four clover-leaf shapes out of felt. If you want, you can cut out stems, too. Folding the leaves in half, sew them together at the bottom. You will have each leaf lined up one after the other on the string. You will want to tie it off in a circle. Spread the leaves apart, and you are done.

Pot of Gold:

The 36th Avenue has its own take on this craft. Like many others, they use a terracotta pot, paint, glitter, Mod Podge, and Rolo candies.

In this craft, kids paint their pots with black acrylic paint. Next, make a cut-out of a shamrock. It will be your stencil. Take your stencil and tape it on the side of the pot. Fill your shamrock with Mod Podge. Sprinkle it with gold glitter. When it is dry, remove the stencil.

Next, you will want to spread Mod Podge on the rim of your pot. Sprinkle it with gold glitter. Let it dry. When everything is dry, fill the pot with Rolo candy.

Honestly, for St. Patrick’s Day activities for tweens, this one is very versatile. Kids don’t need to paint it as instructed. They can make their own unique designs if they’d like.

St. Patrick’s Day Actvities for Tweens: Cooking Activities

Tweens and Teens will enjoy getting in the kitchen to make some St. Patrick’s Day goodies. Here are a few suggestions of things kids may enjoy.

Irish Stew and Celtic Trinity Knots:

You can find this recipe over at Jo and Sue. I think this recipe would be a fabulous way for kids to learn many different cooking techniques. It also shows the kids all that goes into making a meal from scratch.

After the hard work that goes into making the stew, the Celtic Trinity Knots are much easier to make. Kids will have fun making them.

Irish Soda Bread:

If you don’t feel like making Celtic Knots, Irish Soda Bread is a great alternative. It is a hardy bread to go with the stew. This delicious recipe is from Saving Dollars and Sense.

Peek-a-Boo St. Patrick’s Day Cake:

I found this recipe at Mom Loves Baking. It is so much fun. It looks like a chocolate cake until you cut into it. Rainbow shamrocks fill the center of the cake. What a fun idea!

My kids are dying to try to make this cake. Check back soon. We will be making it, and I will share how it goes making it with kids.

+++Related: St. Patrick’s Day Surprise Cake

St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Tweens: STEM Activities

Over at Little Bins, Little Hands, she has a list of different STEM challenges for kids. There is quite a variety of activities that can relate to St. Patrick’s Day. The Leprechaun Traps sounds like a lot of fun. Older kids could really get into that.

Leprechaun Boogers:

Any age can enjoy slime. This is a fluffy slime recipe that uses shaving cream and saline solution. It is a fun way to round out a day of St. Patrick’s Day fun!

St. Patrick’s Day can be fun for kids of all ages. I put together this collection of St. Patrick’s Day activities for tweens, so your older kids can have some fun too. There are plenty of crafts, cooking ideas, and STEM fun to make it a day to remember. You could extend it over a week, too. Give some of these activities a try!

Over at My Teaching Library, they have educational resources for St. Patrick’s Day for a variety of ages. Check it out HERE.

Happy Homeschooling!