21+ Fun & Cheap St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Activities for Kids
Looking for ways to make St. Patrick’s Day extra magical for your kids? These sensory activities are packed with fun, learning, and a whole lot of green! They are perfect for kids, toddlers, and preschool that can be done at home or in the classroom!

St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect excuse to dive into some hands-on, festive fun with your little ones! From squishy sensory bins to glittery crafts, these 21+ activities are all about exploring textures, colors, and creativity while celebrating the holiday. Whether you’re on the hunt for leprechaun gold, building rainbows, or creating shamrock-inspired masterpieces, these ideas will keep your kids entertained, learning, and smiling all day long.
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St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin (Searching for Gold!)
Little ones will love digging through spilt peas finding gold and using rainbow pipe cleaners with mini pots to create their on rainbow in this St. Patty’s Day sensory tub!

Rainbow Color Sorting Sensory Bin for Toddlers
Celebrate the luck of the Irish with this rainbow sensory bin that uses Lucky charms and Fruit loops for a full day of fun, counting, and color sorting!

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin
This sensory bin is a perfect blend of all things St. Patrick’s Day. With its 3D rainbow and green split pea filler, it’s full of fun things to experience.

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Soup
Sensory activities don’t have to be big, complicated affairs. All this one needs for tons of fun is some plastic coins, water, and green food coloring.

Easy Rainbow Clean Mud Sensory Bin
Wouldn’t it be great to get the kids to wash their hands while they play? Clean mud is perfect for that, and this rainbow clean mud sensory bin will be a hit.

Pot of Gold Glitter Slime
If there’s one sensory play item that all kids go crazy over, it’s slime. This DIY glitter gold slime is the perfect sensory plaything for St. Patrick’s Day this year.

Easy St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bottles
Sensory bottles offer multiple benefits for kids (and adults, too.) This particular bottle is filled with bright green and gold sparkly items that all carry a St. Patrick’s Day theme.

Sensory Bin Idea
Leprechauns are experts at hiding their gold, but this one might have been in a hurry. Kids will love searching for all the gold pieces in this fun, inexpensive sensory bin.

Leprechaun Slime Recipe
For another fun slime-centered activity, print up this printable right away. The DIY orange slime is perfect for giving the leprechaun hair and a beard.

Green And Gold St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin
This sensory bin is all about the green and gold colors of St. Patrick’s Day. Kids can work on fine motor skills by using tweezers or tongs to sort the colored pom poms that fill the bin.

St. Patrick’s Day Oobleck Treasure Hunt
Oobleck is a great example of a non-Newtonian fluid, which is a fluid that doesn’t follow the standard laws of physics. Kids will love hunting for gold coins in this pleasantly green oobleck.

Edible Sensory Play
While sensory bins are all about the senses, taste tends to get left out. This bin rectifies that with a fun, wibbly wobbly rainbow of gelatin playthings and gold coins.

Rainbow Play Dough Activity and Free Printables
It’s rainbows everywhere with this fun St. Patty’s Day bin. Kids will love the homemade playdough in all the colors of the rainbow, and there are all sorts of fun rainbow fillers for them to combine with the dough.

How to Make Rainbow Rice for Kids
Dyed rice is a perfect filler for almost any sensory bin, because it offers so much versatility. The colors can be customized for almost any theme, such as rainbow for St. Patrick’s Day.

3-Ingredient Shamrock Dough
This cloud dough is simply out of this world. Kids will love the fluffy, soft texture, and adults will love how easy it is to make this green-gold sensory play item.

St. Patrick’s Day Pot of Gold Sensory Bin
Hide a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow with this sensory bin. Kids will have a blast sifting through the green rice for pieces of gold under a toy rainbow.

Rainbow Sensory Bin
Perfect for toddlers or preschoolers, this sensory bin is a chance to make an easy-to-clean mess. Cut up straw sections for different-colored straws, and have the child make a rainbow from them in a fluffy cloud bed of shaving cream.

Color Sorting St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin
Here’s a perfect idea to provide sensory play, while kids also learn something. Sorting colored pom poms into matching plastic cauldrons is a great way for them to build fine motor skills while engaging in some color matching.

“Leprechaun Gold” Air-Dry Clay Gold Coins
While it’s easier to just buy plastic gold coins for kids to play with, making your own can be a rewarding experience. Kids will have fun shaping the air-dry clay, and will be so thrilled to see their own designs on the coins once they are done. These coins are perfect props for sensory bins!

St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Sensory Bag
Littles just love squishy, smooshy, messy substances. But making a sensory bag full of shamrocks and other St. Patrick’s-themed items will give them the chance to squish away without all the mess.

Festive Sensory Bin
There are loads of approaches one can take to a St. Patrick’s sensory bin. But this one adds in a fun detail, in the form of a popsicle stick DIY rainbow.

Shaving Cream Rainbow Sensory Play
Kids love getting their hands all messy with sensory play, but this idea takes things to the next level. Make a giant shaving cream rainbow on a tarp, and let them dive into the sensory experience.

With these 21+ St. Patrick’s Day sensory activities, your kids are in for an unforgettable day of play and discovery. Whether they’re scooping gold coins, crafting rainbows, or squishing shamrock slime, there’s no shortage of festive fun.
