St Patrick’s Day Chinese Activities for Kids
Fast Fact about St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s day started as a religious holiday and now is a cultural celebration. It is a national holiday in both Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Add St. Patrick’s Day Chinese Activities for kids to this month’s learning and lead kids to explore St Patrick’s Day and Ireland.
Chinese Expressions You can Use about St. Patrick’s Day
Chinese Notes: English-PinYin-Chinese Traditional|Simplified (when there is a variation)
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Ireland Ài’ ěr lán 愛爾蘭|爱尔兰
Ireland is known as the Emerald Island.
The name has something to do with Ireland’s resplendent greenery. You can follow Joy Sun Bear’s adventure to Ireland. Joy shares Irish culture, hands-on activity resources, and recipes for Irish soda bread!
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Shamrock zhà jiāng cǎo 醡漿草 | 醡浆草
Shamrock is a three-leaf clover. Kids will have fun finding shamrocks with four leaves.
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A four-leaf clover xìng yùn cǎois 幸運草 |幸运草 is considered good luck.
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Leprechauns can be called as lǜs è xiǎo yāo jing 綠色小妖精 | 绿色小妖精
For younger kids, you can use a less “scary” term for Leprechauns: Lǜsè xiǎo jīnglíng 綠色小精靈 | 绿色小精灵
Leprechauns are like a fairy and they are shoemakers according to the legend. Leprechauns are mischievous and are tricksters. Leprechauns are often associated with wealth according to folktale and each of them has a pot of gold.
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Pot of Gold & Rainbows yī tǒng jīn cǎi hóng 一桶金 彩虹
It’s said that every Leprechaun has a pot of gold and they hide the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Do you want to count all the gold coins jīn bì 金币 in the pot of gold in Chinese?
Play and Learn: St Patrick’s Day Number Word (1-10) Activities. simplified Chinese version
Chinese Activities for St Patrick’s Day
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St Patrick’s Day Chinese Counting
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Clovers
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Gold coins
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St Patrick’s Day Chinese Colors
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Rainbow
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Cotton Ball Colors
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Bilingual Storytime in English and Mandarin featuring Leprechaun
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St Patrick’s Day Chinese Geography
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Ireland (audio in English)
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Video: See the countries in Europe on a map. Let’s see where Ireland is.
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St Patrick’s Day Word posters.
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Play Book: St. Patrick’s Day Number Word Activities (1-10). traditional Chinese version
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Happy St Patrick’s Day! How many 4-leaf clovers have you found?
