Build a Leprechaun House St. Patrick's Day Pop Up Crafts and Writing Activities

What is even better than building a leprechaun trap? Building a leprechaun house!

This engaging St. Patrick's Day writing craftivity will allow students to design rooms in a leprechaun home. Your students will love coloring, cutting, and gluing pieces to make rooms in their very own home for a leprechaun.

After printing the different backgrounds and furniture pages on cardstock, students can design the rooms for their leprechaun homes. After each room they design, students can use the templates provided in this resource to write a procedural, informative, or persuasive writing. They can write about how they designed the room, write facts about what things are in their room, or write a letter to the leprechaun convincing the leprechaun that they should live there with details about why the leprechaun would like the room they designed. Writing templates are included with and without traceable sentence starters.

This resource can also be used as a whole class activity for St. Patrick's Day instead of leprechaun traps. Students can design rooms to be left out for St. Patrick's Day for the leprechauns to visit. As their teacher, you can sneakily add green glitter, gold coins, and more to make them think that the leprechaun visited the homes they designed.

There are five "leprechaun home" rooms included in this resource. Students can design a leprechaun living room, kitchen, bedroom, front yard, and backyard. Students can design all five or you can give students different rooms to design and set up a few houses for St. Patrick's Day shenanigans!

PLEASE NOTE: The leprechaun building pieces and backgrounds work best if printed on cardstock or construction paper for stability. Students can cut down any of the pieces needed to assemble their rooms to their liking. 

Students will need grade level appropriate fine motor/scissor skills for this activity.