St Patrick’s Day

Saint Patrick's Day on March 17 honors Ireland's patron saint and celebrates Irish culture in Ireland and around the world. Parades, music and green decorations are familiar parts of the festivities. Shamrocks and festival scenes offer a starting point for exploring the celebration through color. The collection includes bold shamrock and hat designs, rabbit drummers, friendly leprechauns, paper crafts and music-filled parade scenes.

Choose a difficulty

A craft-table hat or a festival dancer

Choose one large object to start, or a person surrounded by movement and decoration.

A girl dances on an outdoor stage decorated with ribbons, paper fans and a large three-leaf shamrock.

Festival dance

The dancer’s pose, clothing and stage details offer many smaller areas. Choose it for a longer picture with a person at its center.

St Patrick’s Day Dance →

Use two greens to separate hat and shamrock

Print the original line drawing linked below. The numbered areas match the color key and steps; use the colored example as a starting point, then choose your own colors if you prefer.

Digital coloring example

Light green hat with golden buckle and dark green shamrock; band, buckle center and surrounding crafts white.
A digital color suggestion, not a photograph of a printed result. Open the original line drawing to print and try your own colors.
  • 1. Light green hat
  • 2. Golden buckle
  • 3. Dark green shamrock
  1. Color the hat’s top, body and brim light green, keeping the band white.
  2. Color only the buckle frame golden yellow; leave its center white.
  3. Color the shamrock and stem dark green. Leave all other craft-table objects white.

The darker shamrock stands out from the pale hat; the white band still separates them from the brim.

More selection and activity ideas

Choose a page

Choose the large shamrock, hat or ribbon pot for broad spaces. The village, coastal castle and parade have smaller flowers, stonework, clothing and instrument details; check each page’s difficulty before choosing.

Try it together

Print a favorite picture and add your own colors and decorations. Talk about the celebration and where it is observed.

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