Discusses the history of St. Patrick's Day, leprechauns, traditions, and presents links to St. Patrick's Day arts and crafts lessons.

What do you know about St. Patrick's Day? This site offers a brief but informative description of this famous saint. Students and teachers will benefit from this information.

Kids learn about Saint Patrick's Day. The history and facts about this holiday which celebrates a missionary who brought Christianity to Ireland.

Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.

In this lesson, 5th graders will explain the meaning of a text and its genre, summarize it, and draw conclusions. They work with a book called The Leprechaun Companion which is a cross between informational and literary text.