Get ready to WOW your kids by sneaking in an EASY St Patricks Day Science with this fun Grow a Shamrock project! Kids will have fun watching a three leaf clover grow borax crystals overnight with this engaging St Patricks Day Activity for kids of all ages! Try this super simple activity with preschool, pre-k, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and kindergarten st patrick’s day.
St Patricks Day Science
Making crystals with borax is so easy and FAST! You will be able to grow your own crystals to cover your shamrock craft overnight! This Shamrock activity is such a fun saint patrick’s day activities for kids to marvel and explore science while having fun! Try this St Patricks Day science experiment with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students in March as part of your St Patricks day theme.
How to grow borax crystals
Growing borax crystals is really easy and super fast making it a great kindergarten science experiment! Let me show you how to grow crystals overnight. You will be making a super saturated solution, meaning it will hold as much of the powder as possible and still have it dissolve when it is heated. The heat makes the molecules seperate and allow it to dissolve more of the borax. As the solution cools the borax particles will seperate from the water and form crystals on the pipe cleaner shamrock.
Grow your own Crystals
To make this simple march science experiment gather up these supplies you may even have on hand already!
Materials:
- green pipe cleaners
- 3 cups of boiling water
- 9 Tablespoons Borax (found with laundry detergent)
- large jar
- popsicle stick and yarn to hang the pipe cleaners
Saint patrick’s day activities
Start by making your shamrock craft out of pipe cleaners. There are pretty to hang on mirrors, windows, or cabinet handles on their own! Twist a green pipe cleaner to make 3 loops as shown above.
Use another pipe cleaner to make the final leaf and stem, then fold the stem back up so it is thicker and to make it easier to hang your clover in the solution. Don’t forget to twist the chenille stick to secure.
Now attach a small piece of string or yarn to the four leaf clover made out of pipe cleaner
Shamrock Activity
Now boil 3 cups of water in the microwave or in a saucepan. Add to 9 Tablespoons Borax (found with laundry detergent) to the water and stir until dissolved. Pour the HOT mixture into a jar that is large enough to fit the pipe cleaner (you will need a container for each).
Kindergarten st patrick’s day
Carefully lower the shamrock project into the super saturated solution. Attach the string to the craft stick. Make sure the projet is not touching the bottom or sides of the jar, but is completely submerged. Place the jar out of the way so it can sit undisturbed overnight to grow the crystals.
You will start seeing crystals forming within an hour. But resist the urge to remove it until at least 8 hours have passed so you will have lots of shamrock crystals! When it is done, carefully pull the project up and set on a paper towel or plate to dry.
How beautiful are those crystals! Kids of all ages are impressed with this simple science project that produces such remarkable results in only a day!
You can hang your shamrock crystal project as a suncatcher to decorate your window, sliding door, mirror, or on the fridge. Just remember to keep it out of reach of pets and small children as this project is most definetly NOT edible.
Growing borax crystals is one of our favorite projects as it is so easy and we can make so many beautiful creations – one for every season and holiday!
Free St Patrick’s Day Printables
Looking for more fun, free saint patricks day printable ideas and activities for March? You will love these free resources for toddler, preschool, and kindergarten age students.:
- Hands-ton St Patrick’s Day Counting Activity with free printable
- St patrick’s day for preschoolers Cute activity pages
- Work on pre-writing skills with these cute, Free St Patrick’s Day Printables Tracing Strips
- Color by Letter St Patricks Day Worksheets
- Leprechaun Hat Letter Tracing St Patrick’s Day Printables
- Rainbow Alphabet Matching St Patrick’s Day Activities
- Use Fruit Loop cereal to make a rainbow with these St Patrick’s day Printables
- Count and Trace with this fun and free St patrick’s day preschool activities
- St Patrick’s Day Color by Number Worksheets to work on number recognition while revealing cute hidden mystery pictures
- Find the Letter St Patricks Day Worksheets
- Count to 20 Puzzles for March
- Counting to 20 Puzzles are a fun St Patrick’s Day Preschool Activities
- St Patricks Day for Kindergarten counting with ten frames
- Pot of Gold St Patrick Day Activities – working on sorting beginning letter sounds coins by the correct pot of gold letter
- I Spy St Patricks Day Printables
- St Patricks Coloring Pages
- Printable St Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt
- St. Patrick’s Day Printables Write The Room
- Clover Letter Find St Patrick’s Day Worksheets
- Clover Pattern Strips – FREE St Patrick’s Day Printables for Preschool
St patrick’s day Kindergarten
For elementary age students, check out these fun, hands-on printable activities for St Patricks Day.
- Learn about Ireland for Kids with these free printable books or these Ireland Coloring Pages to read, color, and learn!
- Pot of Gold Math St Patricks Day Activity
- Rainbow Read, Rhyme and Dab St Patricks Day Activity
- Work on early literacy skills with this Rhyming Rainbows St Patricks Day for Kindergarten
- Create-a-Word Spelling St Patricks Day Worksheets
- Work on reading comprehension with these St Patricks Day Worksheets
- St Patricks Day Math Craft
- St Patrick’s Day Color by Number Hundreds Chart
- Addition St Patrick’s Day Worksheets – add and dab the lucky clover with a cute Leprechaun
- Work on Addition within 20 with this Craft kids will make from St Patricks Day Math Worksheets
- Free st patrick day printables Addition BINGO makes practicing math FUN – print in color or black and white!
- Pot of Gold Addition Game
- St Patricks Day Addition Math Crafts for 1st Grade
- Free Printable March Writing Prompts or these calendar march writing prompts
St Patrick’s Day Activities
Looking for some cute St patricks day crafts or clever st patricks day activities, don’t miss these fun ideas:
- Super FUN Leprechaun Rocks Science Experiment
- Mr Lucky Shamrock Craft for St Patricks Day
- Color Mixing Science – St Patricks Day Activity for Preschoolers
- St Patricks Day Slime Activity for Kids
- Yarn Wrapped Rainbow Craft for Kids
- Pot of Gold Craft with fun name recognition activity
- St Patrick’s Day Color by Numbers Printable Hat
- Rainbow Handprint St Patrick’s Day Craft for Kids
- 30+ Creative St Patrick’s Day Craft for Kids
- Over 40 EPIC St Patricks Day Activities
- Pot of Gold Glitter Slime – St Patricks Day Activity
- Shamrock Craft – St Patricks Day Art Project for Kids with black glue
- 7 Cute Handprint St Patrick’s Day Crafts for Preschoolers
- Lucky Clover St Patrick’s Day Crafts for Toddlers
- Over the Rainbow St Patricks Day Handprint Craft
- St Patricks Day Science – Skittle Science Activity
- Leprechaun SLIME – St Patricks Day Activity for Preschoolers
- Rainbow Easy St Patrick’s Day Crafts
- Super Cute Hanging Rainbow St Patrick’s Day Crafts for Toddlers
- Whip up a batch of this lovely green contact solution slime
- Pick up some new favorite St patricks day books for kids
Rainbow Activities for Kids
Looking for more fun rainbow activity ideas? Check these out!
- How to Grow Rainbow Crystals EASILY at Home – Spring Science Activity
- Beautiful Rainbow Slime Activity for Kids
- Yarn Wrapped Rainbow Craft for Kids
- Rainbow in a Jar Density Experiments
- Simply Rainbow Density Experiment for springtime
- Delicious Rainbow Stem scienc with jelly beans
- Rainbow Handprint Craft
- Easy Tissue Paper Rainbow Craft for Spring
- Rainbow Toast makes a yummy snack!
- Super cute Rainbow Math with a DIY abacus activity
- Rainbow Painting with Cars Activity
- Paper Plate Rainbow Craft for Preschoolers
- Free printable Rainbow Color Matching Game
- Craft Stick Rainbow Craft
- Rainbow Rhyming Activity for Kindergarten
- Rainbow Worksheets for kids
- Free Connect the Dot Rainbow Printable for Preschoolers
- Hands-on Rainbow Math Activities for Preschoolers
- Rainbow Playdough Shape Mat
- Lots of fun ideas in this Rainbow Preschool Theme
- Rainbow Read, Rhyme and Dab St Patricks Day Activity
- Work on early literacy skills with this Rhyming Rainbows St Patricks Day for Kindergarten
Or take a peak at this weeks worth of activities in our St Patrick’s Theme , this St Patrick’s Day theme Preschool, or all our ideas to celebrate with st patrick’s day activities for kids of all ages!