Fun and Festive St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Corporate Employees and Team Members

When March 17th, 2024 rolls around, everyone wants to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and connect with their Irish side. If you’re looking for fun and festive ways to enjoy this lively holiday, there are plenty of fantastic St. Patrick’s Day activities. From dressing up in green outfits and hosting parties to attending parades and pub crawls, you can find an activity to match your interests.

If you want to decorate for the holiday, consider hanging shamrocks and leprechaun hats around your office. You can also make St. Patrick’s Day crafts with your employees and team members, like rainbow art, printable leprechaun hats, and DIY pot of gold projects. These fun craft activities will get you ready to celebrate in Irish style.

Plan festive music and games to liven up your St. Patrick’s Day gathering. Play Irish tunes in the background as your guests compete in potato sack races, Irish trivia, or scavenger hunts around the party area. Fun and funny St. Patrick’s Day games are perfect for everyone, including employees, team members, and adults.

Finally, serve up some traditional Irish food and beverages. Classics like Irish soda bread, corned beef, cabbage, or shepherd’s pie make perfect St. Patrick’s Day fare. And you can’t forget green beer, Irish coffees for the adults, and Shamrock Shakes for the wee ones!

With fabulous decorations, activities, music, food, gifts, promotional products and drinks, you’ll surely have an extra luck o’ the Irish this March 17th. Any entertaining St. Patrick’s Day activities will show your Irish spirit and make for a fun time for all!

Fun St. Patrick’s Day Activities

Shamrock crafts

Shamrock crafts are a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Having employees decorate paper or felt shamrocks by gluing on sequins, puffballs, or beads develops their fine motor skills. They can attach a magnet to display them on the fridge or use a hole punch and string to hang them. Patrick’s Day crafts around the office. The hands-on process of shamrock crafting and the festive result will make for a merry activity.

Leprechaun scavenger hunt

A little leprechaun Patrick’s day scavenger hunt engages imagination along with energy and movement. Team Leaders can leave clues to a pot of gold treasure, rainbow treats, a stuffed leprechaun doll, or even play money. Team Members will be excited, searching high and low around the office to solve the clues and find what the sneaky leprechaun left behind. This St. Patrick’s Day activity can occupy employees’ minds and bodies for hours of enriching fun.

Rainbow slime making

Making rainbow slime allows for sensory play that captures the St. Patrick’s Day spirit. Adding a few drops of green food coloring before letting them swirl in colors like red, orange, yellow, blue, and purple teaches color identification. They’ll love watching DIY slime transform into brilliant rainbow streaks. The mesmerizing, gooey result produces smiles along with learning. Rainbow Slime offers hours of glittery entertainment.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Getting permits and permissions

Having the proper permits and permissions is key to staging your St. Patrick’s Day parade safely and legally. Be sure to review your city’s requirements around event permits, road closure authorizations, insurance waivers, and application deadlines. Submit your paperwork well in advance so there is adequate time for approvals. Moving forward without the necessary permits risks parade disruption, confusion, or even cancellation, so this should be a priority in the early planning stages.

Incorporating traditional Irish music and dance

An authentic St. Patrick’s Day parade should highlight Irish culture through traditional music and dance. Consider hiring local Irish dance schools to have students perform jigs, reels, and other high-energy dance numbers along the parade route. The intricate footwork and rhythmic steps are sure to impress spectators. Pipe and drum bands also make for great additions with their Celtic sound, regalia, and instruments like bagpipes and drums. Work with Irish cultural organizations in your area to recruit appropriate music and dance participants that align with St. Patrick’s Day traditions.

Other Logistics

From parade floats, marshals, and participant costumes to candy throwing, volunteers, and more, the logistics of pulling off a smooth St. Patrick’s Day parade are complex. Be sure to tend to details like appointing parade marshals to oversee line-up and order, arranging vehicles and floats for key dignitaries, ordering Irish-themed supplies for participants, designating clean-up crews, and recruiting plenty of volunteers for tasks like crowd control and candy throwing. Meticulous planning is required for success!

St. Patrick’s Day Crafts

DIY four-leaf clover decorations

A fun yet simple St Patrick’s Day activity is making DIY four-leaf clover decorations. Print free printable four-leaf clover templates online and have employees color them in green. Then, use scissors to cut them out and tape gold coin chocolate in the center as the clover “pot of gold.” These cute St. Patrick’s Day crafts make for perfect homemade decorations to display.

Lucky charm bracelets

Creating lucky charm bracelets is one of St. Patrick’s day activities. Have team members thread colorful beads, small buttons, and plastic charms shaped like four-leaf clovers or rainbows onto elastic cords or strings. Tie it into a bracelet size that fits their wrist when done. They’ll love styling while showing Irish pride with these easy DIY lucky charm bracelets.

Pot of gold papercraft

Follow a simple paper folding craft tutorial to make mini pots of gold filled with gold coins for St. Patrick’s Day. All it takes is some green, yellow, orange, and gold paper and basic craft supplies like glue and scissors. Employees can also add rainbows, clouds, shamrocks, and other embellishments. These cute 3D pots of gold will look lovely hung around the office in honor of Ireland’s patron saint day!

Fun St. Patrick’s Day Games

Minute to Win It games with a St. Patrick’s Day twist

Minute to Win It games with a St. Patrick’s Day twist put a holiday spin on the popular timed challenges. Have your employees attempt to stack 20 chocolate gold coins in under a minute, transport Lucky Charms marshmallows using only a spoon held in their mouth across the room, or bounce a ping pong “potato” into a Solo cup “pot”. Getting creative with green, shamrock, and rainbow themes when adapting Minute to Win It games makes for lively Irish competition.

St. Patrick’s Day bingo cards

St. Patrick’s Day bingo cards engage the team member in this classic game with a fresh take. Make bingo cards filled with Irish-inspired objects like shillelaghs, Blarney stones, harps, Leprechauns, and pots of gold instead of the typical letter and number grids. Call out themed descriptors as players dab their cards. The first to get 5 in a row wins! This St. Paddy’s Day twist on an old favorite delivers endless entertainment.

Leprechaun treasure hunt

Send employees on a magical Leprechaun treasure hunt on March 17th for mythological fun. Leave a “trail of gold” made from construction paper coins leading to where you’ve stashed a pot filled with treats and toys for them to find at the end! Or use clever clues and riddles pointing seekers to the prize. From rainbow snacks to shiny new pennies, the treasure possibilities are endless with this engaging St. Patrick’s Day activity.

Get Lucky with Festive Holiday Fun This March 17th, 2024

This St. Patrick’s Day, skip the crowded bars and create magic at the office with these fun holiday activities. From leprechaun traps to rainbow crafts, you now have everything you need to throw an Irish party that makes memories.

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St. Patrick’s Day only comes once a year, so make sure you celebrate in style with clever party activities. Our Lucky Party Planner takes the guesswork out of planning so you can relax and enjoy the Irish fun. With many ideas for decor, food, drinks, and entertainment, throwing a stellar St. Paddy’s Day bash is as easy as a pot o’ gold!

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