St. Patrick’s Day Minute To Win It Ideas

Have you ever played Minute To Win It games? They are always a hit with the kids and adults alike! I have 5 St. Patrick’s Day Minute To Win It Ideas that are perfect to use in your classroom!

Minute To Win It Games are perfect for the classroom. You can break students up into 5 groups and have them work together and take turns playing the games, and then all rotate. Or you can play as a class. Split our students into 2 groups and choose a student or a few to come up and play each of the games against each other.

These games have other great benefits too like working on fine motor skills, counting, sorting, eye hand coordination, social skills, and cognitive skills. This makes it a great addition to your classroom to play on St. Patrick’s Day, before your Spring Break, or for a Fun Friday activity!

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Lucky Charms

Supplies you’ll need

A bowl, Lucky Charms cereal, kids tweezers or kitchen tongs and additional container to put the marshmallows in.

To Play

The student will sift through and pick out all of the marshmallows from a bowl of Lucky Charms using a pair of kids tweezer or tongs. At the end of the minute, count how many marshmallows they were able to find.

Pot Of Gold

Supplies you’ll need

5 pennies and a popsicle stick.

To Play

The student will need 5 pennies. The student will carefully stack the 5 pennies on the end of a popsicle stick. They will then try and walk across the room without dropping the pennies.

For older kids or adults, add some extra pennies.

End Of The Rainbow

Supplies You’ll Need

A pile of Fruit Loops cereal and a pipe cleaner.

To Play

The students will try to thread the cereal onto the pipe cleaner in a minute creating a rainbow.

For older kids or adults, have them create the rainbow only using one hand.

Gold Coin Stack

Supplies You’ll Need

25 plastic gold coins or chocolate coins. -You can usually find these at Dollar Tree or Oriental Trading as well.

To Play

Give the student 25 gold coins. See if they can stack them all without falling in one minute.

For older kids or adults, have them stack the coins only using one hand.

Lucky Puzzles

Supplies You’ll Need

A Lucky Charms cereal box – I happened to find this fun St. Patrick’s Day themed box at Target.

To Play

For this game, you’ll need to cut up the Lucky Charms box. You’ll want to use the front of the box, and cut it into up into several squares. Have your students see if they can put the “puzzle” back together in one minute.

For older kids or adults, cut up both the front and the back of the box and have them put both “puzzles” together in a minute.

I hope your students enjoy playing these games as much as mine do. Are there any other St. Patrick’s Day activities that you enjoying doing in the classroom?

If you’re looking for more Minute to Win It games, click here to see our fall minute to win it game idea, winter minute to win it ideas here and here for our spring minute to win it game ideas. We also share donut minute to win it games to play here. 

Let us know if you have any other fun games you like to play with your class in the comments below!

See you next time!

Jenette