Large Print St. Patrick’s Day Word Search

Big, bold letters and fewer, longer words: an easier-on-the-eyes St. Patrick’s Day word search. Shamrocks, rainbows and a leprechaun guarding his pot of gold. St. Patrick’s Day falls on March 17 and honors Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, who by legend used the three-leaf shamrock to teach. Today it means green clothes, Irish music on the fiddle and the harp, and big parades; New York has marched since the 1700s and Chicago dyes its river green.

The large print edition uses an 11×11 grid that fills a letter-size page, and words only run across, down or diagonally down.

All 20 words in this theme: Shamrock, Leprechaun, Rainbow, Green, Lucky, Clover, Parade, Ireland, Harp, Fiddle, Horseshoe, Coins, Bagpipes, Dancing, Celtic, Cabbage, Emerald, Dublin, Limerick, Blarney.

Questions to share while solving, for activity groups, memory care or a visit with family:

• Did your family have Irish roots, or did you celebrate anyway?
• Did you ever get pinched for not wearing green?
• Have you seen a St. Patrick’s Day parade? Where?
• Did you ever find a four-leaf clover?
• What Irish song or tune do you know?

Activity tip: Play some gentle Irish fiddle or harp music while people solve, and give a gold-wrapped chocolate coin to everyone who finishes, like a leprechaun’s reward.