St. Patrick's Day

Find rhyming words that match the clues:

snake club legend March pinch parade
green shamrock saint pot leprechaun Irish

(1) A month that rhymes with parch.

(2) A holy person that rhymes with paint.

(3) A mischief-maker that rhymes with lawn.

(4) An old, old story that rhymes with send.

(5) A scaly animal that rhymes with rake.

(6) A St. Patrick’s Day color that rhymes with seen.

(7) A celebration on the street that rhymes with made.

(8) The people of Ireland who rhyme with wish.

(9) What carries the gold and rhymes with hot.

(10) What a four-leaf clover brings that rhymes with puck.

(11) It causes pain and rhymes with inch.

(12) A three-leafed plant that rhymes with lock.


Fill in the blanks below with words from this box:

Saint Patrick

Angel
Born
Captured
Ireland
Legend
Miracles
Monastery
Saint
Slave
Snakes

Saint Patrick’s Day

Celebration
Dye
Green
Parades
Pinched
Ribbons
Shamrock

Leprechauns

Eye
Fairy
Mischief
Pot of gold
Tricky
Vanish


Saint Patrick

____________ Patrick is the patron saint of ______________. According to _____________, Saint Patrick was ______________ in Britain and then _______________ by pirates and sold as a _______________ in Ireland. He escaped with the help of an _____________ and then lived in a ____________ for twelve years before going back to Ireland. When he returned to Ireland he performed many ______________. According to one myth, Saint Patrick got rid of all of the ________________ in Ireland.

St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day is a _______________ honoring Saint Patrick. People wear _____________ colored clothing and some women wear green ____________ in their hair. People who don’t wear green clothing get _______________ as a punishment. People also wear ______________, which are a symbol of Ireland. As well, there are ____________ on the streets and sometimes people ______________ the rivers green.

Leprechauns

A leprechaun is an Irish ____________. They are very ____________ and like to make ______________. If you catch a leprechaun, they can tell you where a ___________________ is. But be careful, If you take your ____________ off of them for an instant, they _________________.



KEY

Rhyming words
March
Saint
Leprechaun
Legend
Snake
Green
Parade
Irish
Pot
Club
Pinch
Shamrock

Cloze text
Saint
Ireland
Legend
Born
Captured
Slave
Angel
Monastery
Miracles
Snakes

Celebration
Green
Ribbons
Pinched
Shamrock
Parades
Dye

Fairy
Tricky
Mischief
Pot of gold
Eye
Vanish