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7 St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It Games (Supplies from Dollar Tree)

Looking for classroom, youth group, and at-home kids’ St. Patrick's Day fun? Check out these St. Patrick's Day Minute to Win It Games.

Want to do something fun for St. Patrick’s Day this year?

two girls with funny St. Paddy's Day glasses, smiling, text overlay "St. Patrick's Minute to Win It Games for kids and teens"

Surprise your kids, teens, and students with some minute-to-win-it games for kids for St. Patrick’s Day (you could even use them to throw a St. Patrick's Day party!).

St. Patrick's Day Minute to Win It Games

Rainbows, leprechauns, gold coins…I just love a little bit of magic, which is what you’ll find in these silly St. Paddy’s Day Minute to Win It games.

Hint: the timer in each photo is this one.

1. Rainbow Jelly Bean Bucket Brigade

Supplies: jelly beans, small red cups (or large ones – your choice of how hard you’d like to make it), and a timer

package of Jelly Belly bean flops, timer set at 1 minute, and stack of mini red cups

This makes a great St. Patrick’s Day youth group game!

The idea is to get the most amount of jelly beans in the last red cup at the end of a long line of people.

Each group starts with a pile of jelly beans, and they must try and transport as many as possible down the line all the way to the end in 60 seconds…the catch?

They can only transport them by tossing the jelly beans up in the air, and the next person catching as many as they can using their own cup.

Will they try to do the whole pile at once? Will they try to do 1-2 at a time?

Who knows.

2. Lucky Charms Stockpile

Supplies: Lucky Charms cereal, kitchen tongs, large cardboard box/container, blindfold (optional), and a timer

timer at 1 minute, black bucket, silver tongs, and small container of Lucky Charms cereal

Scatter the Lucky Charms inside a box or large container people can’t easily see into.

Using a pair of kitchen tongs, students must attempt to locate as many Lucky Charms marshmallows as possible in 60 seconds.

The person with the most Lucky Charms marshmallows after 60 seconds, wins.

3. Gold Coin Run

Supplies: gold coins (plastic ones, chocolate ones – whatever kind you can find), masking tape, a car race track for each person, and a timer

package of gold coins, masking tape, two bright orange race track segments, and a timer set at 1 minute

Tape a finish line across the floor a few feet away from where students will start.  

Label each gold coin with a marker (1, 2, 3, etc.).

Hand a car track and one gold coin to each person participating in the race.

Kids get 60 seconds to try and roll their coin down the track and over the finish line, successfully. They can make multiple attempts.

4. Hands Off Me Lucky Charms

Supplies: Lucky Charms cereal, kitchen tongs (for each player), a large cardboard box/container, a little container for each player, and a timer

black bucket, timer, Lucky Charms container, three smaller containers, and silver tongs

Students are to stockpile as many Lucky Charms marshmallows as possible…whether by blindly getting them out of a bucket/container with tongs or by stealing them from another player.

Each player will need their own little container and their own pair of tongs.

Set the timer for 60 seconds, and the person who has the most marshmallows at the end wins!

5. The Impossible Leprechaun Bounce Game (almost)

Supplies: green bucket or leprechaun hat or green box with a significant opening, pencil erasers, and a timer

big green leprechaun hat, timer set to 1 minute, and container of colorful pencil eraser tops

This is actually much more difficult than it looks…but not impossible!

Leprechauns dash and bounce and erratically hop around – and so do pencil erasers when you throw them down on a hard surface.

Your students’ challenge is to bounce as many of the erasers off of a table surface and into the leprechaun hat/box/bucket as possible.

It’ll look like they’re actually chasing little leprechauns with how wildly these erasers bounce around!

Whoever gets the most (or any!) in 60 seconds, wins.

Hint: if you want everyone to do this challenge at the same time? You can just divvy up the erasers by color, so that each person has their own color to track.

6. Bounce a Leprechaun the Furthest

Supplies: leprechaun figure (or something representing a leprechaun, like a green brick building block), lots of rubber bands, container lid, and a timer

little figurine wrapped in lots of rubber bands, next to rubber bands, container lid, and timer

Each person gets to wrap their “leprechaun” in as many rubber bands as they possibly can in 60 seconds. The goal is to make him as bouncy as possible!

Then, they compete to see whose leprechaun bounces the highest. Each person must bounce their leprechaun off of the container lid, and see how far it bounces off of the lid (the direction doesn’t matter).

Whoever bounces their leprechaun the furthest from the middle of the container lid, wins.

7. Gold Coin Catapult

Supplies needed: homemade catapult (big popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and an empty bottle cap), leprechaun hat or empty pot of gold, and a pile of gold coins

gold coins, timer for 1 minute, homemade catapult and green plastic leprechaun pot on table

The leprechaun hat or empty pot of gold is the target here.

Make the homemade catapult. 

Students will spend 60 seconds in a team (each taking turns), or individually to see how many pieces of candy they can get into the leprechaun hat by catapult.

The team/individual who gets the most after 60 seconds, wins.

Whether you're throwing a St. Patrick's Day party and need some games, or just want to reward your students with some fun, I hope you've found what you were looking for. Let me know how it goes in the comments below!

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Amanda L. Grossman is a writer and Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI®), a 2017 Plutus Foundation Grant Recipient, and founder of Money Prodigy. Her money work has been featured on Experian, GoBankingRates, PT Money, CA.gov, Rockstar Finance, the Houston Chronicle, and Colonial Life. Amanda is the founder and CEO of Frugal Confessions, LLC. Read more here or on LinkedIn.