St. Patrick’s Day Craft – Pieces of Gold

What truly matters to your students? The Pieces of Gold St. Patrick’s Day Craft gives them a chance to pause, reflect, and put their thoughts into words. Students create a simple craft where each “piece of gold” represents something meaningful in their lives, helping them think beyond surface-level answers.

This activity works well throughout March and pairs nicely with growth mindset lessons, classroom community building, or social-emotional learning discussions. It’s flexible enough to fit into different schedules and routines.

While the Pieces of Gold craft can be used as a “growing craftivity” that students add to over multiple days, it can just as easily be completed in a single class period. When finished, it becomes a thoughtful keepsake that families enjoy seeing, and students feel proud to share.

What does this St. Patrick’s Day Craft Include?

The St. Patrick’s Day Pieces of Gold Craft includes all that you need for a successful classroom activity. There are:

• Teacher Notes with anchor chart ideas and a list of what students might value.
• A graphic organizer where students list the people, things, and abilities they value the most.
• A variety of craft components, including: pots, coins, rainbows, clouds, sun, and raindrops. The craft is designed to fit on a 12×18 piece of paper. Students can be creative in their selection and arrangement of the components.

Suggestions on How to Use the St. Patrick’s Day Craft

This St. Patrick’s Day Craft is easy and fun to use with your students. Use all or some of the suggestions below.

☘ Brainstorm “pieces of gold” with students

Students create a class anchor chart where they share what they value. Focus on ideas from home or from school.

In fact, create a classroom anchor chart and add to it daily throughout March.

You can use the pieces of the craftivity on the anchor chart AND on student pages.

☘ Fill out a Graphic Organizer

Allow students to organize their ideas with the included graphic organizer. Students list the pieces of gold in their lives and organize them by people, things, and abilities.

The bottom sentence frame allows students to share what they value the most.

☘ Choose Picture Components

One of the things that I love about this St. Patrick’s Day craft is that no two pictures will look the same. While they all have similar components, students can choose which components they want to include and how to arrange them.

These are two examples of how to lay out the pieces. You can see additional layout examples in other photos.

☘ Color, Cut, Glue

The final step in the process is to cut out the pieces, color them, and glue them down onto a piece of paper.

Throughout the month, have students select a coin and add it to their picture. The coins can be layered onto each other and placed around the pot.

How to Purchase the Pieces of Gold Craftivity

The Pieces of Gold Craftivity can be purchased on my website or on Teachers Pay Teachers.