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Our Free Printable Build St. Patrick Template is a fun and easy St. Patrick’s Day craft for kids!
This printable allows children to create their own paper St. Patrick by cutting out and assembling the pieces. It’s a great hands-on activity for home, school, or Sunday school lessons.
Keep reading to grab your free template and learn more about this engaging craft!
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Free Printable Build St. Patrick Template:
St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect time for festive crafts, and what better way to celebrate than by creating your own St. Patrick?
Our Free Printable Build St. Patrick template makes it easy for kids to cut, paste, and assemble the Patron Saint of Ireland.
If you are a regular on The Purple Pumpkin Blog, you’ll notice that our buildable characters have a cute, chubby style. Our St. Patrick is taller than [most of] our other characters.
Check out our other Free Printables for St. Patrick’s Day, including Build a Leprechaun and a St. Patrick’s Day Olaf for fans of Disney’s Frozen!
Our Free Printable Buildable Characters are an excellent activity for kids of all ages, whether at home, at an activity group or club, during homeschooling, or in the classroom.
Papercrafts like our cute buildables help kids with their cutting and pasting skills. They can be creative with other materials, such as sticking on pieces of fabric or sequins or using glitter glue.
What Is In The St. Patrick’s Printable Template?
Your full-color download includes all the pieces to assemble a St. Patrick around 7″/18 cm tall.
- St. Patrick: Head and body combined, beard, mitre (hat), arms, vestment and alb/cassock combined, and shoes.
- Accessories: Crozier (staff), shamrock, and snake.
Check out the Full Printable Build St. Patrick Activity Pack in the Purple Pumpkin Printables shop. More details are below.
Full St. Patrick Activity Pack
Want more activities for your St. Patrick’s Day celebrations? Our full printable pack includes:
- A larger full-color template makes a paper St. Patrick approximately 15″/40cm.
- Black-and-white version to customize with crayons, pencils, or markers.
- Additional pieces include vestments with and without shamrocks and albs, which can be combined. The arms with and without vestment sleeves. Use the black-and-white versions to design patterns on the vestments and snakes.
- Character sheet of eight different ways to build your St. Patrick!
- A St. Patrick fact sheet to teach kids about this famous Patron Saint of Ireland.
- Ten Full-Color Posters: Perfect for decorating classrooms or learning spaces.
- Ten Coloring Pages: Matching the posters. Great for extra creativity.
- Buy the complete printable pack here: Printable Build St. Patrick Activity Pack.
Who Was St. Patrick?
- Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century.
- Kidnapped and taken to Ireland as a slave at 16, where he worked as a shepherd.
- Escaped and later returned to Ireland as a missionary.
- Known for spreading Christianity throughout Ireland.
- Legend says he used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- Credited with driving snakes out of Ireland (a popular myth!).
- His feast day, St. Patrick’s Day, is celebrated on March 17th.
How To Use the Build a St. Patrick Printable
- Download the PDF file at the end of this post and print as many copies as you need onto white (printer) paper. For best results, use good quality, thick/heavy paper.
- Alternatively, you can use the pieces as a template to trace onto coloured paper or card stock and build the character.
- Print the free printable at home, school, work, or a Print Shop, then cut the pieces out with scissors.
- The printables are suitable for children of all ages; however, some may need help cutting.
- Once cut, arrange the pieces to determine where everything goes before sticking them in place with a glue stick or sticky tape.
- We like using this roller glue because it is easy to use and has less sticky mess!
Craft Projects Using our Free Printable St. Patrick Template
- Adding Dimension: Mount the cutouts onto larger construction paper and embellish them with other craft materials, such as glitter, craft foam, or tissue paper. This is a perfect activity for art class.
- Laminating: This fun craft is still possible for tiny kids who can’t yet use scissors! Use a laminator to laminate the printable and cut out each shape, leaving a slight margin around them. Place Velcro Dots so the character can be assembled without cutting or gluing.
- Moveable Figure: Construct the character using split pins/brads instead of glue to make it moveable.
- Everybody Loves Puppets: Grab some popsicle sticks to make little puppets for role-playing or storytelling.
- Festive Decorations: Attach the printed characters to ribbon or string and hang them as bunting. They would make excellent decorations for a party or around your classroom. For a neater finish, add colored paper to the back of each one.
- Mobile: Similar to the previous idea, assemble several characters and glue them back to back with some ribbon in between. Hang them at different lengths on a wire hanger for a cute decoration.
Roll-A-St. Patrick Game
- This idea is based on the classic dice game and is so much fun to play!
- To set up, print and cut enough St. Patrick pieces for each player and assign each piece a number.
- Depending on the number of pieces, you may need to use one or two dice or combine pieces so that each has a corresponding number.
- After rolling the die, the player picks up the corresponding piece to build their Saint Patrick.
- If players roll a number for a piece they already have, they skip their turn.
- The winner is the first player to collect all the parts and assemble them!
Other Buildable Characters!
We have lots of other buildable characters that you may like to download:
Free Printable Build St. Patrick Download
This free printable Build St. Patrick craft is a fantastic way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day while encouraging creativity and learning. Download the template below and start crafting today!
Looking for more? Our expanded pack includes additional pieces, a larger format, full-color and black-and-white options, coloring pages, a fact sheet, and a St. Patrick’s Day poster—available now in our store!
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Anonymous
March 15, 2025 @ 6:58 pm
Thank you
Anonymous
March 13, 2025 @ 6:23 pm
I think the download link is broken.
Michelle Ordever
March 14, 2025 @ 2:51 pm
All fixed!