St. Patrick’s Day can be described with lots of great
vocabulary words which can be included in St. Patrick’s
Day Limerick. These words/terms include:
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Ireland
green
leprechaun
March
rainbow
lucky
gold
clover
Saint
Patrick
Irish
holiday
limerick
pot-of-gold
four-leafed-clover
parade
shamrock
wish
shillelagh
blarney
“May your troubles be less
and your
blessings be more
and nothing but happiness
come through the door.”
—An Irish Blessing
This is a fill-in-the-blank activity for St. Patrick
s Day: Choose
one of the 14 alphabetical thematic words below for each blank to create an Irish
sentence which will form a story. Word bank is: banshee, blarney, boondoggle, boycott,
brogue, donnybrook, leprechaun, limerick, Saint Patrick, scone, shamrock, shillelagh,
shimmer, smithereens, stew, stout, sweekstakes, tanistry. (ANSWERS are at the
bottom of this page.)
Story Two:
For the elaborate coronation, the prince wore a robe stitched with an enormous
green _____ (1). He became king by law of _____ (2). After the ceremony, while he was
eating his delicious _____ (3), he became enraged. He yelled like a _____ (4) in his
thick _____ (5) at the small _____ (6) because he kept chanting an
inappropriate _____ (7). Furious, he picked up a heavy _____ (8) and smashed
to _____ (9) an entire glass pitcher of dark brown _____ (10). Suddenly, a fight started!
Even incantations and prayers to _____ (11) could not quell the _____ (12). Once the
free-for-all got under control, the new king declared that in the future, he and his
subjects would _____ (13) all feasts. You don
t believe any of
this _____ (14), do you?
Answers to Story Two:
1.SHAMROCK 2.TANISTRY 3.STEW 4.BANSHEE 5.BROGUE 6.LEPRECHAUN
7.LIMERICK
8.SHILLELAGH 9.SMITHEREENS 10.STOUT 11.SAINT PATRICK 12.DONNYBROOK
13.BOYCOTT 14.BLARNEY