March is a great time to discuss and explore leprechauns because of St. Patrick’s Day. This post shares Leprechaun Read Alouds that you can use for this purpose. All of the picture books on this list lend themselves to this topic really well. Take a peek below to learn more about these Leprechaun Read Alouds!
5 Leprechaun Read Alouds
Below is a list of some of our favorite Leprechaun Read Alouds to share with elementary students. Check them out!
1. Clever Tom and the Leprechaun by Linda Shute
While out for a walk, Tom hears tapping coming from a bush. He is surprised to find a leprechaun, and wants his gold! Although the leprechaun tries to trick Tom to get away, Tom is able to catch him. The leprechaun leads Tom to a field of weeds where he buried his gold. Tom must go and get his shovel, and worries he won’t remember which bush the gold is under. He ties a ribbon around the bush and the leprechaun promises not to take it off. When Tom returns, he finds every bush in the field has a red ribbon. He spends all night digging for the gold and cannot find it.
Years later, Tom loves to tell the story of how he almost got the leprechaun’s gold. From that day on, he carried his shovel with him just in case he were to catch the leprechaun again.
Check out these Clever Tom and the Leprechaun teaching resources and activities to help you plan and deliver highly engaging read aloud lessons!
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2. How to Catch a Leprechaun by Adam Wallace
It is almost St. Patrick’s day and a leprechaun is out and about at night. He visits many different homes where children have designed traps in hope of catching a leprechaun. At each house he visits, the leprechaun is able to get away! None of the traps are good enough to catch him. During his visit to some of the houses, the leprechaun takes time to play tricks on the children. He paints a toilet green and puts someone’s stinky sneakers in soapy water!
Students will enjoy hearing about this leprechaun’s night out and how he gets away from all of the children’s traps. It might even encourage them to try and make their own traps!
Check out these How to Catch a Leprechaun teaching resources and activities to help you plan and deliver highly engaging read aloud lessons!
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3. That’s What Leprechauns Do by Eve Bunting
Three leprechauns, Art, Boo, and Col, notice that rain clouds are making their way across the sky. They have an important leprechaun duty to complete so they begin to pack up their things and head out. While they agree that they don’t engage in mischief along they way, they find themselves causing some trouble. They paint a cow’s hooves red, tie a man’s pants together, and put a tennis ball inside a hens nest.
As the rainbow makes its way across the sky, the leprechauns realize they must make it to the end of the rainbow before it’s too late. When they get there, the three leprechauns dig up their pot of gold and place it at the end of the rainbow. Although they wait for awhile, by the time the sky clears no one has come to find the pot of gold. Art, Boo, and Col put away the pot and head out to find more mischief.
Check out these That’s What Leprechauns Do teaching resources and activities to help you plan and deliver highly engaging read aloud lessons!
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4. The Gingerbread Man and The Leprechaun Loose in the School by Laura Murray
This book tells the story about a peculiar day the Gingerbread Man and his classmates had at school. It all started when they heard a laugh and saw the Leprechaun run down the hall. They followed his notes around the school, finding mess after mess that the Leprechaun created. First the music room, then the bathroom and library! The Gingerbread Man knew he had to come up with a plan to catch the Leprechaun before he made a mess of the classroom.
The Gingerbread Man gathered his supplies and set up the trap. When the Leprechaun entered the room he was covered with glue, flung across the room, and wrapped with toilet paper. The Gingerbread Man knew his trap worked and asked the Leprechaun to clean up the mess. Once the school was clean, the Gingerbread Man let go of the Leprechaun and knew he would be ready with a new plan next year.
Check out these The Gingerbread Man and The Leprechaun Loose in the School teaching resources and activities to help you plan and deliver highly engaging read aloud lessons!
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5. The Luckiest Leprechaun by Justine Korma
MacKenzie O’Shammrock lives in a fairy garden that is inside a park. He is perfectly happy being alone because he must spend his time protecting his gold from Professor Chester. One day, when MacKenzie is sleeping, dirt starts falling all over his house. He goes outside to see a dog digging in the ground. When MacKenzie gets mad at the dog, she immediately apologizes. Lucky, the dog, wants to make it up to MacKenzie by being his friend or guard dog.
At first, MacKenzie is annoyed by Lucky hanging around him. However, overtime, MacKenzie starts to warm up to Lucky. One day when MacKenzie is sleeping, Professor Chester comes close to stealing his gold. Thankfully, Lucky is there to scare the professor away and MacKenzie is happy to have a guard dog. However, when MacKenzie wakes up later to find his gold gone, he starts to think Lucky tricked him. He is sad to have lost his friend and his gold. Lucky returns home and explains to MacKenzie that she spent the night protecting the gold from the professor and MacKenzie realizes how great it is to have a friend.
Check out these The Luckiest Leprechaun teaching resources and activities to help you plan and deliver highly engaging read aloud lessons!
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