St. Patrick’s Day Color by Code – FREE Printables

These FREE St. Patrick’s Day color by code printables will prepare you to “shamrock and roll!” Use any of your favorite supplies to color these cuties in.

Four St. Patrick’s Day Color by Code sit on a pile of pretend gold

Our St. Patrick’s Day Color by Code printables are fun for many ages

I love, love, love color by codes!

I loved them as a kid, I love them as an adult, and I love using them with our preschoolers.

Color by code feels like solving a puzzle. An image gets assembled piece by piece, working from being slightly put together to nearly put together to complete and gorgeous.

Related: Our GIANT 10-foot St. Patrick’s Day coloring page is off-the-charts fun AND is the largest coloring page your kids have ever seen!

A color by letter page of a pot of gold sits next to other pages colored in and on top of a pile of gold

Four different levels of St. Patrick’s Day color by code included

To keep kids’ interest heightened and fresh, we have four different levels in our St. Patrick’s Day color by code set:

Color by letter
Color by number
Color by shape
Color by sum (addition problems)

We love activities kids of different ages can do together, and your kids will love them!

Looking for more St. Patrick’s Day activities? Here are some lucky charms:

A before and after of a St. Patrick’s Day Color by Code of a rainbow with a pot of gold

Materials

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FREE printable
Crayons or markers
Watercolor paints – optional but fun to try!

A color by number shamrock is colored in and held over fake gold coins.

Directions

This is just about as simple as it gets (yay!).

Print off the free color-by-code pages and choose what page(s) will work best for your child.

While all children are different and some skills come easier to others, a broad scale of difficulty you can use as a beginning gauge is:

Color by letter – easy
Color by number – easy
Color by shape – moderate
Color by sum – hard

Of course, letters might be easier for some kids than shapes, and sums might be easier for some kids than letters, but this is how I would look at them when choosing them for most of my preschoolers.

Invite your child to color in their pages with markers or crayons (or ANY of their favorite drawing materials!).

Also, have fun with watercolors. Even though they’re called color by code, they are also fun to color with paints. Some preschoolers don’t particularly love coloring but will fly through sheet after sheet with watercolors.

A color by sum rainbow is colored in and held over fake gold coins.

Why I love color by code

Oh, there are so many reasons!

Here are my top favorite reasons why I love this activity with my preschool students:

Visual discrimination: When looking at the image, there is a lot to sort through. Kids must concentrate and work hard to match the colors to the correct code. When I visualize this part, I always picture a kid working with their little tongue sticking out of the side of their mouth. So much focusing!

Fine motor: So! Much! Coloring!

Academic skills: One way to keep young learners excited about learning academic skills (ex: letters, numbers, shapes, etc.) is by introducing them in new ways. Looking at a paper and coloring all the rectangles blue or all the 2s orange is often met with excitement and energy!