20 Shamrockin’ St. Patrick’s Day Minute To Win It Games For Kids

Get ready for hilarious party fun with our list of 20 St. Patrick’s Day Minute to Win It games for kids!

These quick and easy minute-to-win-it games are perfect for:

  • Family game nights
  • School, home, or church parties
  • Spring break entertainment
  • Easy entertainment on cold or rainy days

St. Patrick's Day minute to win it games and activities for kids and families

Whether you’re hosting a family party or a festive get-together with friends, these simple games get everyone excited to celebrate!

The best part? These easy St. Patrick’s Day-themed games require only a few supplies and don’t leave a big mess behind. Many games repeat the same items!

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Easy St. Patrick’s Day Minute To Win It Games For Kids

Pro Tip: If your family loves Minute to Win It games, store commonly used materials for easy reuse.

1. Froot Loop Pyramid Stack

Supplies: Froot Loops cereal

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How to Play: Players have one minute to build the tallest Froot Loops pyramid. Only the standing Froot Loops at the end of the minute count. So if their pyramid falls, they have to try to rebuild quickly.

Adjust the challenge: Decide how many Froot Loops players will need to use for the pyramid base before starting.

2. Froot Loop Drop

Supplies: Froot Loop cereal, plates, empty bowls or cups

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How to Play: Players stand on a chair and drop Froot Loops into a cup or bowl on the floor. The person who successfully lands the most Froot Loops in the jar within a minute wins.

To make it easier or harder: Modify the size of the bowl or cup depending on the age.

3. Balance The Rainbow

Supplies: Froot Loops cereal, large popsicle sticks

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How to Play: Players see how many Froot Loops they can balance on their popsicle stick in one minute.

Make it harder: Players hold the popsicle stick in their mouth while they balance the Froot Loops.

4. Don’t Blow It

Supplies: Froot Loops cereal, straws, bowls

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How to Play: Players have one minute to transfer as many Froot Loops from a table to a cup or bowl. The catch? They have to use the straw to move them.

Make it easier: If young kids find this hard, use a spoon instead.

5. Froot Loops Move

*My kids’ favorite!

Supplies: Froot Loops cereal, straws, tape

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How to Play: Players use straws to blow the Froot Loops and see who has the least on their side after one minute.

6. Rainbow Race

Supplies: Froot Loops cereal, pipe cleaners

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How to Play: Players race to see who can thread the most cereal onto the pipe cleaner in one minute.

Make it harder: Players must thread the colors in order of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple).

7. Cereal Sorting

*Perfect for young kids!

Supplies: Froot Loops cereal, plates

How to Play: Players race to sort Froot Loops by color. The person with the most sorted after one-minute wins.

8. Roll A Rainbow

Supplies: Dice, Froot Loops cereal

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How to Play: Arrange six Froot Loops in a row, as shown. Players take turns rolling a die, aiming to match the number rolled to a Froot Loop in their lineup. For each matching number, the player removes (or eats) the corresponding Froot Loop. The first player to roll all six numbers and clear their lineup wins! Or the player to clear the most in the minute wins.

  • Red = 1
  • Orange = 2
  • Yellow = 3
  • Green = 4
  • Blue =5
  • Purple =6

Make it easier: Use sticky notes or a piece of paper to label the Froot Loops with their number.

9. Pick Up Skittles

Supplies: Skittles, tweezers, bowls

How to Play: Players must use tweezers to pick up Skittles and place them into a bowl. The player with the most Skittles in their bowl after one minute wins.

Planning activities for a St. Patrick’s Day party? Try these St. Patrick’s Day Trivia Questions.

10. Skittles Catch

*Play outside!

Supplies: Skittles, Cups

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How to Play: Partners stand 3 feet apart. One partner throws Skittles into the cup of the other partner. after one minute, the team with the most Skittles in the cup wins. Play again and switch who throws and who catches!

11. Skittles Hunt

Supplies: Skittles, plates, whipped cream

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How To Play: Each player receives a plate with 5-10 Skittles buried in whipped cream. The goal is to dig out the Skittles the fastest without using hands.

You can use any small type of candy, cereal, or dried fruit for this game!

12. Let’s Face It

Supplies: Mint Oreos (St. Patrick’s Day theme!)

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How To Play: This is a hilarious game where each player places an Oreo on their forehead. The objective is to move the Oreo to their mouth using only facial muscles. It’s a race against time and gravity!

13. Hunt For Gold

Supplies: Pennies or gold coins

How to Play: Have players leave the room while you hide the gold coins or pennies. When they return, the player who collects the most in a minute wins.

Related: Fun St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt Cards

14. Gold Stack

Supplies: Pennies or gold coins

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How to Play: Stack as many pennies as you can in one minute. Make it tricker by only using one hand!

15. Lucky Charms Tower

Supplies: Lucky Charms cereal

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How to Play: Give each participant a small bowl of Lucky Charms cereal and challenge them to stack as many marshmallow shapes as they can in one minute. The tallest tower wins!

16. Lucky Charms Shake

Supplies: Lucky Charms, Two 2-liter bottles taped together

Lucky Charms shake

How to Play: Fill a 2-liter bottle with Lucky Charms cereal. Tape the filled bottle to another empty 2-liter bottle. Make sure all of the Lucky Charms are in one of the bottles. The quickest person to shake all of the cereal into the other bottle is the winner!

Pro Tip: We filled our bottle a little over 1/3 full of Lucky Charms. We tried to use mostly leftover cereal from the other games we played to be less wasteful. Figuring out how to design a way to funnel the cereal into the bottles would be a great activity for older kids too!

17. Lucky String

Supplies: Lucky Charms cereal, String

How to Play: Two players work together to string as many lucky charms cereal pieces as they can on a string in one minute. (This works with Froot Loops also.)

18. Potato Roll

Supplies: potatoes, spoons

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How to Play: Players use the spoons to roll a potato to a designated spot and back in less than a minute. Have a lot of players? Make it a relay!

19. Hot Potato Toss

Supplies: Potatoes

How to Play: Players form a circle and toss the potato to each other as quickly as possible. When the one-minute timer goes off, the person holding the potato is out. Keep playing until there is one player left!

Variation: Use two potatoes for larger groups.

20. St. Patrick’s Day Exercise

*Great for getting the wiggles out!

Supplies: Nothing!

How To Play: See how many reps kids can do of each of these in a minute.

1. Leprechaun Ladders: High knees or quick feet in place to “climb” the ladder to a rainbow.

2. Pot of Gold Push-Ups: Do a push-up and pretend you’re guarding your pot of gold from sneaky leprechauns.

3. Irish Jig Jumps: Hop side to side, like you’re dancing an Irish jig.

4. Shamrock Squats: Do as many squats as you can.

5. Rainbow Jacks: Do jumping jacks, and make big rainbows with your arms.

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