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St. Patrick’s Day Tinker Tubs™ for Preschoolers

Use materials you have to fill a tub, box or bag and let your students build their own lucky creations or try to capture a leprechaun with a St. Patrick’s Day Tinker Tub!

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Preschool STEAM Tinker Tubs™

Tinker tubs make it easy to start encouraging students to persevere with open-ended play and exploration.

What is a Tinker Tub™?

A tinker tub is a container with provided materials that encourage children to build, create and design.

pattys day tinker tub

Tinker tubs give students the opportunity to learn:

  • how to persevere
  • how to learn from failure and still try again
  • how to re-evaluate, redesign and re-think a problem to create a unique and inventive solution.

How to Get Started with Tinker Tubs™:

Step 1: Choose your tub (or box, or bin)

The best thing is you can use boxes, bins, tubs, even a plastic bag or shoebox works.

Step 2: Choose your building materials

pattys day tinker tub materials

Building Materials Ideas: 

  • Small green objects like bottle caps
  • Green blocks
  • Green and gold pipe cleaners
  • Rainbow colored pipe cleaners
  • Green Pom Poms
  • Gold coins
  • Plastic black pot (or cauldrons)
  • Green gems
  • Shredded green paper
  • Craft sticks
  • Green plastic cups

Step 3: Let your students tinker.

green tinker tub

patty day tinker tub stack

Challenge cards may be added as a creative prompt to challenge deeper thinking.


pattys day tinker tub cards

Get the free St. Patrick’s Day Tinker Tub™ Guide! Plus a FREE set of Challenge Cards!

Find more tinker tub inspiration here:

Preschool STEAM Tinker Tubs

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Jamie Hand

Welcome to Preschool STEAM!

I'm Jamie a STEAM educator and certified art instructor with more than 12 years experience.

My passion is to show how you can inspire and encourage your students’ creativity through hands-on learning and problem-solving.

You do not need to be an artist, scientist or mathematician to make learning fun and engaging for your students.

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