Wondering what kind of decorations to use for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration?
Holidays like St. Patrick’s Day are one of those holidays that require us to have some decorations around the house, classroom, and office, and this is something everyone loves.
These kinds of holidays bring fun in many ways, especially with the decorations.
While the origin of St. Patrick’s Day dates back to Ireland as the celebration of one of their patron saints, it has now become a holiday that’s celebrated in so many countries around the world.
No matter how you celebrate it, it is guaranteed to be a fun experience with the right decorations.
There are lots of fun decorations that are perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, from pot of gold décor to shamrocks, leprechauns, and rainbow decorations, among a few others, and each one is sure to put anyone in a cheerful, fun, and festive holiday mood.
Now grab your shopping boots, as this post brings you a list of every décor item you’ll need.
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St. Patrick's Day Décor Ideas
Transforming your home for St. Patrick’s Day doesn't require a pot of gold; it’s about layering textures and shades of emerald to create a festive, welcoming atmosphere.
- Layer Your Greens: Don't stick to one shade; mix lime, forest, and olive tones to create a sophisticated, monochromatic look that feels intentional rather than cluttered.
- Natural Elements: Use potted shamrocks (Oxalis) as living centerpieces. Their purple or green leaves add organic beauty that lasts longer than cut flowers.
- Textural DIYs: Craft a burlap door hanger or use gold-painted mason jars as vases to balance the vibrant greens with neutral earth tones.
- Apothecary Jars: Fill glass jars with gold chocolate coins or split green peas for a quick, colorful mantle display.
- Subtle Accents: Swap out standard throw pillows for plaid Irish wool blankets to add a cozy, Celtic touch to your living room.
- Mantel Magic: Create a "Luck" banner using recycled cardstock and twine, draping it over a eucalyptus garland for a modern aesthetic.
- Scented Ambience: Use candles with notes of clover, moss, and rain to engage all the senses.
1. Lucky Burlap St. Patrick’s Day Banner
A banner made of burlap fabric with the word “LUCKY” written on it in green.
The banner is attached to a floating shelf on a wall, and it’s styled with green leaves on both sides of the shelf.
Above the shelf sits a framed shamrock leaf art, and other decorative shamrock leaves decorate the wall just above the framed art on both sides.
2. Shamrock & Pine Garland
The mantel over the fireplace is decorated with a garland made up of shamrock leaves and pine leaves.
Together, they create a beautiful garland that ties beautifully into the St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
This is a classic decoration that never seems to get old; it brings that fun and festive St. Patrick’s Day vibes to your fireplace.
3. St. Patrick’s Day Party Backdrop
Well, if you plan to throw an amazing St. Patrick’s Day party, you’re definitely going to need a perfect spot for taking pictures, and that’s where this backdrop comes in.
The backdrop is made up of gold fringe curtains, alongside green tinsel shamrocks in different sizes.
A stunning picture space for a fun and festive party.
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4. “May The Luck Of The Irish With You” Fireplace Décor
Want to go all out with your St. Patrick’s Day decoration for your fireplace?
Then you’ll love this one.
The mantelpiece has a shamrock garland going from the framed top over the fireplace to the side, with vintage candle holders holding gold candles and gold scented candles decorating the top of the mantel.
Alongside two small framed artworks, and a larger framed art that reads “MAY LUCK OF THE IRISH WITH YOU”.
5. Shamrock & Gold Bauble Wreath
Let this be one of the first things guests see when they visit your home for the St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
The wreath is made up of different types of artificial leaves, but the shamrock leaves stand out, along with the gold baubles ornament.
There are other small gold balls packed together decorating many parts of the wreath, matching the gold vibes that come with the St. Patrick’s celebration.
6. St. Patrick’s Day Tree
Well, why not step up the decoration a bit with a nice St. Patrick’s Day-themed tree?
The tree has a leprechaun hat at the top, with shiny gold and green bauble ornaments, alongside different types of shamrock ornaments.
The tree also has gold coins, small leprechaun hats, rainbows, and pots of gold decorating every part of the tree.
7. Shamrock & Pot of Gold Front Porch Décor
Make sure that even the exterior of your home gets its fair share of the decorations.
The front door frame has faux green garland with a white sign at the bottom of the door, and gold balls sit at the bottom of the sign.
Three wooden buckets sit on the porch, two filled with shamrock leaves on both sides of the door, while the last bucket is filled with gold balls.
8. Shamrock-themed Chair Pillows
No matter how small the decoration is, it totally counts incorporate the decorations into your normal living room items.
These chair pillows are white with a large shamrock decoration on them in green.
It’s simple, it’s fun, and it does bring that St. Patrick’s luck to your sitting area.
9. Festive Green Shamrock Quilted Sofa Cover
Not satisfied with the festive shamrock chair pillows only, then step it up with a full green shamrock-themed sofa cover.
The cover has a plaid pattern in green, gold, and brown, and a deep, stylish green design decorating the edge of the sofa.
A bold shamrock design sits at the middle of the cover, matched with one shamrock chair pillow, and another different shade of green plaid chair pillow.
10. Shamrock String Hanging Décor
Another simple decoration that still brings the beauty of the festivities to any space.
Two strings with five plastic shamrocks of different sizes hang from the ceiling all the way down.
This decoration can be used at home, in a classroom, and in an office.
It is simple, festive, decorative, and really creative.
11. St. Patrick’s Day Floral Centerpiece
A flower arrangement that has the St. Patrick theme on lock.
A white chalk- painted mason jar that’s filled with artificial green leaves, artificial white flowers, and stylish glitter shamrocks.
It also has two glittering green leprechaun hats, a beautiful St. Patrick’s Day centerpiece for a dining table or any other place that it fits.
12. DIY Shamrock Coffee Mug
Some of the best kinds of decorations are those that we make ourselves, but they look like they were bought in a store.
Take this coffee mug, for instance; it looks like it’s a professionally decorated mug, but it was really just made by some random person at home.
A white mug is decorated with green and gold confetti-like materials, with a space in between that forms a shamrock.
13. Irish Flag Mason Jars
While there are store-bought mason jars that look just like these, they are surprisingly easy to make.
One jar is painted green with small white shamrock arts, the second jar is painted green, white, and orange, and the last jar is painted white with small green shamrocks.
They always look bright and festive on any table or countertop.
14. Pot of Gold Topiary Tree
Why go for a regular pot of gold, which is a great décor no doubt, but why go for just that when you can have something better with this amazing pot of gold topiary tree?
The pot of the tree is gold, filled with gold coins, with a long green stick stretching out of the pot filled with gold coins.
At the top of the wood sits a round ball green paper rose flower pomander.
15. DIY Shamrock Garland
Make your own St. Patrick’s Day garland with strings and paper shamrock cutouts.
First, you’ll need green strings, and then cutout thick cardboard paper shamrocks in green, lime green, and dark green and attach them to the strings.
This would make for a beautiful decoration and a fun activity in a classroom.
16. Easy DIY Shamrock Wands
More fun St. Patrick’s Day decorative activity for you and your kids to enjoy, be it your kids at home or those at school.
Golden wands are attached to different shades of green glittering shamrock paper cutouts.
Gold coins are attached to the middle of the shamrocks, while ribbons and streamers in gold and green stream down from the shamrocks.
Perfect for toppers or just festive decorative wands for the kids.
17. Shamrock Honeycomb
Honeycomb hanging decorations can be used anywhere in the house, school, or office, and they beautify any space they are used in.
Now, for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration, a shamrock-themed Honeycomb is perfect; hang them about, on your front porch, in the living room, pathway, and any other place you like.
18. Lucky One Shamrock Cake Topper
An acrylic cake topper that forms and spells out “LUCKY ONE” with a little green shamrock at the bottom of the “O,” which is in the form of a heart.
In this picture, the lucky one shamrock topper is placed on a white, light green, and deep green cake with shamrocks in matching green shades as the cake decorating the base of the cake.
The topper serves as a décor for the cake, while tying into the overall St. Patrick’s Day decoration.
19. Wood Curl Shamrock Wreath
Beautiful wreath that says one thing: it’s time for a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day celebration.
This shamrock wreath is made up of wood curls that are designed uniquely and then attached to create a wreath.
The wreath is in the form of a large shamrock leaf with a wooden stem, and a gold ribbon is tied at the stem of the shamrock.
20. Leprechaun Mason Jar with Gold Wrapped Candy
Not interested in buying a pot of gold to decorate for St. Patrick’s Day, then why not create your own pot of gold?
A mason jar is painted green with a leprechaun belt at the middle of the jar, and the jar is then filled with gold wrapped candies.
It serves as a leprechaun pot of gold decoration, and also a spot for treats for guests.
21. Pot of Gold Hanging Décor
Stunning DIY craft, it looks like a store-bought decoration.
A white and red string is attached to a paper cutout of a pot of gold, which is painted black with green shamrock at the top, and painted gold at the mouth to look like it’s filled with gold.
Above the pot sits Paper strips in Rainbow color arranged like a rainbow shining in the sky.
22. Pot of Gold Rainbow Crochet Wreath
This option is for crochet lovers, those who are handy with crocheting.
The wreath is made into a rainbow with red, purple, blue, green, yellow, and pink wool.
At the top of the wreath sits a shamrock also made out of green wool.
Lastly, the most creative part of the décor would be the crochet-made black pot at the bottom of the wreath, which is then filled with native gold.
23. Gold Shamrock Mason Jar
Mason jars can really be used for almost anything, and this shamrock and gold-themed mason jar décor is proof of that.
Two jars sit on both sides of one bigger jar, all of them are painted gold to match the golden style of St. Patrick’s Day.
Small green shamrocks decorate all around the jars as well, creating a beautiful St. Patrick’s Day decoration.
24. Toilet Paper Leprechaun Hat
Why waste your toilet paper roll when you can redesign it into something amazing?
Create your own leprechaun hat by painting your empty toilet paper roll green with the black and gold part of a leprechaun hat added.
Then cover the bottom with a round wider than the rolled cardboard cutout, which is also painted green, of course.
25. DIY Popsicle Stick Leprechauns
Rather than buying a leprechaun decoration from the dollar store near you, you can just make one yourself with this DIY leprechaun craft.
Popsicle sticks are glued together in a style that forms three leprechauns.
They are then painted, the face, outfit, shoes, and hat are painted, one of us smiling with his eyes closed, another with his eyes open, and the last one is whistling.
26. Rainbow Arch Paper Chain
A decorative craft that can be done by all the kids in a classroom.
This large rainbow arch is made up of paper chains, which are glued together in the respective colors of purple, blue, green, yellow, and red from bottom to top.
A yellow smiley sun cutout sits above the rainbow, with blue cloud paper cutouts on both sides of the sun, and decorative paper flowers and butterflies design under the rainbow.
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Conclusion
While there are lots of store-bought decorations on the list, affordable ones that are, there are also DIY options for those who like to “get their hands dirty” while having fun with their loved ones at home, kids in school, or coworkers at work.
This amazing Irish holiday is usually spent with people going out and moving about, but that doesn’t mean you should forget the space you’re normally in, that is, mainly your home, and other spaces like the office where you work, or the classroom where you teach.
While the decorations are a very important part of the celebration, like with most amazing holidays, of course, that isn’t all it is about; there would be food and drinks, of course, all of that, and the decorations work hand in hand to create a fun, long-lasting holiday memory.
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So, cheers to a merry St. Patrick’s Day celebration!
