How it works
St. Patrick's Day in bubble letters on one sideways sheet, St. Patrick's above Day. It opens in Fredoka, which prints it tallest of the four fonts here and keeps a white ring in the P, the D and both a's.
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A door, a parade and the day in Irish
After your first print, open St. Patrick's Day words to print. Happy / St. Patrick's / Day greets a door and St. Patrick's / Day Parade marks a route. Lá Fhéile / Pádraig is the day's name in Irish, with its three accents drawn in all four fonts, and St. Paddy's / Day its nickname. March 17 gives the date, and Erin go / Bragh suits a banner.
Lucky, Shamrock and a Pot of Gold
Lucky has no closed letter, so nothing fills in. Shamrock, Four-Leaf / Clover, Luck of / the Irish and Wear / Green fill a board. The Leprechaun of later stories is a shoemaker with a hidden Pot of / Gold at the end of the rainbow, and Leprechaun / Trap labels a classroom build.
- Happy / St. Patrick's / Day adds a line and keeps the letters the same height, in all four fonts.
- Gold, under Look, gives Pot of / Gold a gold shine; Slime green, under Colours in More options, turns Wear / Green green.
- For a banner, One letter per page under More options makes thirteen sheets; the period rides with the t and the apostrophe with the k.
Questions and answers
How do you draw St. Patrick's Day in bubble letters?
Pencil St. Patrick's on one line and Day under it, with wide gaps. Round every stroke into a fat outline, keep a ring in the P, the D and each a, set the apostrophe before the s, then erase the pencil.
When is St. Patrick's Day?
On March 17 every year. The usual ways to mark it are parades and wearing green or a shamrock.
Is it St. Paddy's Day or St. Patty's Day?
Both are in use. Wikipedia's article on the day lists St. Paddy's Day among its nicknames and St. Patty's Day as one heard mainly in North America.
Is a shamrock a four-leaf clover?
No. A shamrock is a clover with three leaves; the word comes from the Irish seamróg, young clover. A four-leaf clover is a rare clover with a fourth leaflet, the one said to bring good luck.
What does Erin go Bragh mean?
It is most often translated as Ireland Forever. The words are an English spelling of the Irish phrase Éirinn go Brách.