St. Patrick’s Day Kids Crafts

St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday filled with magical fun for children. We designed several easy crafts that would be great to make in the classroom, for classroom parties, crafts for home-schoolers, or just a fun afternoon of “craft time” with a parent.

• Create a Leprechaun Snack Cup with cardstock and a small plastic cup. Attach cardstock around a small plastic cup and hold it in place with tape. Add a circular bottom to the plastic cup to form the Leprechaun’s Hat. Finish the hat with ribbon or marker. Children can then use the Leprechaun’s hat to hold their snack.  Optional:  Add a little clover on the side of the hat made with a green chenille stem.

• Make a St. Patrick’s Day Wand with chenille stems, cardstock, and ribbon. Twist the chenille stems to form the wand and then using glue dots or tape attach a green four-leaf clover to the end of the chenille stems. Finish by adding some green and orange ribbon. This is an easy mess-free craft that is perfect for the classroom.

• Perfect gift for a teacher or parent this St. Patrick’s Day; is a sweet gift. Using tulle or cloth, wrap Hershey Kisses inside and then finish with a bow. Attach a little note that reads, “Kiss Me I am Irish!”

• Every knows that Leprechauns have a chests full of treasure! Cover a paper mache box with gold sticky paper, foil, or even paint! Fill the treasure box with candy, costume jewelry, and other little treasures. Then give children clues on how to find the Leprechaun’s treasure box. Make the game as elaborate or as simple as you want depending on the age group.

To accompany the Saint Patrick’s Day craft projects we recommend “Jack and the Leprechaun” by Ivan Robertson. The illustrations are amazing and the book is very informative. Children will learn about Irish folklore, Irish sayings, and the history of St. Patrick’s Day! This book is also perfect for homeschoolers to include in their lesson plan along with some of our fun crafts.

Original Blog Source: St. Patrick’s Day Kids Crafts from Sandy Sandler Creating Creativity Blog

Written By: Sarah Forhan, Bowdabra Designer and author of Sewing and Crafting with Sarah and Contributing Crafter at Crafters 4 Kids
 
Sandy Sandler is founder of non-profit Crafters 4 Kids and creator of the QVC best-seller, the Bowdabra. Her frugal craft projects and activity ideas are designed to transform the creatively-challenged into creative pros. Sandy’s focus is on creative and easy projects that parents can do with their kids and that kids can even do on their own that are both frugal and green in nature. Crafters 4 Kids focuses on projects that can be done under 5 minutes and under $5. Visit www.C4K555.org. Contact Sandy at jaimevivre@mac.com