St Patty's Day Art Projects
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by making themed arts and crafts with your children. Host a St. Patty's Day party and encourage kids to use their imaginations using everyday craft items. Provide plenty of green art supplies -- such as crayons, construction paper and markers -- as well as shamrock-shaped stencils and stamps.
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Shamrock Shirt
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Transform a plain, white, cotton T-shirt into St. Patrick's Day wear using craft items. Kids can make the T-shirts during a party and take them home as charming favors. Wash and dry a new T-shirt, making sure not to use fabric softener. Create shamrock patterns on the front of the shirt using stencils, a small paintbrush and green fabric paint. You can also create your own shamrocks using a small heart-shaped sponge; arrange three or four heart designs, points-in, to create the patterns. Kids can add shimmer to the shirt using gold glitter fabric paint.
Lollipop Pin
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Create a sweet shamrock-shaped pin using lollipops. Kids can proudly wear their creations on St. Patrick's Day and eat them later. Arrange three round, green lollipops into a shamrock shape on a small piece of clear plastic wrap. To secure the sticks together, wrap them with a white twist tie directly under the candy. Wrap the plastic wrap tightly around the candy, twisting the ends together at the top of the lollipop sticks, over the twist tie. Tie a thin green ribbon into a bow over the twist tie to hold the plastic wrap in place. Use double-sided tape to secure a pin backing to the back of the center lollipop.
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Pot of Gold Craft
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Young kids will delight in making a pot of gold-inspired craft. To begin the project, cut a pot shape out of brown construction paper and glue it to the center of a piece of plain, white paper. Cut circles out of gold foil wrapping paper and glue them to the top of pot as coins. Kids can use colorful markers or crayons to draw rainbow shapes coming out of the top of the pot.
Paper Leprechaun
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Help young children make enchanting leprechaun crafts using paper plates. Turn a white paper plate upside down and paint the rim bright orange for the leprechaun's hair and beard. When the paint is dry, glue two plastic googly eyes to the plate and use markers to create a nose and mouth. Cut a leprechaun hat shape out of green construction paper and glue it to the top of the plate. Create a hat band with black construction paper and a buckle with yellow paper; glue the items on the hat shape.
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References
- Photo Credit shamrock image by Olga Khoroshunova from Fotolia.com
