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14 Fun St. Patrick's Day Crafts for Kids

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By Nicole Harris Updated March 13, 2020
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Channel the luck of the Irish with these St. Patrick's Day crafts for preschoolers, toddlers, and school-aged children.

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Leprechaun Artist

Girl with leprechaun beard
Credit: Photograph by Doug Merriam

Warning: This easy-to-make prop may give your child mischievous ideas. Print out our beard template here. Cut the shape from a piece of faux fur and a piece of corrugated cardboard (with the corrugations running vertically). Glue the fur to the cardboard. Place a bit of glue on the end of a bamboo skewer, then insert it into one of the center flutes of the cardboard. Let the glue dry before employing the disguise.

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Gold Nuggets and Shamrock Stones

Shamrock and Gold Nugget Rocks
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All you need for this St. Patrick's Day craft (courtesy of Sustain My Craft Habit) is some rocks, paint, and a paintbrush. To make the gold nuggets, cover small or medium jagged rocks with gold metallic paint.

The shamrocks are slightly more difficult; grab a smooth rock, then make three hearts with green paint, as shown (one facing right, one facing left, and one facing up). Connect the hearts with a stem through the middle. Add highlights to your shamrock with a lighter green paint color, if desired.

Find the instructions on Sustain My Craft Habit.

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Rainbow Necklace

Rainbow Necklace with Twizzlers
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Not only will this St. Patrick's Day craft entertain your toddler or preschooler, it will also develop their fine motor skills. Simply cut multi-colored Twizzlers into 1-inch pieces, separate them by color, and string them onto a plastic beading string. The original crafter, Mrs. Karle's Sight and Sound Reading, followed the colors of a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

Find the instructions on Mrs. Karle's Sight and Sound Reading.

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Spinning Shamrock

Girl blowing Spinning Shamrock
Credit: Photograph by Alexandra Grablewski

You won't need luck to get this Saint Patrick's Day pinwheel to turn—just a puff of air. Download our template here. Use it to cut the shape from a double-sided sheet of scrapbook paper. Fold an edge of each leaf section as marked on the template. Press a tack through the center of the pinwheel and into the side of a pencil's eraser, leaving a bit of space so that the paper can turn freely. Blow on the side of the shamrock for the best spin.

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Paper Plate Tambourine

Paper Plate Tambourines for St. Patricks Day
Credit: redtedart.com

Get ready to make some music with this St. Patrick's Day tambourine! Red Ted Art gives instructions for two versions: a rainbow tambourine and a sparkly green tambourine with a shamrock-shaped window. Instead of beans or beads, have your child fill the instruments with festive gold coins.

Find the instructions on Red Ted Art.

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Ireland in a Jar

Ireland in a Jar Craft
Credit: sadieseasongoods.com

Ireland is known for its rolling green landscapes and grazing sheep. Recreate the whimsical scene with this clever St. Patrick's Day craft from Sadie Seasongoods. Blogger Sarah Ramberg filled a mason jar with reindeer moss, faux moss stones, felted sheep, and pieces of gravel to mimic stone walls.

Find the instructions on Sadie Seasongoods.

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No-Sew Shirt

No-Sew St. Patrick's Day Shirt
Credit: aboutamom.com

This green T-shirt is the perfect St. Patrick's Day ensemble; your child can even wear it to school on March 17! Angela from About a Mom shows how to create the shirt with green felt in two colors, fabric glue, and scissors. 

Find the instructions at About a Mom.

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Lucky Charm

Lucky felt letters craft
Credit: Alexandra Grablewski

Legend has it that if a child hangs this banner from their door on St. Patrick's Day, leprechauns may leave gold coins in the pot during the night.

  1. Cut two of each of the letters in the word lucky from colored paper. (Ours are 3 inches high.)
  2. Sandwich the matching letters around a length of string and secure them with a glue stick. Leave a couple of feet of excess string at each end of the banner.
  3. Cut two matching pot shapes from black felt. Glue the shapes together along the sides and bottom. Let the glue dry.
  4. Using the string at the banner's bottom and a tapestry needle, stitch across one layer of the pot's opening. Tie the end of the string to itself just below the letter Y, as shown. Tie a loop in the string above the L for hanging.

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Felt Shamrock Puppets

Shamrock Puppets for St. Patrick's Day Craft
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Kelly from Typically Simple says these shamrock puppets can be repurposed as "lucky leprechaun wands"—how adorable! Start by creating friendly shamrocks out of green felt and craft supplies, then glue them to craft sticks with ribbon bow ties. 

Find the instructions on Typically Simple.

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Finger Painted Rainbow

Finger Paint Rainbow Craft for St. Patrick's Day
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This rainbow art project (courtesy of Made with Happy) is an ideal St. Patrick's Day craft for toddlers or preschoolers. Start by creating a "pot of gold" from black construction paper and attaching it to the bottom corner of a white piece of paper. Then it's time to make a rainbow with colorful paint! Have your kids decide whether to use paint brushes or their fingers (just make sure the paint is safe for skin beforehand.)

Find the instructions on Made with Happy.

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Glad Hatters

Girl in shamrock paper plate hat
Credit: Photograph by Alexandra Grablewski

Dish up a paper-plate party hat that can easily be customized for any occasion.

1. On a dinner-size paper plate, draw a circle about 1-3/4 inches in from the edge.

2. Fold the plate in half, then draw half of a shamrock shape along the fold inside the circle, with the base of the shape touching the line.

3. Cut out the shape and the head hole along the curved line.

4. Bend up the shape. Have your child try on the hat, and widen the head hole as needed.

5. Decorate the hat with paint, crayon, markers, and glitter.

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Marshmallow Rainbow

Mini Marshmallow Rainbow for St. Patrick's Day
Credit: notimeforflashcards.com

This is another St. Patrick's Day craft for preschoolers or toddlers. Draw a rainbow on paper; Allison McDonald at No Time for Flashcards suggests adding squiggles of color as a guide for little ones. Then squirt some glue along the rainbow's arches and help your kid attach multi-colored mini marshmallows to it. Warning: They may sneakily eat a few marshmallows as they're crafting!

Find the instructions at No Time for Flashcards.

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Leprechaun Handprint

Handprint Leprechaun Craft

To make this St. Patrick's Day craft for kids, you'll need to download the leprechaun template from Simple Everyday Mom. Assemble the leprechaun's face using the template, then trace your little one's hand on a piece of orange paper. They can cut out the handprint to use as the leprechaun's head; the fingers double as a shaggy beard! A buckled hat rounds out the project.

Find the instructions on Simple Everyday Mom.

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Swinging Shamrocks

Swinging Shamrocks

Cut four half-inch rings from a flattened cardboard tube, then cut through one of the folds on each ring. For three of the rings, bend and glue the two ends to form a heart-shaped leaf. Fold the fourth ring into a triangular stem and glue the ends together. Glue the stem between two leaves, then glue on the third. Paint the shamrock green. When it's dry, hang it with fishing line or string.

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