Patrick's Day Activities and Crafts for Kids. Did you want to do some fun, educational and engaging St. Patrick’s Day activities with children? Patrick’s Day Crafts & Activities. St. Patrick’s Day Little Man Puppet. Cut a large shamrock out — have the child paste it on a large art stick or popsicle stick and then add the arms (with attached little shamrocks for hands) and legs (again with little shamrocks for feet)Shamrock cut outs. Cookie cutters into paint and either paint a sweatshirt or on large pieces of paper. Shamrock Puzzles. Cut out a large shamrock and let the child paste, paint, color all over it. Depending on the age, the child can later cut it into several pieces and let them put the puzzle together!! Shamrock hunting – Ages: 2+Take children into back yard or a park and have them look for four leaf clovers. We actually found one last year!!!— This can be done inside as well by making a construction paper clover and 1 four leaf shamrock and have the kids try and find it. Leprechaun mischief – All ages.
While the children are out playing or before they arrive make some silly changes in the room like putting things out of place, hiding things, leaving gold chocolate coins, etc. Leave green footprints. ![]() Blame it on the leprechaun when they come in. Explain all about St. Patrick’s day and leprechauns. Coin hunting – All ages. Scatter gold chocolate coins in yard before children arrive and have fun searching for the “luck” left by the leprechauns. Collage – Ages 2 1/2 +Cut out a shamrock shape and have a box of green collage materials- yarn, fabric, ribbon, buttons, glitter. I found a huge, felt-backed board that was part of a Bible visual aid set and got it out for the girls to make some shape pictures and patterns on. I cut out some. Shape collageAdd green coloring to glue and let them decorate. Paper Plate Shamrocks. Materials: 3 paper plates. Green Crayons. Green Construction paper. Glue. Scissors. Instructions: Color all three paper plates green. Cut a stem from green construction paper. Glue the three paper plates together and in a triangle type shape. Then glue the stem at the bottom. Coffee Filter Shamrock. Materials: Coffee filter. Water. Scissors. Blue and yellow food coloring. Q- tips. Instructions: Cut Coffee filter in the shape of a shamrock. Put water in two baby food jars. Add yellow food color in one jar and blue in the other. Give the children Q- tips and let them mix the colors on the coffee filter. Moonshine is a music studio album recording by COLLAGE (Neo-Prog/Progressive Rock) released in 1994 on cd, lp / vinyl and/or cassette. This page includes Moonshine's. You end up with a very interesting green shamrock. St Pat’s Ribbonssubmitted by Wendy Hollands. ![]() Chesterville, Ontario, Canada. Materials: Chenille stick. Pom pom. Glue. Wiggly eyes. Ribbon. Feather. Instructions: I bent the glitzy chenille stick into a shamrock shape. The kids glued on the 1. They glued on the shamrock ribbon in the back. They glued on the two eyes. Then they glued on the feather. I glued the pin in the back with glue gun. St Pat’s Shamrockssubmitted by Lisa of Dreams and Discoveries. Materials: White rice. Cooking oil. Green food coloring. White posterboard. Instructions: 1. Cut posterboard into shamrock shapes, one per child. Pour rice into large bowl, coat lightly with oil, put in several drops of food coloring, stir until rice is green. Let rice dry on paper towels for several hours. Give each child a posterboard shamrock, let each child pour glue all over shamrock, then spread thin with q- tip. Give each child a small bowl with green rice in it, let child sprinkle rice all over glue, let dry. Sparkle Shamrocks – ages 2- 6 (help the little ones)Materials: Cereal box cardboard. Pinto beans. Green paint. Paint brushes. Scissors. Glue. Glitter. Instructions: 1. Cut a large shamrock shape out of your cardboard. Glue the pinto beans onto the shamrock. Let dry overnight. Paint Green & sprinkle with glitter. Two weeks ago, a leprechaun “lost” all his gold in our play spaces. He left us his pot and a reward notice saying that if we could find all his gold and refill his pot by St. Patrick’s Day, he would leave us a reward. The children have been having a wonderful time finding the gold (gold spray- painted items – anything I could think of – marbles, rocks, buttons, keys, feathers, spoons etc.). Each time they find a piece of gold, they place it in the leprechaun’s pot and I give them a “Lucky Shamrock” sticker to put on their cubby name label (we count how many items we have and how many stickers each child has – Math). On St. Patrick’s Day, the leprechaun will return at nap time and pick up his small pot full of gold – and in return he will leave a large pot (a Halloween witch’s cauldron) full of a reward. The reward will consist of shamrock shaped cookies, a pitcher of lemonade tinted green, festive cups and napkins, and a goodie bag for each child. Shamrock Wands. From Craft’s for St Patrick’s Dayby Kathy Ross. Text . Cut three heart shapes from the green paper. Glue the tips of the three shapes together to form a shamrock. Staple the center of the shamrock to the end of the straw to make a handle. Decorate the shamrock with gold glitter. Cut three or more 3 foot ribbons. Hold the ribbons together and staple them to the back of the shamrock at the center so that the ends hang down from the shamrock wand. Cut several tiny shamrocks and staple them along the ribbons. Maybe your magic wand will help you catch a leprechaun!! Shamrock People. Materials: Construction paper. Scissors. Instructions: Cut large shamrock shape our of green paper. Fold white paper accordion style for arms and legs. Cut small shamrocks for hands and feet. Glue at ends of accordion arms and legs. Decorate large shamrock as a face. Very Cute! Recipes. Leprechaun Puddingone 1- ounce box of sugar free instantpistachio pudding for every five children. Put tablespoon of pudding mix in sandwich bag and milk, then close the baggy and have kids shake and squeeze, then eat. St. Patrick’s Day Songs, Poems and Finger Plays. Leprechaun’s Gold(sung to “I’m a Little Teapot”)I’m a little leprechaun. Dressed in green,The tiniest man. That you have ever seen. If you ever catch me, so it’s told,I’ll give you my pot of gold. Wee Little Patrick(sung to “Yankee Doodle”)Patrick is a leprechaun. He has a sack of gold. He hides it in a special place. Between two stumps, I’m told. I think I once saw Patrick. Out in the woods at play. He smiled and laughed and winked his eye. And then he ran away. Don’t try to follow Patrick. To find his treasure sack. He’ll twist and jump and run away. And he never will come back.(sung to “I’m a Little Teapot”)I’m a little Leprechaun short and green,Here is my shamrock but I can’t be seen,When you pull my feather,hear me scream (everyone scream)I’m a little Leprechaun,short and green. Shamrocks, shamrocks,On Ireland’s hills,Greenest of green. Over rocks and rills. Good luck do they bring,For one and all. On St. Patrick’s Day. We can see them all. Mosaic Pot of Goldby Amanda Formaro Kids will love making this fun picture for St. Patrick’s Day! Only a few supplies, this project is fun and cost effective! Age: 4 and up. This project is rated VERY EASY to do. Use a pen or pencil to trace the pattern, press firmly so that the paper underneath is indented. Remove the pattern and lightly trace the indents with pencil or pen. Tear remaining construction paper into strips, then into squares. Following the pattern lines, use white craft glue to fill in different sections at a time then apply the paper squares onto the glue. We recommend the following order for best results. Helpful Hints Keep a stock of construction paper for fun impromptu projects. Buy holiday themed stickers and supplies after each holiday when they go on clearance! If you have carbon paper, you can use this to trace the pattern instead of creating indents and drawing over them. External St Patrick’s Day Links to Other Sites. Making Friends St Patrick’s Page. DLTK’s St Patrick’s Day Fun. Kids Domain St Pat’s Goodies. Family. Corner. com St Patrick’s Day Fun. Musical Finian’s Rainbow. Old Fashioned Holidays. Main Street Moms St Pat’s Ideas. Absolutely for St Patrick’s Day. Dear Reader: You can help us make this theme even better! All of our theme ideas have come from our imagination and from reader submissions.
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