Easy Shamrock added 2-15-98
Christa from Preschool Education
Need: Paper,
scissors
Directions:
Cut three heart and a stem from paper. Glue them in the shape of a
shamrock. Then trace it onto green paper. You will have a perfect shamrock
every time.
Leprechaun Latter!
added 2-15-98
Christa from Preschool Education
Need:
Yarn, Straws, Green Construction paper, and Scissors.
Directions: Cut
about 10 Shamrocks out for each child. Make the Shamrocks Small. About 3
inches wide. Cut Straw into 2 inch pieces. String the Straws and the
shamrocks. One Straw, One Shamrock, One Straw, One Shamrock, One Straw,
One Shamrock, etc.... (A good Idea is to put
tape on one end of the string so it does not
come apart, while Stringing. Tape the second end to the table so
the objects don't come off the other side.) When it is done tie a knot
in the Yarn on both side. Hang it From the Ceiling.
You can make them as long or as short as you
wish. They really look great. Also a great Stringing
project for Preschoolers.
Paper Plate Shamrock
added 2-15-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
3 paper plates, Green Crayons, Green Construction paper, glue, and
scissors.
Directions:
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
added 3-12-98 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Coffee Filter, 2 baby food Jars, Water, scissors, Yellow and Blue food
coloring, and a Q-tip
Directions:
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. You
end up with a very interesting green shamrock.
Fingerpaint Clover Field added
3-12-98 Original Author Unknown
Need: 1 piece
fingerpaint paper, green tempera paint mixed with liquid starch (mixed
very thick), 3x3 in pieces of tissue paper in shades of green, scissors,
newspaper
Directions: Cut
shamrocks out of tissue paper (many different sizes). Place fingerpaint
paper on top of newspaper. Pour about 3 tablespoons of paint in the middle
and spread all over the paper with one hand. Make all over design on the
paper. before the paint dries add tissue shamrocks to the paper.
Lucky Leprechaun Hats
added 3-12-98
Original Author Unknown
Submitted by Amy
Need:
paper bowls, green paint, paintbrush, hole punch, ribbon, and gold
glitter
Directions:
Have the children paint the backside of a paper bowl green. When
they dry, punch a hole in the rim of the bowl. One on each side. Lace
ribbon through the hole so you can tie the hat on. Great for a St. Patty's
party.
(OPTIONAL)
While paint in wet on the hats, sprinkle gold glitter on them.
Living Leprechauns
added 2-18-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Styrofoam cups, markers, paper, cotton balls, dirt, grass seeds
Directions:
Give each child a styrofoam cup. Have them draw or paste precut
facial features on the cup. Use cotton balls for beard. The next day
(after the glue dries) fill the cup with dirt. Plant grass or alfalfa
seeds. Each Leprechaun should have a green head of hair soon!!
Shamrock Painting
added 2-18-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Peppers, paint, and paper
Directions:
Green peppers cut in half (they look like shamrocks.) White Paint on Green
paper, or green paint on white paper.
Glitter Shamrocks
added 2-21-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Cookie Cutters, paint, paper, glitter
Directions:
Using cookie cutters in the shape of shamrocks have the children dip the
cutters into shallow pans of paint and press to paper. After they have
desired amount of shamrocks, they may add glitter.
Shamrocks
added 2-21-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Tissue
paper, paper, glue
Directions:
Cut a shamrock from construction paper. Glue pieces of green variegated
tissue paper or scraps of green paper on shamrock.
Rice Shamrocks added
2-21-99 Original Author Unknown
Need:
Oak-tag or heavy white paper, rice, green food coloring, brushes, glue,
glue containers, paper towels or pie tins, shamrock patterns.
Directions: Prepare rice a day ahead of
project. Place rice in a small amount of water to which green food
coloring has been added. Let it soak until desired shade of green had been
reached. Drain off the water and let rice dry on paper towels or in pie
tins overnight. Trace and cut out shamrock shapes. Have the children brush
diluted glue on their shamrocks and sprinkle green rice over the glue. (A
drop or two of alcohol in a few drops food coloring will color very darkly
any kind of pasta: macaroni, etc. Perhaps this will work with rice too. It
dries much quicker without the water. )
Marble paint green
added 2-21-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Three marbles, paint
Directions:
Using three marbles roll green, yellow, and white paint, let dry. Paste on
shamrocks, and lace around the edges.
Shamrock Sun Catcher
added 2-25-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Shamrocks, wax paper, paper
Directions:
Begin by collecting shamrocks or three leafed clovers. Then press between
two sheets of waxed paper. Cut a large shamrock shape from a sheet of
construction paper. Then cut the center out, reserving the shamrock cutout
for another project. Glue the resulting shamrock shaped frame to the
clover containing waxed paper.
Texture Shamrocks
added 2-25-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Green paint, grits, paper
Directions:
Have the children use green finger-paint that has been mixed with grits
(to give it a texture) to cover a shamrock shape.
Irish Flag
added 2-25-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
paper, glue
Directions:
Using a full sheet of white construction paper let the children glue 3
pieces of paper that you have cut to fit the white paper to make the flag.
Starting from the left side of the white paper glue on 1/3 of green
construction paper, 1/3 of white paper & 1/3 of orange paper.
Shamrock crayon rubbing added
2-25-99 Original Author Unknown
Need:
cardboard, pencil, glue, paper, crayons
Directions:
Using a piece of cardboard or matt board draw on some shamrocks with a
pencil. Now take some glue in the bottle & outline the shapes with
glue. Let the glue dry. Now take some paper & lay it on top of the
shamrocks & rub it with the side of
a green crayon. My kids like to call this magic when the design appears.
Shamrock Men
added 2-25-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Construction
Paper, Glue, Markers or Crayons
Directions: Let the children draw a face on the shamrock and add accordion
fold arms and legs.
Shimmering Shamrocks
added 2-25-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
paper, glue, salt or sugar, green cellophane
Directions:
Cut out shamrock shapes from green paper. Have the children put glue
around the edge of the shamrock. Sprinkle salt or sugar on the glue. Or if
you can find the green cellophane paper in the grocery store cut holes in
the shamrock and put cellophane behind it.
Finger Paint
added 2-25-99 Original
Author Unknown
Need:
Finger paint paper, yellow and blue paint
Directions:
Cut large shamrock shapes from finger-painting paper. Put a blob of
yellow and a blob of blue paint on the shamrock. Have the children
finger-paint and
soon...GREEN! This is a good sensory way to learn about colors.
Dancing Leprechaun added
3-7-99 Original Author Unknown
Need:
pudding box, markers, green and white paper, scissors, tape, glue, craft,
easel or other long paper
Directions:
1. Cover the pudding box w/green paper.
2. Cut a circle out of white paper and draw the leprechauns' face on it
w/the markers. Glue it on the pudding box.
3. Cut some pieces of red yard to make the leprechaun's hair. Tie in the
middle w/a small piece of yarn and glue to the top of the box.
4. Glue some snips of red yarn to the leprechaun's face to make a beard.
5. Cut 4 strips of shelf paper 1" wide by 3' long for legs. Cut 4
strips 1' wide x 2' long for arms. Fold the strips over each other back
and forth to form the arms and legs.
6. Cut shoes and hands out of paper and glue to the legs and arms.
7. Tape a loop of yarn to the top of the leprechaun's head for hanging.
Finger Painting
Shamrocks added
2-26-00 Original Author Unknown
Need:
1/2 finger paint sheet, yellow & blue finger-paint, 5 cardboard
shamrocks to trace around, black markers, scissors
Directions:
Have children finger paint yellow and blue all over finger paint sheet.
While the paint is still wet, sprinkle on gold glitter. Let dry. Have
children trace a shamrock shape on the backside of the finger-paint sheet
and then cut out their shamrocks.
Shamrocks added
2-26-00 Original Author Unknown
Need: 1 sheet
white construction paper with Shamrock pattern per child, green tissue
paper cut into squares, glue
Directions:
Have the children glue the green tissue paper onto their Shamrock.
Lucky Charms
added 2-26-00 Original Author Unknown
Need: Lucky
Charms cereal box, and cereal
Directions: Cut
out the rainbow on the lucky charms breakfast cereal and have the kids
glue the cereal shapes right on to the rainbow.
Potato Person
added 2-26-00 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Potato,
grass seed, paper
Directions:
What could be better than a potato craft for St. Paddy's day? Cut a
good size raw potato in half, scoop out the potato flesh, fill with soil
and sprinkle with grass seed. Place the potato in a small margarine
container to stand upright and decorate the front of the potato with eyes,
nose and mouth...when the grass sprouts it will look like the silliest
leprechaun ever!
Puffy Shamrocks
added 2-26-00 Original Author Unknown
Need: Colored paper, Scissors, Glitter,
string, paint-items to decorate with, Glue, Stapler, Newspaper
Directions:
Cut two shamrocks from white or light colored paper. If the
child(ren) is old enough, have them practice their cutting skills by
cutting it out. Next decorate one side of each piece. They can
sponge paint, string paint, markers, glue and glitter, whatever.
Next, staple the two shapes together, leaving a hole at the top.
Stuff with crumpled up newspaper and finish stuffing. Viola! A
Puffy shamrock!
Shamrock Necklace
added 2-26-00 Original
Author Unknown
Need: paper,
green paint, salt, hole punch, ribbon
Directions: Trace
shamrock shapes onto heavy white paper. Carefully cut out, then paint
green and sprinkle with salt. After shamrocks have dried, they will have a
shimmery appearance. You may punch holes in the tops of these then use
yarn or ribbon to tie them to a clothes hangar for a simple mobile, or you
may hole punch them, string them on separate 24" ribbons, tie,
and give to friends as St. Patrick's Day necklaces. If you give them as
necklaces, you may use the shamrock to explain the Trinity as St. Patrick
did when you give each one away.
Green On Green
added 2-22-01 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Green
Construction Paper, Green crayons or oil pastels, White tempera paint,
Paintbrushes
Directions: Draw a
design or picture on the green construction paper using green
crayon. (This can get a bit tricky because its sometimes hard to see what
it is you are drawing.) Just do some fun designs. Press hard with the
crayon so its nice and thick. When the picture is drawn, brush some white
tempera paint (not too thick)
over the paper. Like magic, lines will appear from out of nowhere!
Shamrock Wands
added 2-02-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Green
Construction Paper, scissors, glue, stapler, gold glitter, green
straw, thin ribbon in both green and gold
Directions: 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 of 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!!
Pot-O-Gold Craft
added 2-02-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Paper
Plate, Toilet Tissue or Paper Towel Roll, Glue, Paint
Directions: Cut
down the toilet tissue or paper towel roll so it is about 2 inches high.
Paint it black. Cut the paper plate in half. Cut out an arc shape from the
outside edge
of the paper plate. Make sure the end of the arc can fit into the hole in
the painted
toilet tissue roll. Paint the arc so it looks like a rainbow. Once the
paint is all dry. Slide one end of the rainbow into the black toilet
tissue roll. Glue in place. You now have a pot of gold at the end of a
rainbow! For an added touch, put a line of glue around the top edge of the
toilet tissue roll and sprinkle on gold glitter or sequins.
Green Shaving Cream Art
added 2-07-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: Shaving
cream, green paint, paper, paintbrush
Directions: Add
a few drops of green paint to shaving cream. Have the children use
this to paint with. Not mixing the paint in will give it a special
look.
Shamrock Hats
added 2-07-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: newsprint,
shamrock stickers, green paint
Directions:
Make hats from newsprint and have the child decorate with
green paint or shamrock stickers.
Torn Paper Shamrocks
added 2-07-02 Original
Author Unknown
Need: paper,
glue
Directions:
Draw a shamrock shape on a piece of paper. Have the
children tear pieces of green construction paper, and glue them inside the
lines for the shamrock shape.
Leaping
Leprechaun
added 2-07-02 Submitted
by: rlangan
Need: styrofoam cup, pattern for black pot,
Leprechaun, craft stick.
Direction: Have children color a small
picture of a leprechaun and cut it out. Glue the leprechaun onto craft
stick. Cut out and glue 2 black pots on cup. Stick the craft stick through
bottom of cup. Leprechaun can now "pop" out of his pot of gold.
(Paper coins can also be glued to the top of the cup to look like gold.)
A Shamrock Sun Catcher
added 3-12-02 Submitted
by: Sheila Gail
Need: Paper, wax paper, scissors, crayon
shavings, warm iron (Adult only!), Ironing board, hole punch, yarn
Direction: Have pre-cut shamrocks
from construction paper ready. Cut one inch into the outer edge of
the shamrocks, so that there is no middle. Lay shamrock on wax paper, have
children sprinkle shaved crayons into the empty middle. Lay another sheet
of wax paper on top of the entire shamrock. Cover the whole thing with a
light dish towel. Assist child in pressing an iron on top of the wax paper
to create their sun catcher. Allow children to cut around the edge to
re-form shamrock shape. Hole punch the top, add string, hang in
window.
Magic
Leprechaun Glasses
added 2-07-03 Original
Author Unknown
Need: green
tagboard, green cellophane
Directions:
Cut green tagboard into shamrock shaped
sunglasses with green cellophane covering the eye openings.
Leprechaun
Binoculars
added 2-07-03 Original
Author Unknown
Need: paper
rolls, green paint, staple or glue, yarn
Directions:
Take two paper
rolls and stapled them together. Punch a hole on each side of the
tubes. Then paint the tubes green. Add different shades of tissue
for color. Then use your
leprechaun with your new binoculars.
Green
Spray Paint Art
added 3-09-03 Original
Author Unknown
Need: green paint,
spray bottle, paper
Directions:
Obtain a clean spray
bottle. Add water and a little bit of liquid or powdered tempera. Then,
place a large piece of paper on an easel, and have the children spray the
colored water onto the paper.
Blarney
Stones
added
2-21-05 Original
Author Unknown
Need: smooth rocks,
paintbrush, green & gold glitter, glue
Directions: Have
the kids gather smooth rocks from outside. Wash and dry the rocks,
then use a paintbrush to cover rocks with white glue. Dip each of them in
green or gold glitter and let dry. You now have Blarney Stones for good
luck!
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