Have Fun on St. Patrick’s Day Making Crafts with the Kids

Kids love crafts almost as much as they love any holiday. So it only makes sense to spend some time with on St. Patrick’s Day with some of your best craft items making some of the most festive decorations!

Pots of Gold

This is a great craft that kids to do to make their very own pots of gold. You can make several of them to decorate your home or you can make them with your child and then send them to school with him or her to help make their classroom a little more festive. You will need: baby food jars that have been cleaned and the labels removed, pennies, black craft paint, gold craft paint, and paintbrushes. Using a paintbrush, paint the baby food jar black. Place the jar on some newspaper and allow to dry fully. Once completely dry, use the gold paint to write “Happy St. Patrick’s Day” on it with gold paint. Set it on newspaper once again to dry and then fill the jar with pennies. Your child will be delighted with their pot of gold!

Leprechaun Rainbows

For an extra special and extra lucky rainbow to go with those pots of gold, all you need is: paper plates, scissors, markers, a hole punch, and string. Cut the paper plates in half. Using the markers, draw lines as the colours of the rainbow on the plate halves. The stripes of the rainbow can be as thin or thick as the child likes, just make sure that they cover the entire plate. A hole punch can then be made in the top of the plate and a string placed through the hole and knotted at the base of the string. These can now be hung up as wonderful St. Patrick Day decorations!

St. Paddy’s Wreath

This wreath is easy to make and adds wonderful décor to the door of any home or classroom. You will need: Styrofoam wreath, shamrock-shaped foam cut outs, black pot of gold shaped foam cut outs, yellow foam circles, gold glitter, a claddagh decoration (this is a decoration in the shape of ring with two hands holding a crowned heart), green acrylic paint, paintbrush and glue.

Start by painting the wreath green and allowing it to dry completely. Then glue the shamrocks onto the wreath. You can place these strategically or you can cover the entire wreath with them, which provides a nice look. Then glue the yellow foam pieces to the black pot of gold pieces and allow them to dry completely. When they are completely dry, turn them over and put glue on the front. Cover the glue completely with gold glitter. Once this glue is entirely dry, glue them onto the wreath.

Cover the bottoms of the yellow foam circles with glue and sprinkle these with gold glitter as well. You can then glue these circles together as groupings of three (to resemble coins.) Once they are completely dry, glue them onto the wreath.

Finish the wreath off by gluing the claddagh onto the bottom of the wreath.