St. Patrick’s Day Crafts

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Growing up St. Patrick’s Day was never a big deal at our house; wearing green that day was as big as it got.  This year my husband surprised me by suggesting we hide some “gold” (A.K.A. chocolate) coins for the kids.  Not to be outdone by Daddy’s fun idea, I thought we would do a few crafts to prepare for the gold hunt.

The first one we did was super easy.

We made our own little Leprechauns using mini paper plates I found while cleaning out the basement and some construction paper.  preschooler St. Patrick's Day craft

I knew my daughter would like some fun curls for her girl Leprechaun, so I curled a few strips of orange paper.  And, of course, cut out a bow for her hat.

Little guy was happy with his traditional (and easy to put together) boy Leprechaun.  He had fun drawing the face after all the pieces were glued onto the plate.paper plate craft

 

My daughter is really in to drawing rainbows lately, so, of course, we HAD to make a rainbow with a pot of gold.

For this one I cut the colored tissue paper up into small squares ahead of time.  Then I drew the rainbows on the paper for them, allowing plenty of space in each row for them to glue lots of colored squares.

Once they had their rainbows complete, they glued on the paper pots and “gold” (cut with a hole punch from an old gift bag).  St. Patrick's Day craft

I love how their individual tastes shine through in these!

preschooler St. Patrick's Day craft
Don’t you just love Peanut’s cheetah print pot of gold and little Leprechaun?

 

Did you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day growing up?  Do you do anything special for it now?

 

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  2. Peanut is a girl after my own heart! I am so going to do this with my little Hooligans.(notice the Irish reference)

    • LOVE the Irish reference! No one even notices if I make a pun or say something funny like that around here…. Sometimes I save it for my husband, who just rolls his eyes…

  5. We LOVE St. Patrick’s Day at our house, and we do what I did growing up. We wear green on the day but the kids wake up to see “leprechaun footprints” in the house and they follow it to some treasure (usually gold coin chocolates). We also leave a treat for the leprechaun the night before. Sometimes try to make a “trap” and we watch Irish movies at home! PS. Love your pot of gold rainbow pics! So cute!
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    • Okay, I LOVE the footprint idea!
      My husband was suggesting hiding the gold coins; we might just have to have little footprints to follow!

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