It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day and we can feel the luck in the air over here at JumpStart. Lucky for you, we’re going to share two festive crafts that you and your children can do together!
Our first leprechaun craft is great for older kids, so they can have their own leprechaun cup to place coins in, as if the leprechaun is protecting his pot of gold! The second, simple craft places a pot-of-gold at the end of a rainbow as a door handle decoration and is probably best for your younger children, but even older ones might find it fun!
The Crafty Leprechaun
The Crafty Leprechaun
What You’ll Need:
- 12. oz paper cup (like those used for coffee)
- 2 Green and 2 orange pipe cleaners
- Green, peach, yellow, and black construction paper (one small sheet each)
- Green paint
- One pair of googly eyes
- A black pen, black marker, and red marker (or pen)
- Glue
Here’s what do do:
- Paint the paper cup green and let it dry.
- Cut out a circle from the peach construction paper. Make sure it’s big enough to hide the cup’s rim when looking at it straight on.
- Cut out a hat from the green construction paper and make sure the brim is a little bit wider than the peach circle that will create the head.
- Use a black marker to make a band on the hat, but leave room in the middle for a buckle!
- Cut out 3 small squares from the yellow construction paper and then cut out their middles for the hat’s and shoes’ buckles!
- Glue a buckle onto the center of the hat and then glue the hat onto the top third of the peach circle.
- Glue the googly eyes a little under the brim of the hat.
- Draw a nose in black pen and a mouth in red marker (or pen) and then set the face aside.
- Coil an entire orange pipe cleaner around a pencil or pen and slip it off.
- Glue the ends of the coil onto the peach circle, making a beard.
- Cut two small, straight pieces from another orange pipe cleaner and glue these above the googly eyes for eyebrows.
- Glue the head onto the cup to cover near a third of the cup in length.
- Take one green pipe cleaner and make a small loop at one end (secure it by wrapping a small part around).
Make a loop in the pipe cleaner right next to the one you just made and twist it so it stays in place. It should now resemble a flower stem with leaves. Take the straight edge and make a third loop that meets the other two in the center, making a clover shape!
- Repeat the previous step again for the other hand.
- Attach one on each side of the cup using tape or glue.
- Cut out two small shoe-shaped pieces from the black paper and glue one yellow buckle to each shoe before gluing them to the bottom of the cup.
The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow
What You’ll Need
- Paper plate
- Scissors
- 1 sheet of yellow and 1 sheet of green construction paper
- Black marker
- Markers for each color of the rainbow
- Gold and green glitter (optional)
- Glue or tape
Here’s what to do
- Cut a half-circle into the bottom of the plate.
- Cut out two pie-shaped pieces on the edge of the plate where the half-circle’s corners line up.
- Have your child color a rainbow that follows the arch of the half-circle
- Color the rest of the plate with black marker and be sure to color in a pot rim at the corners of the half-circle
- Take the yellow construction paper and cut out a shape that resembles a pile of coins, making it as long as the diameter of the half-circle.
- Run a clear glue stick over the “pile of coins” and sprinkle gold glitter over the construction paper to make it look real!
- Glue or tape this to the back of the paper plate with the glittery side facing frontward
- Cut out the shape of a shamrock from the green construction paper and glue it to the center of the pot. Optionally glue green glitter to it.
- Hang it on any door knob in the house!
Have fun making these crafts with your children! They are a pot-of-fun!
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