4 Fun (Easy & Inexpensive) St. Patrick's Day Crafts

We love holidays in this house. And now that we have three kiddos who can get excited about decorating, each holiday has brought on new excitement and cheer.

After Valentine’s Day was over, the boys begged their daddy to go in the attic to retrieve our St. Patrick’s Day regalia. As he handed down the box, I realized: we have very little St. Patrick’s day stuff! How did I let this travesty occur?! (Easy answer: three kids in less than 4 years will make your priorities go elsewhere.)

As I pulled out the measly bear, candle, and green beads (ok, we also had some plastic mugs and a beer hat), the boys just sort of sat there with this frozen half smile on their faces. I know they were thinking, “Where is the rest!?” After all, our other holidays had decked out the house.

That’s when I decided: we will make our own.

I’m not much of a fan of crafts that can’t be used over and over, so we took to Pinterest to find ideas that they could make, enjoy, not break the bank, and potentially store away to use year after year.

After a little bit of searching, we found 4 fun St. Patrick’s Day crafts that will neither take a thousand years or break the bank.

Cereal Rainbows!

My boys love this stupid fruity cereal, and it dawned on me that we could make a craft out of it! I decided to make it as much a learning experience as anything else. So, we started by separating the cereal by color. I was proud of Flash (2) for being able to do this without much thought.

Then, I drew glue dots and lines on the paper for them to apply the cereal. This is good for fine motor skills. The Animal (4) was very methodical about it (not a shocker), and Flash just enjoyed touching the glue.

What we ended up with were two pretty great rainbows! We have them hanging up in our playroom, but I doubt I’ll hold on to these until next year considering the mice and bugs would enjoy them in the attic.

Rainbow Confetti Windows!

Another obsession my boys have is cutting paper. We discovered they could wield the scissors pretty well without injuring themselves or other people. This prompted me to get out the old wax paper for a craft that we could definitely keep.

We used the construction paper we had on hand to let them cut up the paper into small pieces. Then, we layered the pieces on wax paper (would have been better to spread them out into one single layer) and placed another piece of wax paper on top. The iron helped me basically laminate the “windows.” (I’d like to point out that I know there’s no purple in this rainbow. I’m not sure what happened at the construction paper maker place.)

Then, we created frames out of green construction paper. What isn’t shown is the stickers the boys used to decorate the frames. We had some old St. Patrick’s day stickers, and they used those fine motor skills again to remove them from the sticker paper and apply to their frames.

Rainbow Shamrocks and Coins!

Flash was determined that we should use more glue, so we decided to make shamrocks and add rainbows to them. This was pretty easy except that my freehand of a shamrock could use some work.

I just cut strips of the multiple colors of construction paper and drew a line of glue across the back of the shamrock shape. Flash did the rest by adding the strips to the glue.

The end result was pretty cute. He was very proud of himself. (The Animal had a chance to make his own, too, when he got home from school. Then, they applied stickers because…stickers.)

Flash wanted to make a second one, so we made a big coin!

Hand Print 4 Leaf Clover

On Pinterest, I saw the cutest idea for using your kids’ hand prints to make a four leaf clover. I thought: I have 4 kids! This is perfect!

I started with Miss Sassy Pants (11) and went around clockwise with each of the kids’ hands. I was amazed that we got a decent hand print from Baby Diva (10 months).

I think it turned out pretty well, and I have since added a rainbow to the bottom right corner with a pot of gold beneath it.

Check out these Lucky posts from my Blog with Friends buddies. You won’t regret it:

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Need some decor for your door? Someone Else’s Genius has a Shamrock Wreath. How fun is this? I think we need to add this to our craft list.

Spatulas on Parade brings us a Lucky 3 Cheese Spread. I know my people love some cheese. Going to add this to our must-haves!

Why wait on luck to find you? Make your own! Home on Deranged has you covered with 7 Tips to Making Your Own Luck.

I’m always searching for a shirt to wear on St. Patrick’s Day. The Liebers shows us how we can easily make our own Lucky T-shirts.

A review of a book about luck from My Brain on Kids: Lucky Us by Amy Bloom.

 

 

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