Leprechaun Crafts for Kids

Leprechauns are a fun aspect of St. Patrick’s Day, whether you are building leprechaun traps as a STEM activity or creating leprechaun art and crafts projects.

Here are a few fun leprechaun projects to make with your kids while reading a St. Patrick’s Day story or doing other themed activities.

These leprechaun finger puppets from I Heart Crafty Things are super cute, easy for kids to assemble and give those fingers an important workout. Use them in storytelling or create a game where kids need to do something with their fingers (collect pom-poms or other small objects, for example) while they are “wearing” the puppet.

MomBrite has a super cute printable leprechaun bookmark template where the little guy holds your place and peeks over the edge of the book. We always love crafts that also encourage reading!

This little leprechaun from Party and Bright would be perfect for adding to a greeting card or putting into a holiday themed scene. He has lots of parts so that’s a great fine-motor skill practice for the kids.

I love these super cute leprechaun bottle gnomes, which are a great project for older kids who can work safely with hot glue guns. Why should little ones have all the crafty fun? Grab the tutorial from Everyday Best.

Make a personalized leprechaun craft with this paper handprint leprechaun from Simple Everyday Mom or this one made with paint from Coffee and Carpool.

Or let kids practice lacing and tying knots with this paper plate leprechaun craft from Non Toy Gifts. So cute!

Growing Up Ladybug and How to Become a Butterfly are both by Stepanka Sekaninova and illustrated by Linh Dao, and they came out at the same time and are on similar themes, so let’s look at them together.

Growing Up Ladybug is narrated by Mariella, a seven-spot ladybug. She talks about the parts of a ladybug, where they live, different kinds of ladybugs, why humans love them, their defenses against predators and the life cycle of a ladybug.

The drawings are cute if not always scientifically accurate, it’s not in such a way that’s likely to confuse kids (who probably already know that ladybug mamas don’t push their larval babies around in strollers, for instance.

It’s a good general description of the life cycle of a lady bug and why we like having them around.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

Similarly, How to Become a Butterfly covers the life cycle of a butterfly, starting with caterpillars eating burning nettle leaves. (Here Amanda is the narrator.) The book talks about a few of the more than 18,000 daytime butterflies in the world as well as other creatures that live in the meadow (there’s that ladybug again, along with crickets, bees and other bugs).

It also covers some of the enemies of caterpillars like wasps and spiders, and the defenses that caterpillars use to try to prevent being eaten. It illustrates how caterpillars grow and change as they molt and prepare to pupate, and what a caterpillar looks like before and while it is forming its chrysalis. And while the book uses the word metamorphasis it doesn’t really talk about what happens between the caterpillar forming a chrysalis and the butterfly hatching.

This butterfly is a peacock butterfly, and once it hatches the book covers the parts of a butterfly and the life cycle. It also talks about nocturnal moths (though it says nocturnal butterflies are “usually called moths” when moths are actually a different species) and what butterflies do at night.

I’m maybe a little hard on this book because my daughter is a butterfly expert from way back, but it is still cute and good for the very basic basics of the butterfly life cycle.

Both books would be fun additions to your bookshelf for younger kids starting to learn about different animals or who have an interest in insects.

About the book: 32 pages, hardcover. Published 2026 by Albatross Media. Suggested retail price $16.95.

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