Fun Pot of Gold Crafts for Kids – St Patricks Day Ideas

February 14, 2026 by Sarah White Leave a Comment

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by making some fun pot of gold crafts.

Jen Around the World has a cute pot of gold made out of a flower pot and filled with Rolos. This might be one to make for kids instead of with kids, but if you use a plastic pot and stickers little kids could make it, too.

If you don’t want to include candy in your pot of gold you could also make your own gold nuggets out of rocks. This tutorial from Moms and Crafters shows you how.

Make a rainbow paper chain and a pot of gold with this easy craft from Crafty Morning. These would be fun as classroom decorations hanging from the ceiling if you want.

Printabulls has a collection of pot of gold coloring pages you can use as they are or use as templates for other craft projects. SB Digital Designs also has a printable pot of gold and rainbow craft you can color and assemble to make a three-dimensional pot if you like.

Joy in Crafting has a cool paper craft for making a three-dimensional pot of gold out of cardstock. The post includes a cut file but there’s also a template you can use and cut out by hand if you don’t have a cutting machine.

There’s a nice collection of pot of gold, rainbow and leprechaun crafts over at Our Kid Things. I like this thumbprint pot of gold craft idea.

These last ones are videos but they’re super cute so I wanted to include them. CraftISH Corner has a cute pot of gold and rainbow craft made with a paper plate and some pompoms or cotton balls.

And Crafting with Lona has a fun floating cauldron and gold coin DIY made with supplies from the dollar store. Since these involve hot glue they’re probably good for adults or older kids to make rather than letting the little ones make them.

Candy Pot of Gold and a Free St. Patrick’s Day Printable [Edible Crafts]

Cutting Practice for St. Patrick’s Day

Cross Stitch Pot of Gold for St. Patty’s Day [Cross-Stitch]

Hanging Rainbow St. Patrick’s Day Craft

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Fine Motor Task Cards for Kids

I don’t know why Pinterest just suddenly decided I needed to see all the content about task cards and task boxes for kids, but these ideas are great for the classroom to keep in centers or have on hand for early finishers. You can also use them at home as quiet bags or boxes for kids to use when younger siblings might be sleeping, or in the car for a non-screen activity.

Let’s take a look at some fine motor skill task cards and how you can use them to teach kids skills while they play.

Pre-K Pages has a nice set of playdough task cards you can use in boxes or bags with a little tray (or they can just work on the table if they are sitting at a table). Working with clay or play dough is a great fine motor skill exercise, or you can add these to your playdough center if you have one to give them a little bit of direction while they work.

Teaching Mama has a bunch of great ideas for fine motor task boxes, from practicing working a glue bottle to threading beads, using clothespins or scissors, dropping water, finger painting and more. There’s a free printable that shows all the task options she talks through in the post if you want to make your own little boxes, or just keep these ideas on hand when you’re ready to add some fine motor fun to your days.

One of the ideas she mentions in that post is working with a hole punch, and Early Learning Ideas has a whole bunch (the urge to write “hole bunch” is strong) of ideas for printables that help kids practice hole punching, whether it’s a strip with circles on it for them to punch or pictures that include circles for punching, these ideas make it a little more fun to practice this important skill.

My Happy Place Teaching has a whole post about using fine motor task boxes in kindergarten, and her paid resource includes more than 100 task ideas with printables. But if you don’t need 100 boxes you can still get some good ideas from this post about different tasks to include and why and when you can use them. She also mentions using them in the morning while you’re busy with kids coming in at different times, which is a great idea.

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