St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Kids

It’s just about time to get out all your green (and rainbow colored!) craft supplies and start making St. Patrick’s Day crafts. Here are a few ideas to get you started, whether you’re making with one kid or a classroom.

Make a Celtic knot with pipe cleaners with these instructions from Raise Curious Kids. It would be easy to make a whole garland to decorate the classroom if the kids get into it. They could be green, green and orange like shown here for the Irish flag, or in rainbow colors.

Speaking of garlands, you can make strips of paper into a chain of shamrocks with this tutorial from Blissful Domestication. This shows using a stapler, but if you’re making it with little kids you can use glue (stick or dots would probably be easiest) instead.

Or all the kids can make chains in rainbow colors to make this pot of gold craft from Crafty Morning. Leave it short like the one shown or make a bunch of chains to turn it into a door or wall decoration.

I love a good “stained glass” project made with tissue paper and clear, sticky paper, so why not make some shamrock suncatchers like these from Kids Activity Zone? Or use chalk pastels and dark paper to make these cool shamrocks from Projects with Kids. They’re so pretty!

One cool thing about shamrocks is that the leaves look like hearts, so if you can make a heart shape you can make a shamrock. These paper shamrocks from DIY Inspired use a heart-shaped paper punch, which makes it fast, but you could also use a cookie cutter or paper template to trace the heart shapes and cut them out by hand. Always looking for ways to build those fine motor skills! Also you could use a pipe cleaner for the stem instead of floral wire, or just glue the hearts to a piece of paper to make shamrocks or clover.

If you have kids with sewing skills, they can use felt cut into not-quite heart shapes to make a sweet little felt four leaf clover form Molly and Mama. Use them to decorate hair clips, make decorations and more.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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