Paper Plate Leprechaun

Today we made an easy Leprechaun with a few simple things that we had on hand.

1. Paint a paper plate.

2. When it's dry, glue some yarn around the outside edge of the plate to create a beard.

3. Make a hat from green construction paper and decorate it any way you like. We added a gold buckle.

4. Glue that hat on the top of the plate, add a face and your Leprechaun is complete!

Toilet Paper Roll Leprechauns

1. Paint a toilet paper tube green.

2. When it dries, trace the end of it onto green paper.

3. Make a bigger circle around the area you traced and then cut it out to form a doughnut shape.

4. Slide the circle over the top of the toilet paper tube to create a hat.

5. Paint an oval for the face, just below the hat.

6. Glue on some pieces of yarn to form a beard.

7. Add some arms cut from construction paper.

8. Draw a face on and you have yourself a "wee little Leprechaun"!

Rainbow in a Jar-Salt Art

I have never met a kid that doesn't like to do sand art and of course my girls are no exception. Today we made rainbow sand art only the "sand" is actually salt that we colored with some food coloring.

They layered the colored salt in rainbow order,

and because it's been rumored that there is gold at the end of every rainbow, we added a layer of gold glitter.

 

They turned out great!

Torn Paper Shamrock

Every time we do a craft involving construction paper, I save the scraps to use later. This is one of those projects that uses up some of our scraps.

1. Tear some green construction paper into small pieces. Madelyn always has fun tearing paper!

2. While she was tearing up the scraps, I cut a shamrock out of an old cereal box.

 

3. Spread some glue on the shamrock.

 

4. Glue the scraps all over it.

You have an easy peasy shamrock. :)

Leprechauns

We are finally starting to work on some St. Patrick's Day decorations for around the house. My favorite color is green, so these projects are perfect;0) Today we made Leprechauns out of toilet paper tubes.

1. Paint a toilet paper tube green.


2. When it dries, trace the end of it onto green paper.


3. Make a bigger circle around the area you traced and then cut it out to form a doughnut shape.


4. Slide the circle over the top of the toilet paper tube to create a hat.


5. Paint an oval for the face, just below the hat.


6. Glue on some pieces of yarn to form a beard.


7. Add some arms cut from construction paper.


8. Draw a face on and you have yourself a "wee little Leprechaun"!


I posted the pictures of mine because the girls used so much green paint that they will probably take a day to dry so they can finish them.