Looking for fun St. Patrick’s Day crafts for kids? Here are 26 creative and easy projects that celebrate the holiday with rainbows, shamrocks, leprechauns, and pots of gold—perfect for home or classroom activities.
1) Leprechaun Paper Plate Mask
This simple yet entertaining craft transforms ordinary paper plates into wearable leprechaun masks. Children can use paint sticks to create the signature orange beard, which helps contain the mess compared to regular paint brushes. Cut green construction paper to form the leprechaun’s hat and attach it to the top of the plate. For those who want to add extra flair, consider adding details like rosy cheeks or freckles with markers.
This craft works well for preschoolers through elementary-aged children and provides a fun way for kids to role-play during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.
2) Paper Shamrock Wreath
A paper shamrock wreath makes for beautiful door decoration that clearly announces your St. Patrick’s Day spirit. This craft involves folding green paper in various shades to create a gradient effect of shamrocks arranged in a circle. While it requires some patience to fold each individual clover, the stunning result justifies the effort. Parents can pre-cut the paper for younger children, while older kids can handle the entire process themselves.
This craft also teaches children about color gradients and pattern arrangement while creating a festive decoration that can be displayed throughout March.
3) DIY Paper Award Ribbons
These festive award ribbons serve a dual purpose—they’re fun to make and they ensure everyone wears green on St. Patrick’s Day to avoid getting pinched. Using free printable templates makes this craft quick and easy. Children can customize their ribbons with messages like “Lucky Charm” or “100% Irish” and wear them proudly. The ribbons can also be used as party favors or prizes for St. Patrick’s Day games.
This craft works especially well for classroom settings where each child can create their own personalized award.
4) Shamrock Wand
Why should fairies and wizards have all the fun with wands? A shamrock wand encourages imaginative play while celebrating the holiday. Children can decorate their wands with glitter, sequins, and ribbons to create a magical tool for granting “lucky” wishes. The wand consists of a wooden dowel as the handle with a shamrock shape attached to the top, often made from green felt. Rainbow yarn and gold ribbon add colorful finishing touches that children can customize to their liking.
It combines creativity with pretend play, making it particularly appealing to children who enjoy fantasy stories.
5) St. Patrick’s Day Oreos
Edible crafts combine creativity with a tasty reward, making them especially popular with children. This simple treat involves dipping regular Oreos in green candy melts and decorating them with festive sprinkles. The entire process takes about 30 minutes, making it perfect for a quick kitchen activity. Children enjoy both the decorating process and, of course, eating their creations afterward.
This craft teaches basic food decoration skills while providing a festive snack that can be shared with family or classmates.
6) Fruit Loop Rainbow
This colorful craft requires only paper, glue, and Fruit Loops cereal to create a vibrant rainbow. Children sort the cereal by color, creating an opportunity to practice color recognition skills. Parents or teachers can draw curved lines on paper as guides for each color, and children then glue the appropriate colored cereal pieces along each line. Cotton balls can be added at the ends to represent clouds.
This activity combines fine motor skill practice with a lesson in color sorting, and many children enjoy snacking on extra cereal while they work.
7) Rainbow Pizza
For a savory alternative to sweet edible crafts, this rainbow pizza turns mealtime into art time. Using various colorful vegetables arranged in a rainbow pattern on pizza dough, children create an appetizing and nutritious meal. Red tomatoes, orange carrots, yellow peppers, green broccoli, blue purple cabbage, and purple eggplant can all be used to form the rainbow.
This craft encourages picky eaters to try new vegetables while learning about healthy eating habits. The activity also teaches children about food preparation and presentation skills.
8) Shamrock Slime
What child doesn’t love playing with slime? This St. Patrick’s Day version incorporates green coloring and glitter for a festive twist. The basic slime recipe requires just three ingredients, making it an accessible craft for most families. Children enjoy the sensory experience of mixing and stretching the slime, which can keep them entertained for hours. Parents can add tiny shamrock confetti or gold glitter to enhance the theme.
This activity provides tactile stimulation while allowing children to experiment with different textures and consistencies.
9) Pot of Gold Slime
Similar to shamrock slime but with a golden twist, this variation uses gold glitter and coloring to represent a leprechaun’s treasure. The slime’s stretchy, gooey texture fascinates children while providing sensory input. The simple three-ingredient recipe makes this an easy craft to prepare, even for busy parents or teachers. Children can store their slime in small containers decorated to look like pots, completing the thematic connection.
This craft works well as part of a larger St. Patrick’s Day unit about leprechaun folklore and traditions.
10) Shamrock Handprint Craft
Handprint crafts create lasting mementos that families cherish as children grow. For this St. Patrick’s Day version, children press their painted hands onto paper to create shamrock shapes. Four handprints arranged with fingertips meeting in the center form a four-leaf clover, while a painted stem completes the image.
This craft preserves the size of children’s hands at a specific age, creating a keepsake parents will treasure. The activity also allows for sensory exploration as children experience the paint on their hands.
11) Leprechaun Handprint Craft
Another variation of handprint art, this craft uses skin-colored paint on the palm and orange paint on the fingers to create a leprechaun face with a beard. After the handprint dries, children add details like a green hat, eyes, and a smile to complete the leprechaun.
This craft combines sensory play with fine motor skill practice as children add the facial features. The finished product makes a charming keepsake that documents a child’s growth while celebrating the holiday.
12) Lucky Footprint Four-Leaf Clover
While handprint crafts are common, footprint art offers a unique alternative. This craft uses green painted footprints arranged in a four-leaf clover pattern. Parents apply green paint to the bottom of their child’s foot and help them press it onto paper four times, arranging the prints so the heels meet in the center. A painted stem completes the shamrock.
This craft works especially well for babies and toddlers who might struggle with more complex activities but creates a meaningful keepsake for parents of children of any age.
13) Cardboard Tube Rainbow Blowers
This craft repurposes toilet paper tubes into colorful rainbow blowers that children can use to create streaming rainbows when they blow through them. The tubes are painted in bright colors, and strips of tissue paper in rainbow hues are attached to one end. When children blow through the unpainted end, the tissue paper streams out in a rainbow effect.
This craft combines art with a simple science lesson about air movement. Children enjoy both making and playing with these rainbow blowers, making this a craft with lasting entertainment value.
14) Shamrock Suncatcher
Suncatchers bring a touch of magic when hung near windows where sunlight can shine through them. For this craft, children cut out shamrock shapes from clear contact paper or laminating sheets, then fill them with small pieces of green tissue paper in various shades. When completed and hung in a window, the light creates a stained-glass effect.
This craft teaches children about transparency and light while creating a beautiful decoration. The varying shades of green tissue paper create depth and visual interest in the finished product.
15) Windsocks
Windsocks make perfect St. Patrick’s Day decorations that move with the breeze. Children decorate green construction paper cylinders with shamrock shapes cut using cookie cutters, then attach strips of green crepe paper to the bottom. When hung outdoors or near a vent, the crepe paper streams flow in the wind.
This craft combines art with a simple lesson about air movement. The finished windsocks can be hung from porches, trees, or classroom ceilings to create a festive atmosphere.
16) DIY St. Patrick’s Day Sign
A homemade sign welcomes visitors with holiday cheer and can be completed in about 15 minutes. Children paint wooden plaques green and add lettering using stencils with phrases like “Lucky” or “Irish Blessing.” Decorative elements such as pom-poms, glitter, or small shamrock cutouts add finishing touches.
This craft allows for personalization while creating holiday decor. Even young children can participate by helping to glue decorations or paint within pre-drawn boundaries.
17) Leprechaun Trap
Building a leprechaun trap has become a popular St. Patrick’s Day tradition for many families. Children design and construct traps using shoeboxes or other containers, decorating them with rainbows, shamrocks, and gold coins as bait. Some designs include ladders to help leprechauns climb up, only to fall through trap doors.
This craft encourages problem-solving and engineering skills while sparking imagination. Parents can enhance the magic by leaving small treats or green footprints near the trap overnight.
18) Leprechaun Lookers
These special “binoculars” help children search for elusive leprechauns. Made from two decorated toilet paper tubes taped together and embellished with green paper, stickers, and ribbons, these viewers keep children engaged in imaginative play. Parents report that this craft provides significant downtime as children actively search for leprechauns throughout the house or classroom.
This activity combines craft-making with pretend play, extending the enjoyment beyond the initial creation process.
19) Rainbow Binoculars
Similar to Leprechaun Lookers but with a rainbow theme, these binoculars are made by taping two toilet paper tubes together and decorating them with strips of colored paper in rainbow order. Children can add shamrocks or gold coins as additional decorations. These binoculars encourage outdoor exploration as children search for rainbows or leprechauns.
The craft teaches color sequence while providing a tool for imaginative play. Teachers often use this craft as part of units on weather or light refraction.
20) Shamrock Rings
These simple rings made from pipe cleaners demonstrate how basic materials can transform into wearable art. Children twist green pipe cleaners into shamrock shapes and form the remaining length into a circle sized for their finger.
The craft requires minimal materials but teaches valuable skills in shaping and forming materials. Children enjoy wearing their creations, which also serve the practical purpose of showing they’re wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day to avoid getting pinched.
21) Wire and Bead Shamrock Earrings
For older children with more developed fine motor skills, creating shamrock-shaped earrings from wire and beads offers a more sophisticated craft option. Basic jewelry-making supplies like thin gauge wire, green beads, and earring hooks are all that’s needed. The finished earrings feature delicate shamrock shapes with pearl beads as accents.
This craft activity teaches jewelry-making techniques while creating wearable accessories that extend beyond the holiday. This activity works best for tweens and teens who can handle the precision required.
22) Lucky DIY Rainbow Headphones
For music-loving kids who want to show their St. Patrick’s Day spirit, decorating headphones with rainbow paper crafts adds a festive touch to everyday items. Children cut strips of colored paper and attach them to the headband portion of their headphones, creating a rainbow arch.
This activity personalizes electronics while celebrating the holiday. The activity works well for older children and teens who want subtle holiday accessories rather than more obvious decorations.
23) Shamrock Button Covers
These clever button covers allow children to add holiday flair to regular clothing. Made from green felt cut into shamrock shapes with slits for buttons to pass through, these accessories transform any buttoned shirt into St. Patrick’s Day wear. Children can also adapt the design to create shoe clips or hair accessories.
This craft teaches problem-solving as children figure out how to attach their creations to different items. The versatility of this craft makes it appealing to children of various ages.
24) Shamrocks and Gold Nuggets Painted Rocks
Rock painting has become increasingly popular, and this St. Patrick’s Day version involves painting shamrocks and gold nuggets on smooth stones. Children can use acrylic paints to create detailed designs or simpler patterns depending on their skill level. The finished rocks can be displayed in gardens, used as paperweights, or hidden around the neighborhood for others to find.
This craft combines art with potential community engagement if families choose to participate in rock hiding activities that have become popular in many communities.
25) Rainbow Sponge Painting
This technique uses sponges cut into shapes or simple squares to create textured rainbow paintings. The process requires less fine motor control than brush painting, making it accessible to younger children. Parents or teachers can pre-cut sponges into cloud or shamrock shapes for themed paintings. Children dip the sponges in different colors of paint and press them onto paper in rainbow order.
This activity teaches color recognition and sequencing while producing vibrant artwork suitable for holiday decorations.
26) Q-Tip Painted Shamrock
For a fine motor skill challenge, children can use Q-tips as painting tools to create dotted shamrock designs. This technique, sometimes called pointillism, involves making many small dots that together form a larger image. Children dip the Q-tip in green paint and create dots within a shamrock outline.
This craft requires patience and precision but produces distinctive artwork with interesting texture. The activity helps develop hand control and concentration while creating holiday-themed art.
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