Easy St. Patrick's Day Crafts
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Impress your friends and family with easy St. Patrick’s Day crafts.
Ideas for Fun and Easy St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
Even if you’re a crafting novice, you can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by completing simple projects that channel the “spirit of the Irish.”
Greeting Cards
Making your own St. Patrick’s Day greeting cards is a great way to show your appreciation for your friends and family on this special day. Cards can be made using stickers, rubber stamps, and patterned paper scraps left over from previous craft projects.
Of course, traditional St. Patrick’s Day color schemes tend to center on shades of green, yellow, and brown. However, don’t be afraid to experiment with your card making projects. For example, hot pink and lime green can provide a fun and funky color scheme for a modern St. Patrick’s Day card. Purple and green is also a eye-catching color combination.
If you’re on a tight budget and need to create greeting cards for a large group of people, make your own shamrock-print stamp by carving a potato. You can even use your stamp to design matching envelopes. (Children can make potato stamps with adult supervision.)
Treat Containers
Treat containers make quick and easy St. Patrick’s Day crafts. Decorate small paper bags, shoeboxes, or plastic Chinese food containers with stickers, markers, crayons, punched paper shamrocks, and ribbons. Fill your treat containers with one of the following homemade goodies:
Or course, if you’re not in the mood to bake, you can also fill your treat containers with St. Patrick’s Day candy purchased from one of the following retailers:
After St. Patrick’s Day has passed, your treat containers can be recycled as lucky treasure boxes used to store trinkets, photos, and other memorabilia.
St. Patrick’s Day T-Shirts
Wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day is a tradition for many people, even those who aren’t of Irish ancestry. Fortunately, homemade t-shirts make easy St. Patrick’s Day crafts and stylish additions to any wardrobe.
Even preschoolers can design their own St. Patrick’s Day t-shirts using green fabric paint and markers. However, if you’re looking for something with a bit more polish, use St. Patrick’s Day clip art and t-shirt transfer paper to create your own wearable art project. For extra sparkle, don’t be afraid to break out your BeDazzler and some rhinestones to your St. Patrick’s Day t-shirt.
If you want to make a completely coordinating ensemble, use your leftover supplies to personalize a plain canvas book bag, a baseball cap, or a pair of white sneakers.
Coloring Pages
You can find free St. Patrick’s Day coloring pages online at the following websites:
- Free St. Patrick’s Day coloring pages
- Billy Bear’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration
- St. Patrick’s Day coloring pages from the Coloring Castle
- Irish-themed coloring pages
If your children need easy St. Patrick’s Day crafts for their teachers or grandparents, have them color an Irish-themed picture and place it in an inexpensive green frame that has been decorated with shamrock or leprechaun stickers. Alternatively, you can have your child’s artwork laminated to create washable St. Patrick’s Day placemats.
While coloring pages are fun for children, older crafters can also use them to create paper piecing patterns for scrapbook layouts and other St. Patrick’s Day themed crafts.
Supplies for St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
Most of the supplies you’ll need for your St. Patrick’s Day crafts can be purchased at a large craft store such as Hobby Lobby or Michaels Crafts. However, if you’re having trouble buying supplies locally, you can also find St. Patrick’s Day themed supplies on the following websites:
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