Shamrock Craft

 If you're trying to get in the St Patrick's Day spirit with a cute craft for your kiddos, try this...

We have shamrocks galore in our backyard this time of year, so this was a perfect way to get my kids outside for a while, while they collected enough shamrocks.

When my kids were busy collecting, I drew a big pot on a piece of card stock. Then I took a nail and poked many, many holes in the paper.

My kids then stuck the stems of the shamrocks through those holes until their pots were overflowing. This was great for my 5 year old's hand-eye coordination! 

I got this idea from a video I saw of someone drawing a vase, and then filling the vase with fresh flowers from outside (if you know the source, please share it with me!).

More than a pot of gold

Last year, my then 5 year old made this for St. Patrick’s Day…

In his writing, it says “My family is worth more to me than gold”

I think it’s the perfect reminder of where our priorities should be and I love that his teacher was instilling this in her class of kindergarteners!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Rainbow Mosaic

St Patrick’s Day is almost here. We have spring break on March 17th so I’m sure I will have to come up with lots of leprechaun theme activities for my boys, but we recently made a rainbow mosaic. At first my boys complained that it was too much work but once they got into it, they seemed to enjoy adding colors. Here’s how we made ours:

Fruit Loops Rainbow

If you’re looking for a fun, St Patrick’s related craft to do with young kids, you have to make a Fruit Loops Rainbow! This is easily adaptable to various ages from kids doing everything themselves to you spreading glue and your kids putting the cereal on.

K knew the order of the colors (backwards) and put all the cereal on himself. C ate all the cereal he could get his hands on…