A pot of gold {St Patrick’s Day craft}

A couple of weeks ago we had loads of fun making our own salt dough leprechaun gold coins. There’s loads of imagery around St Patrick’s Day but my 3 year old really loved talking about rainbows so we thought we’d make our own, with handprints.

He’s a great age for directing his own crafting (which is kind of scary!) so we got out the supplies together : white paper, paint tray and red, orange, yellow, green and blue paints.

I squeezed the paint out whilst he sponged it over one hand, pressing it down on the paper until he had a rainbow of handprints.

Then we left it to dry, needless to say he went crazy with the remaining paint

To finish it off we added our little black paper pot and a handful of leprechaun gold – just what you’d want to find at the end of a rainbow.