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.
10 Comments
Jo Middleton
March 2, 2014 at 8:33 pmsuch a cute craft idea!
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ghostwritermummy
March 27, 2014 at 12:20 pmOh that’s so cute! Love it 🙂
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TheBoyandMe
February 24, 2015 at 11:53 pmThis is so sweet, and I bet he completely loved doing it.
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Pinkoddy
March 1, 2015 at 5:09 pmMy boys would love this and so simple – thank you for sharing
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