• Clay fingerprint St Patrick's Day craft for kids
    Crafts for kids - St Patrick's Day crafts

    Clay fingerprint St Patrick’s Day craft for kids

    February 21, 2018 - By 

    Sometimes I’m not sure if we should celebrate St Patrick’s Day in our crafting or not. We have an Irish surname but no real connection to Ireland. But then I think that my children are taught every Saints Day at school so why shouldn’t we do something at home too. We’ve had quite a lot of fun with St Patrick’s Day crafts before which you can see here. Today we’re going to add our air-drying clay fingerprint shamrock craft for kids to them. Equipment to make clay fingerprint St Patrick’s Day craft four leaf clover shaped cookie cutter Air-drying clay…

  • Shamrock sun catcher craft for St Patrick's Day
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    Shamrock sun catcher craft

    February 17, 2016 - By 

    It’s been a while since we made any sun catchers to brighten the room, but with St Patrick’s Day coming up next month, it seemed the perfect time. We have Irish ancestry but I admit we don’t go all out to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Shamrock sun catcher craft The shamrock is symbol of Christianity in Ireland and associated with St Patrick. Our paper plate shamrock sun catcher is a simple craft activity for children. I traced a shamrock onto a paper plate and cut it out. My 4 year old cut a sheet of green cellophane into small pieces. I…

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

    March 2, 2014 - By 

    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…

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    Leprechaun gold (salt dough coins)

    February 10, 2014 - By 

    St Patrick’s Day is a while away but that didn’t stop us from making some salt dough Leprechaun gold coins. I’ve wanted to try making our own salt dough for ages and I found a great recipe for it over on RainyDayMum which I have adapted slightly. How to make salt dough coins: 100g salt 200g plain flour 100ml water Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix together to form a dough. I turned it out on to a lightly floured board and let my son roll it out and cut out about 20 coins using a cookie…

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    St Patrick’s Day biscuits

    March 8, 2012 - By 

    To celebrate St Patrick’s Day we made some four-leafed clover biscuits and decorated them with a simple line of green icing. I always know we’ve made something that looks interesting when I see my son’s arm reaching up to grab a biscuit from the plate when he thinks I’m not looking. St Patricks Day biscuits We tried a new gingerbread dough for these biscuits – Gingerbread cookie dough from Cake & Biscuits. This was really cheap and it showed, difficult to roll without crumbling, it cut badly, tearing every time I tried to lift the shapes from the floured board…

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    Printing shamrocks

    March 2, 2012 - By 

    I know how much my son loves getting messy so thought we would break out the paints for St Patrick (in honour of our Irish heritage). We cut an ordinary green pepper in half and dipped it in some green paint. Sounds simple but somehow we ended up breaking the plate – oops! Then the toddler was let loose, creating pretty shamrocks over sheet of paper. Four-leafed clover anyone? Our version of the shamrock, symbol of Ireland and associated with St Patrick.  

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    Following a rainbow

    February 25, 2012 - By 

    With our beautiful Irish surname we just had to start thinking about some St Patrick’s Day crafts! First up was some baking and what could be nicer than some rainbow cookies to remind us about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Rainbow sweets, otherwise known as m&ms, were bashed over the head with a rolling pin and added to a basic cookie mixture. Already looking pretty – rainbow cookie mixture. Makes pretty cookie dough too! Not bad looking cookies either. Big Brother tried to sneak one off the wire rack whilst they were cooling so they…