St Patricks Day Crafts
Begin the celebrations with these St Patricks Day crafts
Join me in preparing some St Patricks Day crafts. We will begin with creating a shamrock on a stick, a beautiful work of art that is easy to make. We will end with creating a magical screen that will transport us from the black and white screen era, right up the color screen era.
Are you ready? Come on, let's get to work...
A Shamrock on a Stick
Materials:
- A shamrock template
- A transparent slide
- Permanent markers
- Wooden skewers
- Aluminum foil
- Transparent adhesive tape
- Scissors
- A stapler
- A Stanley knife
Instructions:
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Print out the template on to paper.
Copy on to the transparent slide
and cut out around the outline.
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Color the shamrock.
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With the help of the Stanley knife
create two holes: one between the
eyes, and the other above the mouth.
Thread the skewer through the back of
the shamrock to the hole that is above
the mouth and through to the back via
the hole that is between the eyes.
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Cut out a piece of aluminum foil
slightly bigger than the shamrock.
Crumple the foil slightly and then
straighten it out carefully, so that
the foil does not tear. The crumpling
gives the art work a sparkling
effect and it looks beautiful.
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Place the shamrock on the aluminum
foil and staple around the edges.
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Cut off the excess aluminum foil.
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Wrap the remaining aluminum foil
around the wooden skewer. Then
wind the transparent adhesive tape
around it to ensure that the aluminum
foil does not fall apart.
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And here you have a beautiful
shamrock on a stick
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Pot of Gold - Magical Screen
Materials:
Instructions:
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Print out the template on to the
construction paper and cut out
around the outline.
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Trace the picture on to the transparent
slide using a black permanent marker.
Then color the picture that was printed
on to the construction paper.
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Place the transparent slide on top of
the construction paper so that the
pictures are lined up exactly one on
top of the other, and stick them
together with masking tape.
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Fold the TV template, and slide the
picture into the fold that has been
formed. Make sure that the transparent
slide is on top and the colored
construction paper is on the bottom.
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Close the T.V. screen on top of the
transparent slide and stick on the back.
Now you can see the magic!
Through the screen you are able to
see the picture in black and white,
but when you pull the picture upwards,
the color picture is revealed.
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Do you have ideas of your own for St Patricks Day crafts? Send them to me! I'll be happy to add them to the growing collections of kid activities listed here on this site!
