St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Kids

It’s just about time to get out all your green (and rainbow colored!) craft supplies and start making St. Patrick’s Day crafts. Here are a few ideas to get you started, whether you’re making with one kid or a classroom.

Make a Celtic knot with pipe cleaners with these instructions from Raise Curious Kids. It would be easy to make a whole garland to decorate the classroom if the kids get into it. They could be green, green and orange like shown here for the Irish flag, or in rainbow colors.

Speaking of garlands, you can make strips of paper into a chain of shamrocks with this tutorial from Blissful Domestication. This shows using a stapler, but if you’re making it with little kids you can use glue (stick or dots would probably be easiest) instead.

Or all the kids can make chains in rainbow colors to make this pot of gold craft from Crafty Morning. Leave it short like the one shown or make a bunch of chains to turn it into a door or wall decoration.

I love a good “stained glass” project made with tissue paper and clear, sticky paper, so why not make some shamrock suncatchers like these from Kids Activity Zone? Or use chalk pastels and dark paper to make these cool shamrocks from Projects with Kids. They’re so pretty!

One cool thing about shamrocks is that the leaves look like hearts, so if you can make a heart shape you can make a shamrock. These paper shamrocks from DIY Inspired use a heart-shaped paper punch, which makes it fast, but you could also use a cookie cutter or paper template to trace the heart shapes and cut them out by hand. Always looking for ways to build those fine motor skills! Also you could use a pipe cleaner for the stem instead of floral wire, or just glue the hearts to a piece of paper to make shamrocks or clover.

If you have kids with sewing skills, they can use felt cut into not-quite heart shapes to make a sweet little felt four leaf clover form Molly and Mama. Use them to decorate hair clips, make decorations and more.

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I used to always teach people how to knit by giving them bulky yarn, teach the knit cast on and have them knit a scarf (like this garter stitch scarf). That’s still a great first project, but I acknowledge people might get bored knitting all that garter stitch before they can say they’ve finished their first knitting project. Plus they might not want to wear something that comes out a little wonky, as first knitting projects often do.

These days I’m more likely to recommend a garter stitch washcloth to a new knitter.

Washcloths are usually made with medium weight cotton yarn, which is one of the easiest yarns to find at big box stores and craft stores, and it’s usually inexpensive and comes in lots of fun colors. You only need one ball of yarn and one pair of needles to make one, so there’s not a lot of outlay in terms of supplies.

Everyone can use washcloths, and even if you drop stitches, add stitches, have weird tension issues or all of the above, it will still work as a washcloth. And you can keep that first thing you made to see how much progress you make in just a couple of projects.

And if you still want more garter stitch when it’s done, you can move on to a scarf (or even a sampler scarf if you want to try some new stitches).

That post linked above is a great one for a brand new knitter or someone who just needs a refresher, because it walks you through everything you need to know how to do to make it. There’s also a full video tutorial for people who would rather see moving images rather than still pictures.

What was the first thing you made when you learned to knit? Or if you’ve taught someone to knit, what first project did you give them? I’d love to hear about it!

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