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St. Patrick's Day Art
Contact_FullName: Stacey Contact_Email: stacey_g_7@yahoo.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Idea: I draw or photocopy many shamrocks on a piece of white paper and let the children finger-paint on it with the new green ketchup. ontact_FullName: Kathy Contact_Email: Area: St. Patrick's Day Idea: Dye rice green and let the children glue the green rice onto a pre-cut shamrock. Contact_FullName: Angela Contact_Email: ladymcgrady18@yahoo.com Area: st. Patrick's day art Idea: Cut a paper plate in half. have the children glue cotton balls all over it for the cloud. Attach strips or crepe paper streamers in any length you wish in the rainbow colors...red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. I hang them from the ceiling in the classroom for decoration for our party. Contact_FullName: Karla Contact_Email: karla_bug77@yahoo.com Area: art Idea: Contact paper collage shamrocks. Cut 2 shamrock shapes out of clear contact paper for each child. Provide an assortment of green collage items: feathers, paper and fabric scraps, Easter grass, etc. The children stick items onto the contact paper and teacher puts 2nd shamrock on top of finished collage. Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net Area: St Patrick's day-art Idea: Let the kids take shamrock confetti and gold sequence (this is suppose to be the gold coins) and put them in baby food jars, fill with water and sprinkle with green or gold or glitter (or both) I then hot glue the lids on and they have a St Patrick's day water-ball! Contact_FullName: Linda Contact_Email: ab8388 Area: ST Patrick's day -Art Idea: Cut out a shamrock shape out of white construction paper. Put green paint in the middle of shamrock had a Q,tip to child then have them paint away so much fun they look so cute after there done. Contact_FullName: elizabeth Contact_Email: elizabethpasternak@hotmail.com Area: St. Patrick's day art Idea: Have the children put an assortment of small shamrocks and large shamrocks on the sticky part of contact paper then add gold and green glitter to the mixture, you may also use green puff balls or tissue paper. Kids love to do this! Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jlthomp@thegateway.net Area: St Patrick's day Idea: I cut out large shamrock shapes on green poster board and let the kiddos glue the dry peas that you buy in a gag in the grocery store in the bean section.. Looks really neat and the kiddos love the texture, plus it is a bit different from the same old bean art! Contact_FullName: Sherry Contact_Email: Sklemmt@bsd.blaine.wednet.edu Area: St. Patrick's Day - craft Idea: For St. Patrick's Day we make lacing clovers. Using a large shamrock tracer trace one one on green construction paper and another on clear plastic vinyl. Cut out, then hole punch around the edges. Students use yarn to lace the edges together. Stuff with a few gold coins or clover confetti before finishing with a bow. We have also made these for Valentine's Day filled with candy hearts. Contact_FullName: christine Contact_Email: cmdjava@aol.com Area: art; st patrick's day Idea: emerald isle art After discussing the lavish greens of Ireland and it's rainy weather, use markers on paper or coffee filters to create rainbows, plants etc. then use a water mister as "rain" and watch the colors spread, overlap, and mix!A great chance for scientific observations. Contact_FullName: Charity Contact_Email: cldybg11@aol.com Area: St. Patrick's day art Idea: *sensory table shaving cream with green food coloring **give children blue and yellow paint. Have them mix the colors together and paint a pretty picture with different shades of green. Add more yellow or more blue to have different variation. ** rainbow of hands. Put paint on the palms of the children. Have a red group, orange group, yellow group, etc. have the red children do the red row of the rain bow, the orange next and so on. In the end you will have a big rainbow made out of colorful handprints. **Pots of gold for children Buy disposable bowls (paper or Styrofoam) have the children paint then and decorate them with glitter. Make gold pieces out of paper, gold spray painted rocks, card board, chocolate coins. Contact_FullName: Contact_Email: date:: Area: St. Patrick's Day-Art Idea: Paint a small terra cotta pot green or gold. Glue on a pipe cleaner handle. Decorate the pot with shamrock stickers. Put some green paper grass in the pot and add a couple of gold coins. Contact_FullName: Meagan Contact_Email: mz_alleyezonme@yahoo.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Art Idea: If you purchase a green pepper and cut it in half right down the middle it makes a shamrock shape. Let the children have only one half of the green pepper and dip it in green paint and make their very own shamrock Contact_FullName: Marsha Contact_Email: soupy39@suscom.net Area: holiday - St.. Patrick's Day -- art Idea: Before class cut a medium sized potato in half and carve out a simple shamrock shape with a paring knife on each half. The children will use this to stamp out potato prints with green paint. To make a handle for the children to hold on to, take a chunk of potato from the top on the right and left side. What is left in the center serves as a handle and works quite well. I briefly tell them that Ireland is known for growing potatoes and we are using them to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Contact_FullName: Tessa Contact_Email: tessjoann@hotmail.com Area: St. Patrick's Day-Art Idea: Green Haired Leprechauns Materials Needed: Cups (plastic or styrofoam) Grass Seed Soil Leprechaun clip art Directions: Give each child a cup and involve them in filling the cup half way with soil. Give each child some grass seed to sprinkle into the cup. Instruct each child to cover the seed with additional soil and water. Give each child a leprechaun face to color. Instruct each child to cut out the leprechaun face and glue it on the front of their cup. Watch the leprechauns hair grow!! This is sort of like a chia pet. Contact_FullName: Kelly Contact_Email: KellyGirl898@aol.com Area: St. Patrick's Day - Art Idea: Paper Party Hat: Take a White piece of paper (Construction or Painting Paper work good) fold it into a cone shape and either tape, staple or glue it. then using a hole puncher make 2 holes at the bottom of the hat (one on left side, and one on right side) stick reinforcements over the holes on the inside then tie a piece of yarn to each hole (this will be used to tie the hat onto the childs head). then write HAPPY BIRTHDAY and childs name on the hat then let the child decorate the hat with Birthday stickers, confetti, glitter, stampers etc... let dry and they can wear the hat for a special Birthday Party at the end of Birthday Theme week. you may also use this idea for New Years, St. Patrick's Day etc... Contact_FullName: Debi Contact_Email: bbrotherton@earthlink.net Area: St. Patrick's Day Hats--Craft Idea: Actually, I didn't think this up myself--I saw it done at my child's Pre-K. You take green formed plant paper (the kind of thick shiny paper that is usually used to decorate the outside of a flower pot--it's pressed or shaped in a flower pot shape--hard to describe--I got some at Michael's for .99 cents each) and you turn it upside down. You can then use ribbon or construction paper to put a hat band around the hat. You can cut a square out of construction paper or any kind of paper or craft foam sheets to make a buckle--you could even glue glitter on the buckle. For a cute touch, you can even take a pipe cleaner and glue it in the hat band and then glue a shamrock to the top of the pipe cleaner so that it moves and sways when the person wears the hat. You would have to trim the "brim" to make it round/circular instead of pointed. They make really cute St. Patrick Day Hats. If you use black flower pot paper, you can make pilgrim's hats. Contact_FullName: Lisa Contact_Email: jimmynlisa@thegateway.net Area: Art-St. Patrick's Day Idea: Shamrock wands: I gave the kids a cutout of a shamrock and they put glitter on it, added green streamers to the end. Once it was dry I stamped to a straw or you could stapled it to a paper towel roll they have painted green or decorated or St. Patty's day. The kids loved it Shamrock glasses: I made the kids glasses buy using a pair of 3-d glasses for a pattern. I traced onto green poster board and then in the holes where you look out I put green saran wrap. The kids loved them! They wore these along with the hat idea below and used their wands for a St. Patrick's Day "parade" on the playground. Leprechaun hat: I cut the center out of a paper plate and hot glued a paper bowl around center edge. The kids painted them green and then added a black strip of construction paper and a yellow construction paper buckle, soooooo cute! I used yarn to secure around neck like a b-day hat is done. I used toilet paper rolls and filled them with candy and party favors. used green tissue paper and wrapped around, twisted the ends and tied with green ribbon. Added St. Patrick's day stickers for decoration and that was a cute party surprise for the kids. Contact_FullName: Tiffany Contact_Email: tskala21@yahoo.com Area: St. Patrick's Day: Art Idea: Gold Coin Necklace: Materials needed: gold/green ribbon, white construction paper, gold/yellow paint, gold glitter, paintbrushes, individual pictures of children Procedure: The teacher cuts the construction paper into large circles. The children paint the circles with the paint and sprinkle with glitter. After they dry, the teacher punches a hole at the top for the ribbon to go through. Then, the teacher cuts the picture of the child to fit the gold circle and glues it on. The teacher can write on the back: "I'm more precious than gold!" and the child's name and date. Another option is to turn this necklace into a magnetic by just purchasing the magnetic strips and gluing them on the back of the gold coins. Contact_FullName: Tiffany Contact_Email: tskala21@yahoo.com Area: St. Patrick's Day: Art Idea: Glittering Gold: Materials needed: rocks, gold paint, gold glitter, paintbrushes, trays Procedure: Each child will be given two or three rocks to paint gold. While still wet, the child sprinkles the gold glitter on the rocks. When they dry, the children have their very own gold! Contact_FullName: Tina Contact_Email: tinajohn5@direcway.com Area: St Patrick's Day - Art Idea: Using old magazines, calendars', etc., have the children find pictures of GREEN things and cut them out. Have them glue their green items onto a large shamrock shape. Contact_FullName: Lucy Contact_Email: Lucy_lu813@yahoo.com Area: St. Patrick's day art Idea: St. Patrick's Day mobile-- have your kids cut out and color a large rainbow- then have them cut out some clovers and pots of gold let them sprinkle glitter on them (if they want) then have them tie there pots of gold and clovers to their rainbow Contact_FullName: batch Contact_Email: batchsdb2000@yahoo.com Area: art St. Patrick' s Day Idea: You will need a large (industrial) size coffee filter, food coloring, and shamrock pattern. You will either put the filter in green water of several shades or use a dropper for a tie died effect. You will then let the filter dry and cut out the pattern. You can either leave plan or protect it. After you have done all of this, write the child's name and use a place mat for a party or any occasion. Contact_FullName: Melanie Contact_Email: u_m1duarte@umassd.edu Area: St. Patrick's Day- Art Idea: Green Spray Bottle Art Take a clean spray bottle. Mix water with green tempera paint. Cut out large shamrock shape. Attach shamrock shape to easel. Have children spray paint shamrock. Once dry, child can glue on leprechaun cutout if he/she wants. My four-year-olds love this project!!! Contact_FullName: Beth Contact_Email: DakiniRawk@aol.com Area: St. Patrick's Day Art Idea: BEARDED LEPRECHAUN: I got this idea from a Kindergarten teacher at my school. I did it with my kids in Speech Therapy and they LOVED it. Cut a face out of a manila folder (curved on bottom, flat on top is okay because we will be adding a hat). Cut green leprechaun hats out of green construction paper. add hat to face. Have the children draw a face for the leprechaun. Cut 5 or 6 long strips of orange construction paper. Have the children roll each strip around the pencil to curl it (This is excellent fine motor!). Then glue the end of the curly beard strips to the chin of the leprechaun (curls rolling up toward the face). They are VERY cute!! 3-12-01Candy Box Shamrocks: Save a heart shaped Valentines candy box from Valentines. Pour green paint into a tray. Dip inside part of candy box into paint and stamp in the shape of a shamrock on large paper. Add stem and sprinkle with glitter or salt.
3-12-01Let the children make their own miniature pots of gold. Spread petroleum jelly on the outside of a small bowl. Mix up some plaster of Paris and cut newspaper in to strips. Have children apply this over the outside of the bowl. Let this dry for 3 Days. The children can paint and add gold foil covered candy.
3-12-01Marble painting clover Cut out a clover shape on white construction paper. Place it in an aluminum pan or copy paper box lid. Put several small spots of paint in each corner about the size of a half dollar. You can use light green, dark green, gold and yellow individually or combined. Place the marble in the center of the clover and allow the child to tilt the pan so the marble goes through the paint spots across the paper. If the children are under 4 you may need to hold one side of the pan while the child holds the other or the marble may end up against the wall. You can also sprinkle with gold powder when done. A golf ball instead of a marble works well too.
3-12-01Cut strips of construction paper to make a band to fit around child's head. Lay flat on table. Dip cookie cutter shapes of shamrocks, leprechauns, gold pot, and rainbows in paint and stamp onto band of hat. When dry, tape ends to form hat band. These "stamps" can also be used on paper folded to make greeting cards.
1-13-01Take shamrock patterns (Xeroxed on green construction paper) and have children spread a thin layer of glue on one side. Next, have them sprinkle green glitter over the glue. Let dry. Glue shamrocks to Popsicle/craft sticks. Let dry. Take small amounts of play dough (green) and place in the bottom of a child's size drinking cups. Have children place the Popsicle sticks firmly in the play dough so that the shamrock is "planted" in the cup. Voila!! Your class has "Glittering, Growing Shamrocks!" You may also have them color smaller shamrock patterns to glue on to their cups.
11-5-00Cut a green pepper in half (through the middle w/the stem on top). Make shamrocks. Use the two halves to dip in green paint to create four clovers and add a stem! I did it last year for St. Patrick's Day and they turned out so-o-o-o cute!
Date: 3-13-00Let children use various colors of green crayons with the paper taken off to color a shamrock shape on a hot plate. the crayon melts as they draw. when the entire shamrock is covered I let them sprinkle gold dust on it. (gold glitter) I display these in the window.
Date: 3-13-00Mix green food coloring with a tub of whipped cream. When you open it, asked surprised that it is green. Tell the class that the leprechaun must have made it green. Give each child a spoonful and let him/her finger-paint with it. Clean up is easy, just lick!
Date: 3-13-00Cut a shamrock out of green construction paper. Have the children glue different things that are green on the shamrock (pasta, tissue paper, confetti etc..). When the children are finished sprinkle green glitter on the extra glue.
Date: 3-8-00For St Patrick's Day: have about 4 shamrocks shapes cut out of different types of fabric..bummpy, smooth. Put puffy paint on one..etc.. Then have the children put a piece of paper over the shapes and using a crayon have them rub until the shamrock shapes show through..
Date: 3-8-00Cut out large shamrock shapes from green paper. Have the children glue this shape to another piece of paper and then have them collage onto the shamrock shape.
Date: 3-7-00Pepper Shamrocks You will need two or three green peppers, select the largest ones you can find. Cut the peppers in half and clean out the insides. Use white construction paper and let the children dip the pepper halves into tempra paint and stamp three connecting pepper shapes to form a shamrock. Have children paint a stem with a small (or large) brush. You have a shamrock! You could spread glue inside each opening , after the paint is dry, and sprinkle with green glitter to make the shamrock more outstanding!
Date: 3-5-00March Windsock: Using a large piece of white construction paper, have the child add cookie cutter prints of shamrocks. (Mix the greens for color variation.) Print one side of the paper, let dry. Fold the paper into "tube" shape, with the prints on the outside. Let the child staple ends, tape middle. Staple three strands of green crepe paper at the bottom Put two hole punches at the top and have the child string through. Beautiful March Windsocks!!!
Date: 3-1-00Can stamping Take three soup cans and duct tape them together in a cluster. Then you use it as a stamp in green paint and it will come out as a shamrock. Note: if you put damp paper towel down on the paint tray first it helps absorb some of the paint and it works like a stamp pad then.
10-17-00St. Patrick's Day Hat Purchase on Chinet paper bowl for each child. Let children paint bowls green. Let dry and then hole-punch two holes and loop with sewing elastic to keep on their heads. Let children glue on green items, such as: feathers, buttons, ribbon, beads, etc. (a piece of orange felt or ribbon can be added for the buckle). Now the children have a leprechaun hat for St. Paddy's Day party or just to wear for the day! 10-17-00Paint at the easel using various shades of green paint! Also, add green food coloring to shaving cream and have fun! Date: 1-13-00"Shamrock Caterpillar" Cut out 5 4inch shamrocks draw a face on one then glue them together add antennas the steam of the shamrocks will be the caterpillars legs. Date: 1-13-00Shimmering Shamrock. Cut a shamrock shape out of white finger-paint paper. put a dab of yellow and blue paint on the paper let children finger-paint when done sprinkle on some green glitter they turn out very pretty. Date: 4-18-99Just take a green pepper and cut in half crosswise. Dip the cut side into paint and use it as a stamp on paper. There is your shamrock! Name: Date: 4-18-99On tag board draw the shape of a shamrock. Next take light karo syrup and pour a small amount in the center of the shamrock, next add a few drops of green food coloring. Let the children smear the syrup around until the two have blended. let dry. When it is dry it's smooth as glass- green glass. This is a good sensory lesson as well. 3-13-98 Name: Pat E-Mail: pattypre@aol.com Dropping blue and yellow drops of water onto one of those soap holders with the tiny suction cups on either side - one drop per suction cup. If the yellow and blue are alternated or intermixed, the child can then take a paper towel cut into a shamrock and lay on top of the soap holder. The colors mix to make a green shamrock. 3-9-98 Name: Gina... E-Mail: burkhard@ecsu.campus.mci.net We have been doing a couple weeks of "senses" being our topic and one of our art activities is to foot-paint. Since it is so close to St. Patrick's Day, I cut the footpainted paper into a shamrock shape after they have dried. 3-6-98 Name: Shirleen E-Mail: lovecyrus@aol.com Make a shamrock stained glass window hanging. Cut shamrock out of two pieces of construction paper. Glue white tissue paper on each opening of the shamrock. Have children use watered down glue to paint different colored tissue paper scraps on the tissue paper. Staple both sides together and hang on a window. 3-4-98 Name: Linda S. E-Mail: LLJRSKI@aol.com We made a huge handprint rainbow using different colored fingerpaint and white butcher paper as the background. We had the kids dip their hands in one color and print a few handprints along one row. Then other children did another row, until we made a huge rainbow. You can always add a pot of gold at then end after. 3-4-98 Name: Debbie E-Mail: sewfun@sprynet.com For St. Patrick's Day we made a scrap book page. Using white paper I drew "S" lines all over the paper. So we talked about the letter "S". Then in green paint using the preschoolers thumb we made shamrocks. This page then became a back ground page for other art work. 3-4-98 Name: Myra E-Mail: pwcox@ibm.net Take a broken cassette tape holder (the side the tape goes in) and cover with double-sided adhesive tape and then with yarn form a shamrock. You have an easy to handle stamp for kids - let them dip in a small amount of paint and then stamp onto paper. (You can do this with other shapes, hearts, balloons, or whatever, or you can even stick flat objects like keys on this.) 3-3-98 Name: June E-Mail: JuneG7 @aol.com Handprint Shamrocks Paint inside of palm and fingers omitting thumb, with green paint. center the first print on the upper half of the paper with fingers pointing down. Make two addtional hand prints, each at a fright angle to the first, with palms pointing out and fingers overlapping slightly Then use three fingers to paint a stem unter the clover leaves. 2-23-98 Name: donna E-Mail: dsatter@marion2.k12.sc.us Shimmering Shamrocks Cut out shamrock shapes from green paper. Have the children put glue around the edge of the shamrock. Sprinkle salt or sugar on the glue. Or if you can find the green celophane paper in the grocery store cut holes in the shamrock and put celophane behind it. 2-19-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16 Cut out green shamrock shapes. Give children squares of green tissue paper. Have them roll the tissue squares into little balls. Then glue on the shamrock. Litttl ones really enjoy this. Looks pretty on the bulletin board or hanging from the ceiling. 2-19-98 Name: Yvonne E-Mail: yakeyt@mwr.kic.or.jp Over the Rainbow Materials needed, crayons or paint and a large sheet of paper. 1. Draw a huge rainbow for the group to color or paint. 2. Have the children fill in the arches with different colors. 2-17-98 Name: Lin E-Mail: ledavis@summer.com Yummy Shamrocks I use green pistachio instant pudding to fingerprint on a large piece of paper. When it is dry, you can cut it out in the shape of a large shamrock and glue a colored picture of a leprechaun in the middle. The kids really love this and clean up is a breeze - just lick!! 2-17-98 Name: Sally E-Mail: Spinny002@aol.com Discuss Ireland and the importance of the potato. Cut some spuds in half and carve out shamrock, kettle, and coin shapes. Let the children use these "stamps" to make colorful prints. This is a cute way to make bulletin board borders if you have them stamp on adding machine tape. 2-17-98 Name: Sally E-Mail: Spinny002@aol.com Cut large shamrock shapes from fingerpainting paper. Put a blob of yellow and a blob of blue paint on the shamrock. Have the children fingerpaint and soon...GREEN! This is a good sensory way to learn about colors. 2-14-98 Name: Pat E-Mail: Pattypre@aol.com Cut a green pepper in half horizontally. The shape is sort of "shamrocky". Dip in green paint and print. 2-9-98 Name: Kim E-Mail: Kschulth933@aol.com Texture Shamrocks We have our children use green fingerpaint that has been mixed with grits (to give it a texture) to cover a shamrock shape...... The kids love to feel the difference in the paint when the grits are added. |
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