Saint Patrick’s Day is less than two weeks away! Today, I want to share a super cute and easy craft that is perfect for small children. It can be done at home or in a classroom!
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Materials We Used
Green Construction Paper
White Paper
Scissors
A Crayon
Glue
I started by drawing a shamrock, two shoes, and two hands. If you don’t want to freehand this, you can find the shapes to print out and trace them. After that, I helped my daughter cut out each shape.
Next, I gave my preschooler the white paper and told her to rip four strips off of it. After that, I had her fold each strip back and forth. This is great fine motor skill practice!
Once the paper was folded, I helped her glue the “hands” and “shoes” onto the white paper.
While the glue dried, I asked my daughter to draw a face on the shamrock.
To finish, I flipped it over so my little one could glue on the arms and legs.
Book Suggestions
Here are a few books that would go great with this craft!
14 responses to “Paper Shamrock Man”
That’s so cute and easy to follow steps for the kids to do. I love the list of books you got there.
Love this craft and it looks so cute. A nice bonding with the kids for next family session. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Such a cute idea! I love that this will help work develop their fine motor skills too with folding the paper back and forth.
This is adorable! I love the accordion legs. Folding the paper back and forth is such a great skill to practice with young children. I love your St. Patrick’s Day books, too!
It really is a great way to practice fine motor skills!
Great craft for little kids without getting too messy. Can also be a way to teach kids to draw different facial expressions. Will try this out with my two toddlers!
I completely and utterly love this! I am NOT crafty at all. This is perfect craft for kiddos.
Crafts for not crafty people are kind of my thing!
such a fun and easy idea to work for St. Patrick’s Day!! and love the book suggestions too
Love all of these crafts. They’re all so much fun!
These are brilliant art. Kids loves this
It was a big hit with my daughter!
It is nice to have an easy craft like this for St. Patrick’s Day. Cute idea for the kiddos!
It’s so easy!