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Looking for St. Patrick’s Day crafts you can make yourself or with or for your kids? I’ve got some great ideas.
I feel like St. Patrick’s Day sometimes gets overlooked as a crafting holiday; we just wear green or maybe make a leprechaun trap if we have little kids, and that’s about it. But who doesn’t need a little more luck in their lives?
St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Kids
The teen’s teachers made a big deal of St. Patrick’s Day when she was younger, with one year the leprechaun (it was actually the after school staff) wreaking havoc in the classroom that the kids then had to clean up! While that’s a clever way to get the kids to clean the classroom, these St. Patrick’s Day crafts for kids are a little less messy.
I have an older roundup of St. Patrick’s Day crafts and activities for kids if you need more ideas!
This shamrock stained glass project from Kids Activities Zone is a pretty quick and easy project for kids of all ages. You can do all the prep for younger kids and let older kids assemble the whole thing themselves. Great for hanging in the window all March long.
Or do a variation with card stock and glue like this one from Happiness is Homemade. It’s a great way to use up all your green, white and gold scrapbook paper you’ve been holding onto for ages.
If you’ve also got a stash of appropriately colored pompoms, you can use them in a fun shamrock craft, too. Check out the tutorial from Crafting a Fun Life.
The Pinterested Parent has a few cute St. Patrick’s Day crafts for kids all in one post, including making an egg carton shamrock, glitter and glue peels and using a marshmallow to stamp a shamrock shape. Brilliant!
This sweet banner from Adventures of a DIY Mom includes a hand-stitched element that little kids might not be able to do, but they’d have a lot of fun placing the stickers. For little kids you could leave the stitching off, do it for them, or have them draw “stitching” lines with markers.
Get some fine motor skill practice in while you make a St. Patrick’s Day craft with these pipe cleaner and bead shamrocks from One Little Project. Stringing beads is so fun you’ll probably want to get in on the action, too.
This reminds me of my simple lacing and sewing St. Patrick’s Day activity tray.
I also made a cute green sensory box when the girl was younger that was a lot of fun.
Paper Crafts for St. Patrick’s Day
If you have some green paper on hand, this paper shamrock garland is easy to make. I sewed the pieces together using my sewing machine, but you could also glue them to a ribbon if you don’t have a sewing machine handy.
Or you can add your shamrock shapes to paper pennants to make this 3D version from Aubree Originals. She uses a Cricut for hers, which definitely makes it faster, but you can also cut by hand like I did.
And because you can make clover petals with heart shapes, you can also make your shamrocks or four leaf clovers using heart paper punches. Check out this adorable how-to from DIY Inspired.
Make an easy origami shamrock to use on a greeting card, or make a bunch for a banner, with these instructions from Mommy Made That. Try it with lightweight construction paper or even tissue paper if you don’t have origami paper handy.
Make simple paper shamrocks with the heart shape in a different way with this design idea from One Little Project. You can link a bunch together to make a garland or use them as decor as they are.
This one is both a paper craft and a kids craft, because kids can color the shamrocks and help assemble it, or you can do it yourself. This easy paper plate wreath is from The Best Ideas for Kids.
St. Patrick’s Day Fabric Crafts
Learning into the idea that a shamrock is just a few hearts, you can cut them out of felt and make an adorable hair clip. This one includes a cute fabric yoyo, too, but you could also just do it with the shamrock. Get the how to from Molly and Mama.
Or make a whole bunch of felt shamrocks to make a full clover headband/crown, like this one from Crafted in Carhartt.
Grab all your green and white fabric to make an easy St. Patrick’s Day wreath like this one from A Mom’s Impression. The tying gets a little tedious, but this is a great craft to do in front of the TV or while listening to an audiobook.
If you know how to sew (and if not, check out my simple sewing projects to get started!) these little shamrock pouches are the perfect way to spread a little good cheer and good luck. Jamie Costiglio filled hers with green treats, but you could also use them for sewing kids, feminine supplies or whatever else you like.
And this is not a beginner project (though you could make a single shamrock instead of doing a full table runner) but it’s so pretty I had to share it. This table runner is from Joan Ford We All Sew.
Yarn Crafts for St. Patrick’s Day
There are many options if you want to crochet shamrocks. I like these little ones from Midwestern Moms.
For a larger (though you can make them any size depending on the yarn you use, or even embroidery floss) version, try these from Heart Hook Home.
I also can’t resist sharing this four-leaf-clover amigurumi (his name is Seamus) from Spin a Yarn Crochet.
How about the knitters? My green and white mistake rib scarf was originally designed as a St. Patrick’s Day project. I also collected a bunch of St. Patrick’s Day sock patterns over at Craft Gossip that are a lot of fun.
For a knit shamrock that’s similar to the crochet ones, try this one from Studio Knit.
I also like this knit clover (with three or four petal options) from Fitting in Knitting.
Or knit a simple dishcloth with a four-leaf clover with this pattern from Yarnspirations.
More St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Adults
If you’re new to cross stitch you can make my cross stitch clover bookmark pretty quickly.
It’s not really harder, but my four-leaf clover cross stitch pattern is bigger and will take longer than the bookmark but it’s still a lot of fun (shown here in a yarn-wrapped frame, which would be a fun way to display a lot of these projects).
Kids could also help with this St. Patrick’s Day string art from The Kim Six Fix once you hammer in the nails.
This centerpiece from 31 Rosemary Lane is described in the linked post more than being a tutorial, but it’s easy to pull together with a flower pot, craft foam, paint and a small picture frame. So cute!
Make a simple shamrock bow out of burlap ribbon (or anything with wire in the edges) with this design from Dollar Store Crafts. This would be so cute as a pin or make a bunch for a wreath.
