Crafts: St. Patrick's Day Craft Ideas

There are so many crafts that kids and adults can make on St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's Day 2008 is on a Monday. Beat the boring Monday blues by making some fun crafts with your family and friends and celebrate the festive holiday in a nice and wholesome way.

A great-smelling craft is the Irish Spring Leprechaun. Buy a bar of Irish Spring soap and cut off one end so it is even and can stand on its own. Using green colored sticky back felt, cut out a little vest and shorts shape. Stick onto the soap and press firmly to activate the glue. Cut out little black boot and hat shapes and stick to the bottom and top of the hat. Finish the leprechaun with google eyes, yellow buckles on the boots, and an orange beard. Use the green felt for arms.

"Shammytines" are St. Patrick's Day's version of the valentine. Draw shamrocks with a personal note, color, and cut out to give to someone. Use green construction paper for a simple shamrock or decorate card stock paper with leprechauns and shamrocks for a fancy effect.

A fingerprint shamrock is a fun way to creatively make a shamrock. Dip the index finger in green finger paint and stamp the index finger onto the paper three times. One print should point to the left, the other to the top of the page, and the last one to the right. The bottom of the fingerprints should connect to the each other. Draw a stem pointing down with a green crayon.

Rainbow jell-o is fun and yummy. This is a little time-consuming, but well worth it in the end. You'll need some tall clear containers, whipped topping, and different colors of jell-o: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Make the jell-o according to box directions, and pour a small layer in each container. Chill for 20 minutes then spoon a small layer of whipped topping on top. Repeat for each color. The whipped topping helps the layers from running together.

This St. Patrick's Day, have fun by making crafts and giving them to family members and friends. Everyone loves gifts, especially when you handcraft it. You can also take these crafts to give out to the elderly at a nursing home. They appreciate gifts and display them year round. Younger children will love the rainbow jell-o. You might want to keep some of it for yourself.