Saint Patrick's Day Craft - Shamrock Party Hat

Here is a fun way to make Saint Patrick's Day party hats for your kids. They can wear their hats just for fun or make a bunch, invite the neighborhood kids for cookies and milk (make green milk by adding a few drops of green food coloring in the milk, the kids will love it!) and have a Saint Patrick's Day party! You can even make this Saint Patrick's Day hat a craft project that the kids make while at the party. They can each make their own hat!

For this Saint Patrick's Day project, you will need green construction paper, green pipe cleaners (two per hat), and normal craft supply stuff like scissors, tape, glue, crayons, markers, and decorative items like stickers, glitter, pom poms, buttons, or whatever decorative items you have on hand. If you want to make your own paste, please see my paste recipe article [3 Paste Recipes: Thin Paste, Paper Paste, Classroom Paste].

Start by cutting a long strip of construction paper about three or four inches wide. You will need to glue or tape strips of construction paper together to make the strip long enough. Make the strip just long enough so that when you put the ends together, the band will just fit on your child's head. Then secure the band by taping or gluing the ends together.

After your band is made, take two pipe cleaners and twist them around a pencil so they are curly. Stretch them out a bit and glue or tape them on each side of the band so they are sticking up. Then cut out two shamrocks (you can find a shamrock template on this page) and glue or tape the shamrocks to the ends of the pipe cleaners (see a photo of the finished hat by clicking on Project 4 on this page).

Now your Saint Patrick's Day party hat is done and all you have left to do is decorate it! You can color it, add stickers or glitter to it, glue other items on like buttons or bead or even macaroni! No matter how you decorate it, you will have the best Saint Patrick's Day hat ever!

If you want to make some other Saint Patrick's Day crafts, please see my other articles! Here is a fun lacing project to teach kids about sewing [St. Patrick's Day Craft - Simple Lacing Projects]. This is an easy craft to make a 3D shamrock [Saint Patrick's Day Craft - 3D Shamrock]. And this is a nice project for very little kids [St. Patrick's Day Craft - Confetti Shamrock (for Little Kids)].