Last Updated on February 6, 2025 by Masha Eretnova
Looking for crafts featuring all of the rainbow colors that will work for kids from toddlers to preschoolers and even older?
These easy ideas will be great year-round, but especially for St Patrick’s Day, and for spring and summer activities.
Framed St Patrick’s Day Craft
This framed St Patrick’s art is perfect for little artists. They can create the painting and also paint the frame. With older kids, you can even make the frame from scratch learning about basic woodworking skills.
Tutorial: Framed St Patrick’s Day Craft
3D Rainbow Craft For St. Patrick’s Day
Learning colors while having fun is made easier with this rainbow activity. It can work for St Patrick Day art project as you can add a little pot with gold under the rainbow. You need lots of colored paper and cotton balls.
Tutorial: 3D Rainbow Craft For St. Patrick’s Day
Painting Rainbows With Q-tips
Colorful rainbows with glitter will be an easy painting for kids and toddlers for St Paddy’s. Kids will love using cotton swabs to dab bright colors, and you can use this moment to learn colors or color matching.
Tutorial: Painting Rainbows With Q-tips
St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow With Coins
For kids and toddlers who love coloring and parents who love easy crafts, print out this template and grab your markers or colored pencils. Go one step further and attach gold coins with shamrock to the rainbow.
Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow
St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Paper Shamrocks
Create a colorful Rainbow Shamrock using paper, glue, and scissors. Perfect for kids 4-8 yo, this simple craft adds a touch of luck to any classroom or home activity, plus, can help you work on motor skills.
Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Paper Shamrocks
Mason Jar Rainbow Salt Craft
Practice motor skills with your children by trying to layer colored salt following the rainbow order in a mason jar. Plus, it keeps the colorful chaos to just one jar…hopefully!
Tutorial: Mason Jar Rainbow Salt Craft
Pot Of Gold & Rainbow Craft For Kids
The most iconic craft for kids for St Patrick, after all the leprechauns and shamrocks, is no doubt – rainbow. Play with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple pipe cleaners, and make a rainbow coming from a pot with gold coins.
Tutorial: Pot Of Gold & Rainbow Craft For Kids
Torn Paper Rainbow Craft
Let the kids go wild tearing up colored paper and gluing it together to assemble a colorful rainbow. Grab the free printable with the tutorial.
Tutorial: Torn Paper Rainbow Craft
Skittles Decorations
I think TV advertisements made a clear association in our heads: skittle = rainbow. So we can use a few packages to make this decor. You can make it in horizontal, vertical, diagonal lines, and whatever shapes you want!
Brilliant for working on fine motor skills too.
Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Skittles Decorations
Paper Strip Rainbow Craft
A very easy three-dimensional rainbow that you can make with colorful paper strips. You don’t even need glue!
Tutorial: Paper Strip Rainbow Craft
St Patrick’s Rainbow
Get ready for St Patrick’s Day with this easy paper craft made with tissue paper, some gold coins, a pot, and cotton balls. Super colorful rainbow with a cute cloud and a pot full of gold made of chocolate (now your kids will be onboard with it immediately!).
Tutorial: St Patrick Rainbow Craft
Rainbow Paper Craft for Kids
This Rainbow Paper Craft is a colorful and hands-on activity that helps little ones practice fine motor skills and color sorting while making a bright rainbow with paper scraps and cotton ball clouds. Works for toddlers to early elementary kids, it’s simple and very engaging.
You can surely adjust it for younger kids and use torn paper instead.
Tutorial: Rainbow Craft
Masha Eretnova, born in 1991, is a Buenos Aires-based certified teacher, artist, and member of the Professional Artist Association with 20+ years of personal painting journey.
She started painting and drawing very early and is now an international abstract artist and educator passionate about acrylic painting, gouache, and crafts.
Her works are part of international exhibitions and contests, including ArtlyMix (Brazil), Al-Tiba 9 (Spain), Exhibizone (Canada), Italy, and many more.
Besides her artistic pursuits, Masha holds a post-grad diploma in Teaching Film Photography and 2 music school diplomas: piano and opera singing.