35 St Patrick Day Crafts For Kids

Last Updated on February 6, 2025 by Masha Eretnova

Let’s make some Leprechauns, shamrock, pots with gold, and rainbow DIY art projects for the upcoming St Patrick’s Day this March.

There are activities for preschoolers and toddlers that use glue, paper plates, toilet paper rolls, paint, Q tips, and other basic supplies you will be able to find at home or buy for really cheap.

These simple tutorials can be used at home or preschool, and many come with a free printable template to make your (parent or teacher) life easier!

And you don’t have to be Irish to celebrate this holiday with your children!

More St Patrick’s Themed Crafts

• 12 Colorful Rainbow Crafts For Kids (more ideas than in this collection)
• 16 Leprechaun Crafts For Kids (more ideas than in this collection)
• 16 Shamrock Crafts For Kids (more ideas than in this collection)

St Patrick’s DIY Slime

So many kids are obsessed with slimes so if yours is too, there is nothing better (and healthier) to try and make a DIY slime at home. And a pot overflowing with gold (our slime) sounds like a perfect excuse to do this craft project that only requires 4 ingredients.

Tutorial: St Patrick’s Slime

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

More St Patrick’s Crafts: Rainbow Crafts For Kids

Easy St. Patrick’s Day STEM Challenge for Kids

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Math activities that can help children develop problem-solving skills, curiosity, creative thinking, and teamwork.

This art project will be great for the classroom of a big family, the goal is to build a St Patrick’s Day-inspired catapult with popsicles and other materials to help leprechauns.

Tutorial: St Patricks STEM challenge

Lucky Leprechaun Craft for Kids

Lucky charms are a part of St Patrick but it doesn’t always have to be a four-leaf clover. To make this lucky leprechaun you will need a free template (comes with the tutorial), cardstock, glue, googly eyes, pom pom, and a marker.

Tutorial: Lucky Leprechaun Craft

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

Leprechaun Gnome Paper Bag Craft

Your kids can make little cute gnomes we know as leprechauns with paper bags and some colored craft paper.

This quick and easy tutorial comes with a free printable template for you to use!

Tutorial: Leprechaun Gnome Paper Bag Craft

DIY Shamrock Necklaces

Super cute and simple shamrock necklaces to make with daughters with salt dough! It is a fun experiment, you need to make the salt dough first, and then shape and color it.

Tutorial: DIY Shamrock Necklaces

St Patrick’s Day Pot of Gold paper plate lacing craft

This Pot of Gold Paper Plate Lacing Craft is a fun St. Patrick’s activity for kids, using a paper plate, yarn, and colorful paper to create a pot filled with gold.

Perfect for working on fine motor skills, this craft is great for preschoolers and young kids aged 3-6 years old.

Tutorial: St Patrick’s Day Pot of Gold paper plate lacing craft

St. Patrick’s Hat Pencil Holder

This Simple St. Patrick’s Hat Pencil Holder is an easy craft that turns a toilet paper roll, green paper, and glue into a festive desk accessory.

Perfect for kids aged 5-8 years old, it’s a hands-on way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day while upcycling materials at home or classroom.

Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Hat Pencil Holder

St Patrick’s Day Cootie Catcher Printables

This St. Patrick’s Day Cootie Catcher is a DIY paper craft that lets kids fold and play while solving a fun holiday-themed Quiz.

Ideal for children aged 5-10 years old, this activity uses just paper and scissors, making it a low-entry affordable way to celebrate the holiday in class.

The tutorial comes with different quizes and templates for teachers.

Tutorial: St Patrick’s Day Cootie Catcher Printables

3D coloring St Patrick’s Day Cards

This set of St Paddy 3D coloring pages contains 8 pages in total, including instructions and various card designs. This activity works for children aged 5-10 years and requires paper, coloring tools, scissors, and glue.

Tutorial: 3D coloring St Patrick’s Day cards for kids

ShamROCKS and Gold Nuggets St Patrick’s Day Crafts

The Shamrock and Gold Nugget Painted Rocks craft involves painting rocks to create cute St. Patrick’s Day decorations, perfect for little hands. This easy project can start with a walk to find perfect rocks for apintin and is ideal for kids aged 4-8.

Tutorial: ShamROCKS and Gold Nuggets St Patrick’s Day Crafts

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St. Patrick’s Day Perler Beads

The St. Patrick’s Day Perler Beads craft collection features over 50 patterns to create simple designs like rainbows, leprechauns, shamrocks, and pots of gold. Perfect for kids aged 6 and up.

And with so many patterns – the activity will last way beyond St Patrick’s!

Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Perler beads

St. Patrick’s Day Play Dough

This St. Patrick’s Day Playdough activity combines sensory play with holiday fun, using homemade green and yellow playdough for kids to play with.

Ideal for toddlers and preschoolers, it is largely improving fine motor skills and feels like a cooking or science experiment (it is fun for adults too!)

Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Play Dough

Toilet Paper Roll Leprechaun

This Handsome little leprechaun is a great way to recycle a toilet paper roll and will be very easy to do with preschoolers. It is a zero mess activity too, as there is no coloring: you simply glue elements cut out from colored paper on the paper roll.

Tutorial: Toilet Paper Roll Leprechaun

More: 16 Leprechaun Crafts For Kids

Leprechaun Trap for St. Patrick’s Day

One of the favorite activities for big families for St. Patrick’s Day decoration is to make this fantastic trap to catch many-many leprechauns. You just need to lure them in with some gold and put up a ladder for those little gnomes to climb and get it…

Tutorial: Leprechaun Trap for St. Patrick’s Day

Torn Paper Shamrock Craft

With torn paper crafts there are no rules: you just tear paper and glue it, and kids will love that! It will be perfect for preschool to make a bunch of four-leaf clovers.

Tutorial: Torn Paper Shamrock Craft

St. Patrick’s Day Sewing Cards

A full set of adorable lacing cards you can print, punch, and sew for a fun DIY St. Patrick’s Day activity! Great for preschoolers ages 3 and up.

Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Sewing Cards

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

Paper Plate Tambourine for St Patrick’s Day

Make a fun Paper Plate Tambourine using paper plates, bells, and markers for a DIY St. Patrick’s Day musical instrument. Perfect for kids aged 3-7, this craft combines music and creativity while making noise with coins!

Tutorial: Paper Plate Tambourine

Yarn Wrapped Shamrock Craft for Preschoolers

Grab some yarn and create a Yarn-Wrapped Shamrock with your little ones for a lucky St. Patrick’s Day craft! It’s perfect for preschoolers (ages 3-6) and super simple—just wrap, stick, and shamrock away.

A perfect way to use any leftover yarn!

Tutorial: Yarn Wrapped Shamrock Craft

St. Patrick’s Day Dot Marker Pages

Grab these simple St Patrick-inspired coloring pages, print them, and let the toddlers and preschoolers can color them using dots only – that helps improve hand and eye coordination.

Tutorial: St Patrick’s Doter Pages

Easy Leprechaun Handprint Craft

The Leprechaun Handprint Craft is a cute and personal way to make a St. Patrick’s Day keepsake using your little one’s handprint.

A fun activity for older toddlers and preschoolers aged 3-6, this leprechaun face requires just paper, paint, and a handprint. Great school project idea too.

Tutorial: Leprechaun Handprint Craft

Kid-Made Shamrock Photo Card

This Kid-Made Shamrock Photo Card is a cute and customizable craft where kids add their own photo inside a shamrock design.

Perfect for preschoolers and elementary school, it’s a fun way to create a personalized St. Patrick’s Day card for family and friends, or class art projects for kids to speak about their siblings.

Tutorial: Shamrock Photo Card

Cabbage Cut and Paste Craft

The Cabbage Cut-and-Paste Craft ties into St. Patrick’s Day by reflecting the tradition of Irish folk tales where cabbage was a common and affordable vegetable.

This craft lets preschoolers cut and paste pieces to create their own cabbage, and practice handwriting, while adding a bit of Irish culture to the mix!

Tutorial: Cabbage Craft

Pot of Gold Papercraft

Create a fun Pot of Gold Papercraft by layering colored paper for a rainbow, cutting out shamrocks, pot, and clouds, and adding golden glitter coins.

You can use it for for kids aged 4-7 for March projects.

Tutorial: Pot Of Gold Papercraft

Leprechaun Hat Headband

The Leprechaun Hat Headband is a fun and wearable craft where kids create their own leprechaun hats and wear them proudly for St. Patrick’s Day.

Suitable for ages 3-6, this simple craft uses a free printable template, so you don’t have to draw the hat.

Tutorial: Leprechaun Hat Headband

Stained Glass Clover Craft for Kids

The Stained Glass Clover Craft uses colored tissue paper to fill in a clover outline, creating a beautiful, light-filtering effect that resembles stained glass. The “stained glass” name comes from the translucent, colorful paper that mimics the look of actual stained glass windows

This craft is perfect for older toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary class students.

Tutorial: Stained Glass Clover Craft

Fingerprint Shamrock Painting

The Fingerprint Shamrock Painting uses kids’ fingerprints to form the leaves of a shamrock, creating a personal and colorful St. Patrick’s Day craft. Great for toddlers and kids who love to be hands-on in an experience.

Make sure to use paint that is safe for kids skin.

Tutorial: Fingerprint Shamrock Painting

Shamrock Wand

The Shamrock Wand craft lets preschoolers make their own magical St. Patrick’s Day wands by decorating a shamrock with glitter and attaching it to a skewer stick. Girls will love this sparkly accessory for the holiday, especially if they are Harry Potter fans.

Tutorial: Shamrock Wand

St. Patrick’s Day Pot of Gold Craft for Kids

Craft this Pot of Gold with a colorful paper rainbow with torn or cut paper, then add a pot of gold and a cloud for a festive touch.

This activity enhances fine motor skills, color recognition in preschoolers.

Tutorial: Pot Of Gold

Fork Painting Leprechaun

Easy fork painting idea for St Patrick Day. To paint this Leprechaun’s hair and beard, toddlers and preschoolers can use a fork dipped in orange paint. The face and hat can be cut out of the colored paper and glued.

Will be a fun activity for class – everyone will have a different painting.

Tutorial: Leprechaun Fork Painting

Articulated Leprechaun Paper Puppet for St Patrick’s Day

For older kids, this craft will be not just fun to make but it can lead to a whole puppet show for St Patrick’s at school! Not to worry, the tutorial comes with a full-color leprechaun printable.

Tutorial: Leprechaun Paper Puppet

St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Wreath

Turn a bunch of cut out paper shamrocks into a festive Shamrock Wreath that makes a perfect St. Patrick’s Day decoration! Ideal for kids aged 4-8, this craft helps little hands practice cutting and gluing while creating something fun to hang up at home or in the classroom.

Tutorial: Shamrock Wreath

Easy DIY Macrame Gnomes

These Macrame Gnomes (aka Leprechauns) bring a charming handmade touch to St. Patrick’s Day with their fluffy orange beards and cozy green hats. Best for older kids or adults, this craft involves simple macrame knots (and some patience), making it a fun way to explore fiber art.

Tutorial: Macrame Gnomes