St. Patrick’s Day Craft For Children

Here is 1 fun and easy St. Patrick’s Day craft for children.  Primary students love to do crafts, and they especially love holiday crafts.  With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to share my St. Patrick’s Day 3-leaf clover mouse with you.  This St. Patrick’s Day craft is perfect for primary students, but it can be enjoyed with smaller children as well, with help.  This craft does require some prep-work but not much. 

First, down below you will find the materials needed for one St. Patrick’s Day Craft Mouse or a class set.  Second, I included the directions needed if you were making this craft using construction paper.  Finally, if you’re short on time, I included the directions if you would like to make this craft using the printed template. 

St. Patrick’s Day Craft for Children

Materials:

One St. Patrick’s Day 3-leaf Clover Mouse

1. One piece of green construction paper (12 by 18)
2. One piece of pink or red construction paper
3. One piece of white construction paper
4. One bottle of glue or glue stick
5. One black marker.
6. One pipe cleaner, cut into 2 pieces (any color but I used white)

Class Set

1. One piece of green construction paper per student.
2. Approximately one piece of pink or red construction paper for every two students.  Depending on the construction paper size, you can fit four hearts and four noses or more on one piece of construction paper.  Each St. Patrick’s Day mouse needs two hearts and one nose.
3. One or two pieces of white construction paper.  Depending on the construction paper size, you can fit a class set of eyes on one piece of paper.
4. One bottle of glue or glue stick per student or small group.
5. One black marker per student or small group.
6. One pipe cleaner per student.

St. Patrick’s Day Craft for Children

Directions:

Option One: Construction Paper

1. Print out the St. Patrick’s Day Template.
2. Cut out the St. Patrick’s Day Template.
3. Tape the 3-leaf clover together.
4. Trace the 3-leaf clover, hearts, eyes, and nose on a manilla file folder.  The 3-leaf clover will fit on a file folder.
5. Cut out the template.
6. Trace the 3-leaf clover on green construction paper.
7. Trace two hearts on either pink or red construction paper.
8. Trace the eyes on white construction paper.
9. Trace the nose on either red or pink construction paper.
10. Cut out all the pieces.
11. Glue the two hearts down to make the ears.
12. Glue the two eyes down to make the eyes.
13. Glue the two pieces of pipe cleaner to make whiskers.
14. Glue the nose on top of the pipe cleaners.
15. Once the glue dries, draw on two eyebrows and two black eyes in the middle. 

Option Two: Cardstock Printer Template

1. Print out the 3-leaf clovers on green cardstock paper.
2. Print out the hearts, eyes, and nose on white cardstock paper.
3. Cut out the St. Patrick’s Day Template.
4. Tape the clover together.
5. Color the hearts and nose pink or red.
6. Color one black oval or circle on each of the eyes.
7. Glue the two hearts down to make the ears.
8. Glue the two eyes down to make the eyes.
9. Glue the two pieces of pipe cleaner to make whiskers.
10. Glue the nose on top of the pipe cleaners.

Congrats!  Now your mouse is finished.  I hope you like this St. Patrick’s Day craft and enjoy making this craft with your children or students.  To download the template, please click here.

Also, if you’re looking for some new St. Patrick’s Day Read Aloud titles, please click here to see my St. Patrick’s Day Books for Kids Blog Post.

St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Your Classroom

If your students can’t get enough of the St. Patrick’s Day children’s books, be sure to check out these St. Patrick’s Day Coloring Pages. You’ll find all kinds of options that focus on helping your students learn! There are color-by-numbers, color-by-letters, and even color-by-sight words! These coloring pages are great for keeping your students entertained while helping them learn! These packages contain 28-46 pages, depending on which one you select. But the best part of all? Your students can use what they’ve been learning from the books to help them color these pages!

If you’re looking for a FREE St. Patrick’s Day activity for your students, I created a Color by Code St. Patrick’s Day freebie that you can download here. 

Are you still looking for more ideas? Check out the FREE Reading Graphic Organizer today! This tool can help students identify main idea, story elements, and the beginning, middle, and end of stories. It can be used with any story you want to introduce in your classroom, and best of all, it’s FREE!

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