Got Rainbows? Try these St Patricks Day crafts

I am a sucker for colour and am always drawn to rainbows...so much in fact a stack my paper in rainbow order and line my glue and glitter in the order of the rainbow too.

St Patrick's is a great time to learn about Rainbows especially as you try to find the leprechauns gold at the end of a real rainbow.

This weeks Got? Series is Got Rainbows? Try these St Patrick's Day crafts and has a variety of St Patrick's Day ideas and lots and lots of lovely rainbow ideas. As always click on the photo to go to the source of the photo and the DIY for each activity. Enjoy!

These rainbow hearts for the window are lovely.

These dancing rainbow ribbons would be wonderful with a variety of musical.

Sweet Leprechaun hats

Try some yummy rainbow bread

Make milk rainbows

Rainbow snack bags

St Patrick's Day crown

Make a rainbow backdrop for a St Patricks (or birthday or any other portrait day).

Make hand print rainbows with pots o'gold.

Make rainbows with office stickers.

Grow crystal shamrocks

Try rainbow pudding pops

Play roll a rainbow game

Paint a water colour rainbow with black glue for the lines.

Leprechaun peg dolls

Rainbow sensory play with dyed noodles

Make a toilet paper roll rainbow craft

Make rainbow pots of gold to go with this cute St Patrick's Day felt board game

St Patricks day sensory bin with green spit peas, peg dolls and more.

Stained glass rainbows

St Patrick's Day window clings

Gelatin orange wedge rainbow snack

How about some rainbow waffles

Sprout a Shamrock

Rainbow cupcakes

DIY clover necklaces

Prepare to plant a rainbow garden

I have to remember to try these  Easter eggs.

Make a Leprechaun trap

DIY felted rainbow rocks

Capture a Leprechaun

Make a rainbow necklace

Try making a wet felted rainbow

Cotton ball rainbows look like lots of fun!

Rainbow pancakes

Paper Shamrock decorations

Learn about sizing while creating this rainbow

Rainbow wind catchers

Make some Leprechaun spoon puppets

Bake a rainbow cake

Make rainbow rock candy

Another Leprechaun hat idea

Make pots of gold for a gift for someone special

And if that isn't enough inspiration...here is a link to 100 more St Patricks Day activities.

Paper Shamrocks DIY

These shamrocks are so quick and easy to make you will find yourself with an armload in no time.

1) Gather your supplies
-paper
-paper cutter (scissors if you don't have one)
-stapler

(not shown: glue and thread to hang)

2) I first saw this idea HERE and knew this would be a great craft Sierra could put together in no time flat. Here is how we made ours. Chose three colours of contrasting papers in greenish tones. I had three greens but two of them were very similar so I used yellow for the centre instead of the third green.

My papers were 9"X12" in size to begin with. I used a green paper with sparkles in it for the outer piece and cut (with my paper cutter) that paper into 1" strips along the longest side of the paper (1"X12" strips).

3) Next I chose the darkest green and cut it into 1" strips. However this time I cut them along the short side of the paper so I ended up with 1"X9" strips.

4) For the yellow centres I cut 1"X12" strips the same size as the first green pieces.

5) You will end up with a pile of strips. Each shamrock requires 1 yellow (my centre colour choice), and two each of two shades of different sized green papers.

6) Take a yellow strip and fold it in half.

7) Layer a short dark green piece, the two of the longer green pieces and then another short dark pieces and stack these in between the folded yellow centre piece and staple together to hold in place.

8) Fold the yellow centre piece over outwards, to touch the base as shown below.

9) Repeat and fold the dark green piece over and then the light piece.

10) Carefully flip it over and repeat steps 9 and 10 on the other side and staple to secure all pieces together in place.

11) Repeat to make three of these heart shapes.

12) Cut the excess paper off below the staple.

13) Hot glue the three hearts together and add a strip of paper to be the stem.

14) Attach a string and hang. I originally planned to hang these in the window but they are quite big and being green they were a bit hard to see.

 

So we hung them near our photo wall above our couch.

We also tried to make a smaller size by cutting off two inches from each piece before assembling the pieces but it didn't make a huge size diference. If you want smaller ones I'd recommend taking 4" off each piece.

Sierra made hers pretty much by herself. She cut the strips, placed the pieces together in order, did the first staple to secure them. She then folded them over one by one but asked for help doing the final staple as the pieces kept slipping and she found it frustrating to have to redo it.

All in all I think these turned out pretty cute and were a simple craft for her to do pretty much by herself. We don't do a lot of St Patricks Day decorating but a splash of colour this winter is always welcome in my house!