Top 19 St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Preschoolers

Get Your Little Leprechauns Excited for St. Patrick’s Day with These 19 Fun Crafts!

Kids love any reason to celebrate (so do we), and this month it’s St. Patrick’s Day! This cultural celebration revolves around the color green, shamrocks, leprechauns, and fun parades. For preschoolers, this means lots of fun crafts to work on!

Here are 19 crafts you can do to celebrate this fun holiday:

Shamrock Wand

Preschoolers love waving wands around, and this shamrock wand is a great activity that will keep them occupied for hours, first making the wand and then playing with it after. To make this, you’ll need green construction paper, gold ribbon, and gold glitter. Enjoy!

Bubble Wrap Shamrock Craft

If you have extra bubble wrap that you’re unsure what to do with, use it for bubble wrap painting. We guarantee your preschoolers will have loads of fun with this bubble wrap shamrock craft that also uses glitter, buttons, and sequins – just be ready for the mess!

Paper Plate and Handprint Leprechaun Mask

Handprint crafts are always special because you can look at them years later and remember how tiny your child’s hands were. We guarantee your preschooler will look adorable as a leprechaun with their funny handprint orange beard!

Leprechaun Finger Gnome Puppets

This fun craft combines leprechauns, gnomes, and finger puppets in one cute activity. Sold! You and your preschooler will enjoy working on making this together then playing with them. This is definitely a St. Patrick’s activity you shouldn’t miss making!

Shamrock Picture Frame

We love this cute activity to do in school or daycare that kids can give to their parents as a St. Patrick’s Day keepsake. All you need is a shamrock template, cardstock, green paint, and pompoms. The kids can paint the shamrock and glue the pompoms all around it. Your child’s adorable face is the finishing touch!

PomPom Painted Rainbow

You can’t think of leprechauns without thinking of rainbows. This fun rainbow activity is great because it lets kids use something unique to paint – pompoms! Making this also exercises their fine motor skills because a clothespin holds each pompom. We’re sure this activity will be a fast favorite for any child.

Leprechaun Hats

Preschoolers love dressing up, so we guarantee they’ll love this leprechaun hat! Preschoolers may need a little help constructing the hat itself. Still, they’ll have a blast decorating their hat with paint, glitter, or anything else you have lying around. Remember to take lots of photos of your child walking around in this cute hat.

Shamrock Thumbprint

Here is a fun and easy activity to do with your child or preschool class that doesn’t need any prep. All you need is a shamrock template (available in the link above), paint, and some cute thumbs! Let your preschooler experiment with different colors and let their creativity shine.

Crepe Paper Shamrock

Here’s another fun activity that hardly needs any prep. You’ll need green crepe paper, glue, and a shamrock template. That’s it! Ask your preschooler to tear and crumple the green crepe paper before gluing on onto the shamrock for extra fine-motor skill practice. You can hang up the shamrocks as decor for the holiday.

Toilet Tube Leprechaun

It’s time to use all those saved toilet paper rolls to make this cute leprechaun. All you need to do is wrap the toilet paper roll with green paper. Then you and your preschooler can add a paper face, eyes, a mouth, and an orange paper beard. Make your leprechaun look like a traditional one or your preschooler can dress them up any way they want. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

St Patrick’s Day Wreath

Add a splash of color to holiday by combining bright rainbows with a cute shamrock. This activity is a definite yes for us! Your kids can use traditional rainbow colors or experiment with mixing and matching colors. When you’re done, you can hang this cute wreath while waiting for St. Patrick’s Day to arrive.

3D Rainbow Craft

Here’s another simple rainbow craft you can make with your preschooler. All you need is construction paper, cotton balls, and glue. We love the 3D effect of the finished product that’s nice and neat enough to showcase even in your living room.

Beaded Shamrock

This beautiful activity develops your preschooler’s fine motor skills while working on their concentration too. All you need are pipe cleaners, green beads, and your hands to form the pipe cleaners into a shamrock after. This is perfect as St. Patrick’s Day giveaways to friends and family.

Green Glitter Playdough

Here’s a special batch of playdough for an equally special occasion. This recipe for green glitter playdough is great for shaping leprechauns and shamrocks this St. Patrick’s Day. Your preschooler will spend hours (or at least an hour) playing with this fun playdough.

Shamrock Slime

Where there’s playdough, slime usually follows. Here’s a recipe for glittery St. Patrick’s slime with an added bonus of shamrock confetti. If your child is a slime expert, just add green shamrock confetti and glitter to your existing recipe to make it perfect for St. Patrick’s Day.

Fork Leprechaun Art

This is a quick and easy art activity for when you want your preschooler occupied for a few minutes. Simply print out a leprechaun template, get some red paint, and a fork, and you’re all set!

Shamrock Stained Glass

We love how creative this activity is! Get the look of real stained glass with some paint, different kinds of paper, and other art materials you have at home. Click on the link above to get the full tutorial.

Leprechaun Trap

There’s nothing cuter than a leprechaun trap! This homemade leprechaun trap using cereal boxes will help your little one catch these quick creatures. Whether you catch one or not, your preschooler will love the process of making this adorable art activity.

St. Patrick’s Day Windsocks

These adorable windsocks are perfect for hanging inside your classroom or your child’s room. Choose between a fun pot of gold, a quirky leprechaun, or a colorful rainbow. Complete templates are available on the link above!

St. Patrick’s Day is another great holiday to celebrate with kids of all ages, especially preschoolers! These fun craft activities are guaranteed to get them into the season’s spirit. May you find a lot o’ gold at the end of your rainbow this St. Patrick’s Day!