Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by having students create this fun, holiday-themed craft.

This leprechaun handprint craft is a fun project to make for St. Patrick's Day.
 

What You Need

• Orange paint or markers
• Peach paint or markers
• Paintbrush
• Scissors
• Green, white, and black construction paper
• Glue
• Yellow button
• Sharpie permanent marker
• Shamrock stickers, if desired
   

What You Do

1. Paint your student's fingers orange and palm peach. Do not paint the thumb.
2. Place the painted hand on white construction paper to leave a handprint.
3. Add some hair to the handprint by painting the heel of the palm print orange. Allow the print to dry.
4. Cut a hat out of the green construction paper.
5. Cut a stripe for the hat out of the black construction paper.
6. Glue the hat and stripe together and then glue the combined piece onto the leprechaun print.
7. Glue a yellow button in the middle of the black strip. (If you don't have a yellow button, you can use any color button and paint it yellow.)
8. Using a Sharpie permanent marker, draw on a face.
9. Frame the white paper by gluing it onto a larger piece of black or green construction paper.
10. Write "Happy St. Patrick’s Day" on the image.
11. Add shamrock stickers as decorations!