A fun St. Patrick's Day craft is easy to provide with shamrock cutouts. Get out the green crayons for this fine motor art activity with your preschoolers. 

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And the green grass grows all around, all around......

Do you know this popular children's song? It's a fun lyric that includes the color 'green', a traditional St. Patrick's Day color!

Kids love to recognize and name colors, all the colors of the rainbow.  We can provide fun color recognition activities that easily support this developing skill, activities for any day, any season.

• We draw attention to red for Valentine's Day, yellow for the sun in summer, brown for a spider on a branch.

St. Patrick's Day activities support early learners in recognizing and naming the color 'green'.

There are lots of different ways to include all things green in your everyday play with preschoolers.

• Wear green clothing.
• Eat green foods.
• Make green play dough.
• Read books about colors. (#ad)

This art activity includes coloring and pasting shamrock cutouts to make a green garden.

Shamrock garden craft

Since the shamrock is the traditional plant for this holiday, it's only natural that we want to have a shamrock craft.

Kids can color and glue shamrock cutouts with this simple art activity. Add it to your St. Patrick's Day theme at home or in the classroom.  

Related: DIY Shamrock Puzzle

Supplies for a shamrock picture

• cardstock
• crayons
• scissors
• glue stick

Instructions

Print the template with the shamrock pictures.

Print on heavier paper such as cardstock if available. Otherwise, use regular printer paper.

Cut out the shamrocks.

Design your picture!

1. Place the shamrock cutouts on plain paper. Arrange and rearrange until your picture is just right.

2. Glue the shamrock cutouts to the paper.

3. Color the shamrocks with crayons or markers. Experiment with various shades of green.

4. Add trees and grass or other drawings to your picture.

If preferred, kids can color the shamrocks first, then cut them out.

This step supports practicing scissor skills.

Experiment with various shades of green. Talk about the different colors.

In this picture we used blue-green, lime green and green. We also used a green marker.

This is a fun and easy craft for kids that brings out the creativity and exercises fine motor skills.

Display your pictures at home or in the classroom on St. Patrick's Day.

Shamrock cutouts garden

The end of the lyric above is......and the green grass grows all around.

Make this the greenest St Patrick's Day yet with your shamrock garden!

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