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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Kids love to recognize and name colors, including all the colors of the rainbow. We can provide fun color recognition activities that easily support this developing skill.
St. Patrick’s Day activities support recognizing and naming the color ‘green’.
And the green grass grows all around, all around……
Do you know this popular children’s song? It’s a fun lyric repeating the color ‘green’, a traditional St. Patrick’s Day color!
This is also a fun way to introduce nature, trees, and gardens.
This art activity is another way to include plants in your St. Patrick’s Day theme – shamrocks! Kids can color and paste shamrock cutouts to make a green garden.
Shamrock garden craft
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)
- Make green crafts.
Since the shamrock is the traditional plant for this holiday, and it’s green, it’s only natural that we want to have a shamrock craft.
This craft is easy to add to your St. Patrick’s Day theme at home or in the classroom.
Supplies
- cardstock
- crayons
- scissors
- glue stick
Instructions
Print the free template with plain shamrock cutouts for kids to color.
Shamrocks Preschool Art Activity
Or print this option with green shamrocks for kids to cut out and paste.
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.
This is a fun and easy craft for kids that supports their 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!
