Textures And Patterns Shamrock – A Super Easy Kids Craft
Textures And Patterns Shamrock
A Super Easy Kids Craft for St. Patrick’s Day
Show off your child’s art making it into a keepsake.
Painting and crafting with kiddos is so much fun. We have kids paintings and crafts all over the house – sweet little reminders of the little blessings we have been given. But sometimes I think we will run out of house for all these crafts!
So lately, I’ve been trying to do crafts we can use as cute little decor and become keepsakes. For keepsakes, the quality of paper used will make a big difference. I like to use acid-free paper for painting as well as backing. You can find it here. The acid free paper will not turn yellow so we can enjoy the kids artwork even after they are all grown-up 
With this in mind, I designed a super easy kids craft keepsake. Just frame it and use it in March for St Patrick’s day. Plus the kids will learn while they play!
St. Patrick Kids Art Project
Learning while we have fun:
This craft helps kids practice painting and mixing colors, experiment with textures, drawing shapes, combine shapes and lines to create patterns, and practice cutting and pasting.
You will need
- Acid free paper and cardstock for the backing (but you can use any paper you prefer)
- Water based paint: green, white, yellow and purple.
- Paint brushes
- Glue
- Scissors
- Tracing paper or wax paper.
I order supplies online, you can check it out clicking here.
Making Textures And Patterns Shamrock
Step 1
Cut the cardstock to 5×7″ (so it fits a standard frame)
Paint it with purple teaching the kids to use different brush strokes in different directions to create some texture.
Remember the more texture the better! Cover the paper completely.
Why purple background?
I’ve seen a lot of St Patrick’s day craft and it is just too green for my taste. Using complimentary colors makes the artwork pop!
But you can use any color for the background.
Step 2
While that the background is drying, on the painting paper put little dabs of green, white and a tiny bit of yellow and let your little one mix them as much or as little as they want.The more color variation the better.
We ended up mixing ours quite a bit but you can still see the different shades of green.
Make sure you have enough paint on the paper so you can’draw’on it. Not excessive amounts or it won’t dry quickly.
Let it dry a bit then, let the kids use the end of a paintbrush and ‘draw’ on the paint. Practice circles, squares, rectangles, create patterns within them.
Step 3
Using the template provided, draw the shamrock onto the tracing paper (but wax paper works just fine-in case you don’t have any on hand like me :). Draw the whole shamrock once and also three leaves separately.
Help the kiddos cut each leave separated and placing it on to the painted paper cut 3 leaves and a stem.
Using the shamrock you just drew onto the tracing paper, gently delineate the shape for the kids to see where to paste the leaves. Then glue them on to background piece and its ready to be framed! Super easy and fun!
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Hope you enjoy!
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Feb 18, 2015 | Category: Art Prints, Freebies, Kid Crafts, kids | Comments: 29 | Tags: Free, fun with a message, Holidays, Kids, kids crafts, room decor, Shamrock, St. Patrick's Day
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Jennifer says:
This is so great! I’ve included this activity in my 17 St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Kids roundup post here http://livinginhisway.blogspot.ca/2015/03/17-st-patricks-day-activities-for-kids.html
Amanda Evans says:
Cute texture and design ideas! Thanks for linking up at #MeetUpMonday! Hope to see you again tomorrow!! (www.OddsandEvans.com)
Let kids be kids says:
Great creative ideas! Thats a good way to get the children exploring paint and texture in a fun way.
Thanks for linking #LetKidsBeKids
Kaitlyn @Three Sisters & Us says:
Great idea! I featured this great craft on the TGIF Blog & Instagram Hop this Friday. We also updated our Blog hop button if you would like the new version.
Kaitlyn
Ashley Egan says:
Brilliant! This is just brilliant! Thanks for linking up to Awesome Life Friday!
Fun With A Message says:
Your words are so kind
Jen@The Evolution of Mom says:
What a fun project! St. Patricks Day is a difficult one because there aren’t a lot of crafts out there. You nailed it on this one! Thanks for sharing on Momma Told Me. We hope you’ll come back soon!
~Jen
Fun With A Message says:
Thank you for your kind words Jen! Look forward to stay in touch
Iulia Gulia (Best of Baby) says:
What a fun and timely project! My son was born around St. Patricks day…this would be a neat thing for him to do on his birthday
Pinning this 
Thanks for linking up with the Ladies Collective Linkup. Hope to see you again on Wednesday! http://www.bestofbabylady.com
Karren Haller says:
My 2 favorite colors together, your designs are neat, what seems to be finger painting will never go out of style!Your final shamrock is great! I was just thinking about my scrapbook supplies I have from last year I need to get out and see what I can come up with.
Thank you for visiting and sharing on Friday Feature!!
Hope you have a great weekend, Karren @ Oh My Heartsie Girl
Pam says:
This is a great kids project! I love it. Your directions are awesome too. Thanks so much for linking up to Craft Therapy Thursday at P.S. I Love You Scrapbooking. A new link party started today. I hope you will join me!
Bridget/The Recipe Wench says:
Looks like a ton of fun! My daughters are grown now but we used to do stuff like this all the time. I love it — definitely, definitely, definitely preserve these treasures! Thanks for sharing this craft with us at Inspire Me Mondays. Have a great week and we’ll see you soon!
Brittany says:
What a cute and fun craft! Thanks for sharing at the #HomeMattersParty – we hope you’ll join us again next week
Lindi says:
This is such a creative kids project! Looks great!! Thanks so much for sharing
#SCBH2015
Jamie says:
That is adorable!! I always remember doing the ones with tinfoil and string when I was younger. I love this one!
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