A 'Green' St. Patrick's Day Craft for Kids

This stand-up shamrock craft from the Enchanted Learning website is green in more ways than one.

Materials

• Green cardstock or cardboard from a cereal box (or other stiff paper)
• A tube of toilet paper
• Green paint
• Paintbrush
• Scissors
• Optional: glitter, markers, googly eyes, etc.

Instructions

• Cut the toilet paper tube in half to create a short cylinder approximately two inches tall. Each shamrock requires half a tube.

•  On the half tube, cut two 1/2-inch slits, one on each side. The paper shamrock will be inserted into the tube.

• To make the shamrock, use stiff cardboard to cut out a large shamrock.

•  Using stiff cardboard (for example, from a cereal box), cut out a large shamrock. Click here for a shamrock template.

• Paint the shamrock and the tube green and let them dry.

• Once the paint is dry, add decorations to the shamrock, with markers, glitter and googly eyes.

• Insert the shamrock into the slits on the tube.

• If you make more than one standing shamrock, cluster them together in the center of the table for a quick and easy centerpiece.

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