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Home » Education » Homeschool Art » Shamrock Wall Hanging

Shamrock Wall Hanging

March 12, 2013 by Crystal McClean

While thinking about what we could make for St. Patrick’s Day this year, I had a look in our craft cupboard.  Our store of empty paper towel rolls needs to be thinned down a little, so we’ve decided to make a shamrock wall hanging.

Cardboard Tube Shamrock Wall Hanging is a fun and colourful way to upcycle and create some beautiful artwork

Shamrock Wall Hanging

I took out some squares of heavy cardboard hiding in the back of our craft cupboard.  The children painted their interpretations of a rainbow onto these squares.  This is a great opportunity for a quick lesson/review of colour mixing with the paints.  I moved these to the cupboard and gave each child a cardboard roll to paint green.  These then sat over the weekend to dry.

Rainbows crafts, St. Patrick's Day crafts, shamrock crafts for kids, paint mixing for kids, photo

I showed Tristan how to measure out widths of about 3cm along the cardboard roll and make a mark at each place.

Cardboard roll crafts, Shamrock crafts for kids, Crystal's Tiny Treasures Childminding in Whitehead, photo

He then gently squeezed the roll and cut the roll through at each of his marks.

Cardboard roll crafts, Shamrock crafts for kids, Crystal's Tiny Treasures Childminding in Whitehead, photo

Then Tristan and I carefully shaped the pieces of cardboard roll into heart shapes.  Each picture needs 3 or 4 hearts and an oval as well.

Cardboard roll crafts, Shamrock crafts for kids, Crystal's Tiny Treasures Childminding in Whitehead, photo

Now it’s time to glue the hearts onto the background board.  If the glue doesn’t work for you, use some masking tape to hold the hearts in place.  you can then paint over the masking tape to hide it.  We used a tacky craft glue, and it dried clear and worked fine.  Arrange the hearts with the pointy ends in the middle.  This will form your clover.  Use the oval piece of cardboard roll for the stem.

St. Patrick's Day crafts for kids, upcycled crafts, photo

If you want to make this a little more complex for older children, they can paint the inside of the cardboard roll as well after it has been cut.  For this year we have skipped this step.

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Feel free to add some glitter or other embellishments as you see fit or have on hand.  We used some chocolate wrappers to make little pots of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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Tape a little ribbon loop to the back of the board when everything has dried and you have a lovely seasonal wall hanging.

Rainbows crafts, St. Patrick's Day crafts, shamrock crafts for kids, paint mixing for kids, photo

Check back later in the week and I’ll post about how we’ve turned this shamrock wall hanging into a fun game!

If you are looking for Irish inspiration for your weekend meals, why not try Northern Irish Champ or Colcannon?  To see all of our St. Patrick’s Day activities head over to our St. Patrick’s Day page, or follow us on Pinterest.  Or see our Multicultural Activities for Kids page where you’ll find all of our multicultural ideas in one place.

And here are more fantastic ideas for St. Patrick’s Day crafts via #GetYourCraftOn:

  • Red Ted Art has some pretty paper hearts.
  • Zing Zing Tree has some lovely rainbow paint bleed art.
  • Damson Lane has made some colourful rainbow fans.
  • Here Come The Girls have a rainbow window decoration that will delight the neighbours.
  • Grace’s Favours – Craft Adventures has had the sewing machine out to make a rainbow and cloud mobile.
  • Kathy’s cluttered mind has made mixed media rainbow art.
  • The Gingerbread House some gold salt dough coins.
  • Hodge Podge shares how to make a pop-up shamrock card.
  • Domestic Goddesque has 2 ideas to share; leprechaun hot chocolate and painting leprechauns with straws.

Filed Under: Craft, Europe, Homeschool Art, Recycling, St. Patrick's Day Tagged With: Cardboard tubes, Ireland, painting, Rainbows, Red Ted

About Crystal McClean

I am a Mom, Wife, Home Educator, and Virtual Assistant. We love to have fun together while learning and exploring our environment.

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Comments

  1. mermaid says

    April 6, 2013 at 10:37 am

    Oh I love this idea 🙂

    • Crystal McClean says

      April 7, 2013 at 10:23 am

      You can get more creative as the children grow by painting the inside of the leaves, adding glitter, or a leprachaun. Have fun!

  2. Gude @HodgePodgeCraft says

    March 9, 2014 at 9:21 pm

    Thanks for the mention 🙂
    Your wall hanging looks great! x

    • Crystal McClean says

      March 23, 2014 at 1:02 pm

      Thank you! I’m glad I can link up your fabulous idea as well 😉

  3. Kirsty says

    March 10, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    We have lots of kitchen rolls waiting to be used up and this shamrock craft is perfect. Thank you so much for mentioning our Rainbow Fans x

    • Crystal McClean says

      March 23, 2014 at 2:00 pm

      It was my pleasure to link your cool Rainbow Fans. Aren’t cardboard rolls an essential craft item for every child? Happy crafting!

  4. Jenny says

    March 11, 2014 at 10:57 pm

    Many thanks for including me!

    • Crystal McClean says

      March 19, 2014 at 11:32 pm

      It’s my honour, Jenny! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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  1. Hodge Podge Craft » Make a pop-up shamrock card for St Patrick’s day says:
    February 22, 2014 at 10:47 pm

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