Step-by-step tutorial
Step 1
Gather all your ingredients. We used poster board instead of construction paper to make our shamrocks sturdier and to allow for larger shamrocks. We also used leftover streamers from all our past birthday parties.
Step 2
I traced and cut out a shamrock shape out of the poster board. To get the shamrock shape, I put together three leftover hearts from our Valentine's Day crafts and traced them.
Step 3
To decorate the shamrocks, we cut up pieces of green streamers and scrunched them up. This was great for scissor practice for my 3-year-old since we only had to make short, simple cuts.
Step 4
The kids glued the crumpled tissue paper to the shamrock. My two-year-old was very meticulous about putting his pieces all over his shamrock.
Step 5
While the shamrocks dried, we tore off pieces of streamers in each color of the rainbow. My two-year-old had great fun finding each color for us and naming them.
Step 6
Once the shamrocks dried, we put a long strip of packaging tape in a circle on the back to hold the streamers.
Step 7
We taped the streamers to the back creating a rainbow. After finishing the first one, we realized that in order to make the rainbow look the right way from the front, we had to put it together backwards! (The opposite of this picture!)
Final result!
Once the rainbows were attached, we taped ribbon to the top and hung them on the door to decorate for St. Patrick's Day. The kids loved the rainbows and were so proud of their projects!
