Have fun this St. Patrick’s Day making this cute leprechaun handprint craft with your kids!
Now that my kids are a little older, we love celebrating the less popular holidays right along side the popular ones.
Things like Valentine’s Day, Earth Day, National Donut Day and of course, St. Patrick’s Day.
We don’t do anything over the top- just usually a few fun crafts or art projects and a delicious treat!
Today we’re sharing this simple leprechaun paper craft that kids will love to make. It’s another one of our easy handprint art and crafts for kids.
Read on below to see how simple it is to make with your kids or students.
Handprint Leprechaun Craft
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Supplies
- Colored cardstock (in orange, cream, pink, green, black and gold)
- Glue (this one is my favorite for thick paper)
- Scissors
- Black marker
- Leprechaun template (download form located at the end of this page)
Directions
Print the leprechaun template onto white card stock, cut out, then trace onto the corresponding colored card stock:
- top of hat = green
- bottom of hat = green
- band of hat = black
- face = cream
If you’re making multiple leprechauns or using in the classroom use the second template and print on the paper indicated at the bottom of the page. Cut out all the pieces.
Trace your child’s handprint onto an orange piece of cardstock and cut out.
Glue the cream face onto the palm of the handprint with the fingers facing down.
Glue the top of the hat onto the end of the palm, then glue the bottom of the hat at its edge.
Related: Minion Leprechaun Craft
Cut out a small black square and a slightly larger gold square. Glue the small black square onto the larger gold square.
Glue the black band at the base of the hat, then glue the gold and black square in the middle of that. Trim any overhang from the sides of the hat.
Cut out two small rectangles from the orange paper to use as eyebrows. Glue these just below the hat.
Cut out a small oval from pink or red paper to use as a nose. Glue the nose in the middle of the face.
If you don’t want to use paper, you can always let your child use markers to draw on the leprechaun’s eyebrows and nose! This will save you some extra cutting and may be easier for little hands.
Using the black marker, make two eyes below the eyebrows and a smile below the nose.
It’s a pretty simple craft your kids will love making for St. Patrick’s Day!
Since every child’s handprint will be a different size, you may want to increase or decrease the size of your template pieces to better fit the project.
The best way to do that is to change the size of the paper when printing. Usually, there’s an option that says “custom-size” or something similar.
If you need it bigger, simply put in a number greater than 100% and if you need it smaller type in a number smaller than 100%.
Here’s what it looks like on my Mac:
Of course, you can just freehand the pieces as well since they’re simple shapes and then you can make it exactly as you want!
Since this craft uses common supplies, it makes a great art project in the classroom too!
If you want to use the template don’t forget to enter your email in the form at the bottom of the post to have the link emailed to you.
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Handprint Leprechaun Craft
Make this cute and easy handprint leprechaun craft with the kids for St. Patrick's Day!
Materials
- Colored cardstock (in orange, cream, pink, green, black and gold)
- Glue (this one is my favorite for thick paper)
- Black marker
- Leprechaun template (download form located at the end of this page)
Tools
- Scissors
Instructions
- Download the leprechaun template, print and cut out the pieces.
- Trace your child's hand onto an orange piece of paper and cut out the handprint.
- Glue the cream leprechaun face onto the handprint, like in the pictures.
- Assemble the leprechaun's hat by gluing the top of the hat onto the end of the palm. Next, glue the bottom of the hat at its edge.
- Cut out a small black square and a slightly larger gold square. Glue the small black square onto the larger gold square.
- Glue the black band at the base of the hat, then glue the gold and black square in the middle of that. Trim any overhang from the sides of the hat.
- Draw on or cut out 2 small rectangles for the leprechaun's eyebrows.
- Use the black marker to draw on the eyes and smile.
- Cut out a small nose from pink paper and glue it to the middle of the face.
