Are you looking for a simple St. Patrick’s Day craft for kids to do? Rainbow Heart Clovers give your kids practice with measuring and stapling, plus they’re just so colorful and fun!
I have to be honest. In the past couple of years I really scaled down the amount of crafts I do with my kids.
Some of this had to do with the fact that we moved twice and painted 3 houses in 2015. Some of it has to do with the fact that my 3rd pregnancy really sucked and I just didn’t feel up to dealing with crafts with my kids.
Whatever the reason or combination of reasons, I’ve been realizing lately that we really need to bring more crafts back into our homeschooling days.
My kids love crafts. And they don’t mind doing them by themselves. But as I looked back at pictures from old blog posts where the kids and I did crafts together, I realized that I’m missing out by not sharing that experience with them.
I remember how much fun we had painting and creating together, and I want to make sure to keep that a priority, at least once a month. So I decided we would start with an easy St. Patrick’s Day craft, so we made these rainbow heart clovers.
To make rainbow heart clovers you need:
- Construction paper in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple
- Stapler
I let the kids work on measurements with this project. You’ve always got to incorporate learning if you’re homeschooling, right? So I told them how long to measure each piece.
We cut 3 strips of each color as wide as our ruler, which is 1″.
Then we folded each strip in half. While they were folded in half, we cut them.
We left the green as is, which is 6″.
The yellow we cut 5 1/2″.
The orange we cut 5″.
The red we cut 4 1/2″.
The purple we cut 4″.
The blue we cut 3 1/2″.
So there should be 3 of each color cut at these lengths.
We cut another piece for the stem from the green, and this piece was 1″ wide by 5″ long.
To put these together, make a heart with the blue piece, then put one end of the purple into the crevice of the heart, pull the other end around, and tuck it in to the crevice as well.
(Sorry that these hearts are all upside down. I didn’t really think that through while I was making them!)
Then continue to add each color in rainbow order. Once all the colors are part of the heart, staple the ends.
After making 3 hearts in this way, staple the hearts together in between, and add the stem.
Super simple, but fun. My kids had a blast with this, and they went on to make dozens of other items out of construction paper and staples.
Here are some more St. Patrick’s Day ideas for you:
It’s always fun to do edible crafts. I’m pretty sure that’s why Fruit Loops Rainbows are always a big hit with my kids.
St. Patrick’s Day Parfaits are a delicious treat that are perfect for celebrating your favorite Irish holiday! Layers of pudding, lime pound cake, and Lucky Charms.
This St. Patrick’s Day craft can be put together quickly with items you’re sure to have hanging around the house. Plus, it includes the story of St. Patrick.
Teach the Trinity with Trinity Shamrocks.
Continue with the shamrock theme with these Shamrock Rice Crispy Treats.
St. Patrick’s Day isn’t complete at my house unless we’ve had Soda Bread. It is such an easy bread to make, with just 4 ingredients!
I hope you have a fabulous St. Patrick’s Day!
What kind of crafts have you been doing with your kids? I’d love it if you would share it with me in the comments. I read every single one!
I like that this is not a “messy” craft. That’s what usually interfered with crafts around here. I don’t mind the mess of the actual *creating*, but I don’t want to have to clean up from having glue or glitter or paint slopped all over everywhere afterward! This, we could manage.
I hear you, Rachel! Our lives are messy enough, without added craft mess! I hope you have fun with this!
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These are so adorable and simple to make! I love doing little crafts with my kids and am always looking for some new ideas for them. This is something they can do.
There’ll be loads of fun making this!!!
I wish our kids would do more crafts like this in school – sometimes the stuff they home home with…
My son has recently discovered the stapler-he would LOVE this!
Hahaha, I think my kids went through 100 staples working on these! But I figured it was worth it since they were having fun and being creative!
What a great idea. I love how the final product turns out without a ton of materials.
Thanks! Since we homeschool and homestead, low-cost crafts are huge for us! It stretches us to be more creative 🙂
How cute! I love that you incorporated clovers and rainbows! My daughter will love to make these
Thanks, Kristen! I knew I wanted to do something rainbow, and then it evolved from there. I hope your daughter enjoys it!
Aww these are so easy and simple to do! I love this idea! I like how I can make these with my toddlers!
These are fabulous for toddlers! One of my favorite things about homeschooling is that was can all work on a project together. The older kids gets more added to their project (like measuring, cutting, and stapling), while the little one can still participate with my help or the help of a sibling!
this is really cute. we just made our leprechaun traps and the kids wanted to make more crafty stuff. I’m so bad w/ that stuff but this is perfect, I can handle this. Thanks!
It’s nice and easy, and requires no crazy craft supplies! That’s my style of craft 🙂 And they seem just as happy with the simple ones!
These are super cute. The hearts could be made into mobiles too. That would be pretty, dancing around in the light.
That’s a great idea, Debi! I’ll have to give it a try!
Love all the colors. What a fun project!
This looks like a really fun activity! Growing up I wasn’t the crafts-y one, my sister though would make all kinds of neat projects. I’m sure she would love to do this with her daughter.
My sister was always more crafty than me, as well. She is so much more creative than I am! But my daughter adores crafts, so I’ve been trying to do more of them with her.