Leprechaun Hats

You need :
Green Gift Wrap 
Beach Bucket 
Masking Tape 
Old Belt (or paper or cloth strip)

Instructions :
Measure around the rim of the bucket with the belt and punch another hole and cut off the extra piece of belt. Loop belt into a circle and buckle the belt. If you are using paper bags, open up the sides and cut off the bottoms. Tape them together. Place paper centered over the upside-down beach bucket. Press paper down with hands around bucket to shape. Place looped belt over the top and push down to the bottom of the bucket near the rim securing the paper in place. Remove the hat from bucket.

Leprechaun Poem Craft

You need :
Neon Green Foam Frames 
Poem (you can write it yourself)
Foamie Shamrocks 
Tacky Glue
Sequins 
Card Stock 
Magnet or Cardboard Easels
Scissors

Instructions :
Print the poem on the card stock. Trim and glue behind the frame so that the poem shows through the opening of the frame. Decorate the frame by gluing foam shamrocks and sequins around the outside. Add magnets or easels, if required.

Shamrock Trinket Box

You need :
57 Craft Sticks
Green Paint and Brush
4 Large Heart Woodsies
or Foamie Shapes
Tacky Glue

Instructions :
Paint the four large woodsies green. Let it dry. Line up 12 craft sticks. Glue a 13th and 14 stick lengthwise across the top and bottom to hold them together. This will become the top. Make another set. This will become the bottom. Add two more stick on either side of the bottom lengthwise pieces to start building the sides. Continue adding stick alternating the top and bottom with the side until you have eight sitcks stacked. Let it dry. Glue the four hearts on the top in the shape of a shamrock.

Blarney Stone Craft

You need :
A smooth, clean river rock 
Green paint 
Brush 
Glue 
Glitter, sequins, plastic jewels, googly eyes, bits of yarn, etc. 
Markers

Instructions :
1.Make sure your rock is clean and dry. Paint the rock green.
2.After the paint dries, decorate your rock with glitter, beads, sequins, plastic jewels, bits of yarn, googly eyes, or other interesting items.
3.When the paint and glue are dry, add facial features like eyebrows etc. using markers. Your very own Blarney Stone is now ready!

St. Patrick's Day candles

You need :
Paraffin 
Pillar candle 
Green ribbon 
Coffee can 
Stickers, cutouts, confetti 
Acrylic paints 
Terra cotta saucer

Instructions :
Melt some paraffin inside a can placed in a pan of hot water (on the stove). Glue stickers, shamrock shaped confetti, cutouts, etc to a pillar candle and brush the melted paraffin over these shapes. Tie an appropriate ribbon around the middle of the candle. Paint the terra cotta saucer white and decorate the saucer in the same way as you did the candle for the holder. Remember to block the hole.