St Paddy's Day Crafts

St. Paddy's Day is a great time to enjoy some fun craft projects. Share the holiday with your friends and family by sending fun cards. Make sure that you remember to wear something green on St. Paddy's Day. If you want to really go wild, make sure to wear lots of green.

Painting with Leaves

As summer changes to fall it becomes time to start planning more exciting indoor activities for days when the weather is poor. One great way to combine the beauty of fall with a good indoor and outdoor activity is to enjoy some leaf painting crafts. Painting is a fantastic and creative indoor activity for bad weather days and using leaves allows you to combine the fun of your indoor craft with enjoying the outdoors on good weather days. Here are some fun leaf painting crafts for kids of all ages.

How to Make Hand Print Animals

Appropriate for kids of all ages with adult supervision.

Supplies
construction paper
scissors
tape or glue
markers
pencils

Select some pieces of paper in colors you like, then use a pencil to trace your hand on each sheet.  With the scissors, cut out your hand prints.  When you have a number of cut-outs, sit down with your paper and see what animals you can make.  Can you make a turkey out of one of the cut-outs?  Can you use them to make a butterfly, with the hands as wings and an oval body cut out from paper?  How about bird's wings?  Try overlapping a number of hand prints and see what you can design.