{"id":3489,"date":"2014-03-11T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T10:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2014-03-11T06:11:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T10:11:57","slug":"st-patricks-day-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/st-patricks-day-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick’s Day Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of our St. Patrick\u2019s Day party<\/a> plan this weekend was crafts for the kids.\u00a0 Unfortunately we didn\u2019t get to do much crafting between swimming and tadpole chasing time and dinner but since I had the stuff I decided to do the crafts with my girls anyways, so we\u2019ve spent the past few days crafting away!<\/p>\n

\"SONY<\/a>The one craft we did get to during the party that all the kids loved was green pepper clover printing.\u00a0 It\u2019s so ridiculously easy!\u00a0 All you do is cut the top\/bottom off of a pepper (I used bottoms because they were better shaped, you want bottoms that have 4 sections for a clover or 3 for a shamrock), dip it in some green paint and use it like a stamp.\u00a0 I did have to add \u201chandles\u201d to mine since I used bottoms (I stuck some wire Christmas ornament hangers into the middle of the pepper) but none of my peppers had stems anyways!<\/p>\n

Sunday morning I decided to do a crafting breakfast with the girls.\u00a0 I put out a bowl of Fruit Loops, some sqeezy icing, marshmallows and paper plates.\u00a0 The girls snacked as they made Fruit Loop rainbows using the icing as glue and the marshmallows as clouds.\u00a0 Honeybun had the idea to also use the mint chocolate marshmallows as grass and pots of gold.\u00a0 As you can see, Honeybun went with a traditional rainbow whereas Sugarplum took \u00a0a more avant-garde approach!<\/p>\n

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Sugarplum and I also made yarn wrapped clovers, similar to the hearts we made for Valentine\u2019s Day.\u00a0 I cut clover shapes out of plastic canvas and then used green and white variegated yarn to wrap the shape.\u00a0 These were much trickier than the hearts so would better suit older children.\u00a0 I did learn a few new tricks though.\u00a0 For starters, make sure you cut the shape without smooth edges, this is the benefit of the plastic canvas, you can cut just inside the lines to make jaggedy parts for the yarn to catch on.\u00a0 I also made a hanging loop to start this time by threading the end of the yard through one of the top holes and knotting it then wrapped over the knot and end!<\/p>\n

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I also found a super cute pot of gold craft using a hand print for the rainbow.\u00a0 While the one I based mine off of used a construction paper pot and wrappers from chocolate coins (like this<\/a>), I decided to try doing it all with their hands.\u00a0 I painted each finger a different color for the rainbow, did their palm along their fingers with gold and then the rest of their palm black.\u00a0 I then had them press their hands on a small canvas.\u00a0 Honeybun we had to do twice because the first colors I applied had already dried but we were able to just reapply and press again on top of the original.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t come out perfect since the dimensions of their hands were a bit odd for the picture I was going for, but I still think they are darn cute and will display them proudly each and every St. Patrick\u2019s Day from now on!<\/p>\n

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Part of our St. Patrick\u2019s Day party plan this weekend was crafts for the kids.\u00a0 Unfortunately we didn\u2019t get to do much crafting between swimming and tadpole chasing time and dinner but since I had the stuff I decided to do the crafts with my girls anyways, so we\u2019ve spent the past few days crafting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[93,118,117,116,115],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time-to-celebrate","tag-crafts","tag-kids-crafts","tag-rainbow","tag-shamrock","tag-st-patricks-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}