6 Easy St Patrick’s Day and Shamrock crafts
Gorgeous Paper Vase
These adorable chicks are a great way to celebrate Springtime.
Age group: 18 months+
What you need:
- Thin Foam pads (like those used for cleaning)
- Potatoes
- paint
- Paper
- orange card
- black felt tip
What to do:
- place a foam pad onto a plate
- pour some yellow paint onto it and rub (you have now created a “ink pad”.
- Cut a potato in half and press the flat side into the paint.
- make sure the whole flat side is covered in paint and then press it to a clean sheet of paper to make the bodies. Allow to dry.
- Cut small triangles from the orange card for beaks.
- Stick them onto the chicks body shapes
- Draw legs, wings, a tail and an eye using the felt tip pen.
* You could use a googly eye instead of drawing one.
* Glue yellow feathers onto the body shape for wings.
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