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Here’s another really easy craft you can do for St. Patrick’s Day using paper plates.
This project developed out of the tradition in some families of setting a Leprechaun Trap where you decorate the bottom of a shoebox and set it up on a stick to trap a Leprechaun on St. Patrick’s Day. Maybe this is just a weird tradition in our area… I don’t know.
If you catch a leprechaun, he’s supposed to leave you some “gold,” which is usually some plastic gold coins. We decided to make these little pots for him to put the “gold” into one year, but there are probably lots of other ideas that you could incorporate with this one.
What You’ll Need:
- 2 Heavy paper plates
- 1 – 12 inch black chenille stem
- Black paint
- Scissors
- Paint brush
- Stapler
What to Do:
1. Put the two plates together with the eating surfaces facing each other. Cut the top third of the paper plates off and discard.
Cut two little notches in the sides and round one side to make a pot shape. Take a look at the picture if my directions are confusing. (It’s a little hard to explain!)
If you’re making these in a class, you may want to just create a template and have the kids trace the pot onto each plate and then cut them out.
2. Staple the plates together around the rounded part… don’t staple the notches yet.
3. Bend the black chenille slightly to make a handle and staple each end into the notch as you staple the notched edges together.
4. Paint the plates black and let dry completely.
Now each child has their own pot to put their gold into!
You can put gold chocolate coins in the pot to surprise children with. If you’re planning on “catching” a Leprechaun, he can buy back his freedom by putting some gold chocolate coins into the pot.
You could also use the shamrock template to put a nice green shamrock on the front of your pot to make it a little more festive!
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Thanks alot for sharing the idea. My kids like it and they put something inside the pot.
By the way your shamrock template is a clover. the shamrock template has only three leaves as St Patrick brought Christianity to ireland and preached about the three gods in one using the three leaves of the shamrock saying they represent God the father, God the son and God the holy spirit.