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March 8, 2013

Stained Glass Shamrock Craft

Are you looking for a simple St. Patrick’s Day craft.  Your kids will love making these simple Shamrock Sun Catchers   They are the perfect way to brighten your window.  As promised here is another post using the Cardboard template from our Glitter Shamrocks.  I love how this simple Stained Glass Shamrock Craft turned out!

Stained Glass Shamrock ~ St. Patrick's Day Sun Catcher

Stained Glass Shamrock Supplies:

  • Cardboard Template from the Glitter Shamrocks (click on the red link to see how to make a template)
  • Black tempera paint
  • Large Coffee Filter
  • Green and Yellow Liquid Water Colors
  • Pipette (infant medication droppers work great too)

Stained Glass Shamrock ~ St. Patrick's Day Sun Catcher

Have your kiddos paint the template black, creating a silhouette.  We chose to cut our template into a circle, but no need to.  You could also use black paper and skip with step:)  Set the silhouette aside to dry. Stained Glass Shamrock ~ St. Patrick's Day Sun Catcher

Fine Motor Practice

Place your coffee filter onto a shallow tray to help contain the mess (a Styrofoam meat tray works great).  Use the Medicine dropper or pipette to squeeze up the liquid watercolor and then squirt it onto the coffee filter.  This is a great fine motor exercise for toddlers.  It take concentration and coordination to squeeze up the liquid and then squirt it back out.  For another coffee filter variation, check out our Monster Marker prints.

Stained Glass Shamrock ~ St. Patrick's Day Sun Catcher

The kids enjoyed watching the colors pool and mix.  This is a great way to see color mixing.  The colors blend together right on the coffee filter, creating a new color.

Stained Glass Shamrock ~ St. Patrick's Day Sun Catcher

St. Patrick’s Day Sun Catcher

Once everything is dry, glue the colorful filter onto the backside of the cardboard.  We just used a glue stick, and it worked great.

Stained Glass Shamrock ~ St. Patrick's Day Sun Catcher

These little Stained Glass Shamrocks are a perfect window decoration for St. Patrick’s Day!

Stained Glass Shamrock ~ Easy St Patrick's Day Craft

Looking for more St Patrick’s Day Crafts?  Check out our

Glitter Shamrocks

Rainbow Q-tip Painting

Shamrock Sprouts 

Racing Balloon Leprechauns

Shamrock Crystals

Credit Card Art

 

Related posts:

  1. Rainbow Shamrock Craft
  2. Coffee Filter Shamrock
  3. My Favorite Shamrock Cookie Cutter
  4. Easter Stained Glass Art
Posted in Holidays, Kid Art, Spring and tagged Cereal Boxes, Coffee Filters, Kid Art, Painting, Shamrock, Spring, St. Patrick's Day, Window Art.

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Related posts:

  1. Rainbow Shamrock Craft
  2. Coffee Filter Shamrock
  3. My Favorite Shamrock Cookie Cutter
  4. Easter Stained Glass Art
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6 thoughts on “Stained Glass Shamrock Craft”

  1. Jane Nagle on March 8, 2013 at 6:57 pm said:

    Cute! But not a shamrock…..they only have 3 petals

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    • Barb on March 9, 2013 at 12:41 pm said:

      Some shamrocks have four (they’re just not very common).

      Love them! They’re gorgeous.

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  2. Diana Rambles on March 9, 2013 at 9:32 am said:

    Love this one too!!

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  3. Susan Call Hutchison on March 9, 2013 at 2:52 pm said:

    Great project. Like how it gives experience in color combination, and comparing how some things soak up liquid, and somethings don’t, while some paper lets light through, and the paper we painted doesn’t…..and on and on! Love it.

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  4. The Iowa Farmer's Wife on March 16, 2013 at 8:50 pm said:

    Love!! I love coffee filters SO much! This is lovely! We did something similar, but I love the outline! Makes them pop so much more! Featuring today on the Sunday Showcase!

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  5. Bonnie on March 2, 2014 at 5:05 pm said:

    This is such a great idea!

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