I love spring activities for kids that combine a fun craft with an essential skill. This Shamrock Lacing Craft is the perfect example of a double-duty activity. Kids will create an eye-catching shamrock while working on those all-important fine motor skills.
This easy St Patrick's Day craft does require some adult assistance, but kids get to do all the fun lacing! Don't miss our 10 Shaving Cream Activities for Kids.
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🍀Why kids will love this Shamrock Lacing Card
- Kids of all ages will have fun while working on their fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination
- It can be displayed for St. Patrick's day
- Colorful craft that will entertain them
- Only requires a few craft supplies
🖍️Supply Notes
- Pencil - to make your shamrock shape on the plate.
- Paper plate - it is thicker than regular paper and circular shaped so it works perfectly for this craft.
- Yarns in rainbow colors - these will represent the rainbow and will be used to create the lacing effect.
- Scissors - to cut the shamrock shape out of the plate.
- Hole puncher - makes the holes for the lacing craft.
📋Step by step instructions
STEP 1: To make this fun St. Patrick's day craft, start by folding a white paper plate in half. Most paper plates have a ridged border. Trace this border to form the inside circle. Using a pencil, draw half a shamrock in the middle. When you do so, make sure to connect the bottom of the shamrock with the border.
STEP 2: Cut out the shamrock shape with scissors, leaving the stem intact.
STEP 3: Keeping the plate folded in half, use the hole punch to punch holes around the entire inside of the plate and on the edge of the shamrock.
This step really helps kids with important skills like hand strength.
STEP 4: To start lacing, get the red yarn and push it through the bottom left hole. Make a knot to secure the yarn. Then lace it through the holes in the shamrock to the holes around the border.
STEP 5: Repeat this same process with the orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple yarns to form a rainbow.
STEP 6: Secure each color end with a knot on the backside of the plate.
Now your shamrock lacing craft is complete!
This colorful rainbow shamrock leaf looks so pretty hung in a window to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
May the luck of the Irish be with you!
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✂️Expert Tips
Tip 1: If you warp the end of the yarn with a piece of tape it will prevent the yarn from fraying while your child is lacing.
Tip 2: If you want to display this, really pops with black or green cardstock paper in the background.
🤷🏻♀️Craft FAQs
It would be harder to punch holes through and the end result would not look as clean. For these reasons, I would only use paper plates.
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Shamrock Lacing Craft
Materials
- Pencil
- Paper plate
- Yarns in rainbow colors
- Scissors
- Hole puncher
Instructions
- To make this fun St. Patrick's day craft, start by folding a white paper plate in half. Most paper plates have a ridged border. Trace this border to form the inside circle. Using a pencil, draw half a shamrock in the middle. When you do so, make sure to connect the bottom of the shamrock with the border.
- Cut out the shamrock shape with scissors, leaving the stem intact.
- Keeping the plate folded in half, use the hole punch to punch holes around the entire inside of the plate and on the edge of the shamrock.
- To start lacing, get the red yarn and push it through the bottom left hole. Make a knot to secure the yarn. Then lace it through the holes in the shamrock to the holes around the border.
- Repeat this same process with the orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple yarns to form a rainbow.
- Secure each color end with a knot on the backside of the plate.
Megan says
Oh my god. These are so fun!
Sheila Rhodes says
I have a friend who works in a Senior Center, and I am going to show her this. It would be beautiful hanging on their doors and get those fingers moving!
Ali Gilbert says
This is ADORABLE! So creative. My daughter will love doing this. Thanks for the idea!
celeste says
I was looking for good crafts for the month of march that are festive, I am so glad I found this one and I cannot wait to try it with my toddler.
Marta Rivera says
Do you think it would be weird to have my kiddos do this craft? I love it so much, so what if they're thirteen and in high school!