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Pot of Gold Craft

This pot of gold craft is designed to keep kids having fun this St. Patrick's Day while working on their fine motor skills.
Author: Vicky

Materials

Instructions

  • Fold a white paper plate in half. Most paper plates have a ridged border. Trace the border to form the inside circle. You can make a pot of gold by drawing a circle with a long skinny triangle on top. 
  • Cut out the pot of gold shape with scissors.
  • Using the hole punch, punch 6 holes along the top of the pot of gold while the plate is folded in half. You'll need one hole for each color you will be using. Then hole punch along the inside circle of the plate.
  • Unfold the plate.
  • Using the green and black markers, color the pot of gold black and the bottom green for the grass.
  • To start lacing, begin with the red yarn on the first pot of gold hole and thread through and tie to secure. Then thread through the border hole on the back of the pot.
  • Sporadically add a yellow pony bead to the yarn before threading it back through the next hole. When finished, the beads will look like gold filling the pot.
  • Use this technique with all the colors of yarn. Each color will have its own hole at the top of the pot of gold. Secure each end on the back with a knot.
  • When you are done with the last color, secure it on the back of the plate with a knot.

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Notes

When you draw the pot initially on the paper plate, make sure the top rim is large enough to have room for 6 hole punches.
For an added pop of color, place a piece of background paper behind the completed craft. We used blue construction paper. You can use cardstock as well.
To make threading easier, wrap the end of the yarn in tape.