Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🙂 Did you remember to wear green? I hope nobody pinches you if you forgot! Today’s post is about making a leprechaun out of a paper plate! Sound fun? Let’s get started!
You will need a small paper plate that is blank on the back, some orange yarn (I couldn’t find solid orange yarn), glue, scissors, a peach or tan crayon, a black marker, green construction paper, a set of large wiggly eyes (or draw your own eyes) and some scraps of black, yellow and orange construction paper.
You will create your leprechaun on the BACK of the plate. Depending on how you look at the pictures, you might think we used the front, but we didn’t. 😉 Use the peach or tan crayon to color the back of the plate. It’s rather hard to see in the picture because the color is so light, sorry.
It’s time to make the leprechaun’s hat. Using the green construction paper, cut out a simple hat.
Use a strip of black paper to add a band to the hat.
Now we’ll make the buckle for the hat. Cut a square from the yellow paper that is a little bit larger than the height of the black band. Cut a small square from the black paper that is smaller than the yellow square. Glue the black square in the center of the yellow square.
Glue the buckle in the center of the black band on the hat.
To glue the hat onto the leprechaun’s face, apply glue to the top portion of the plate where the hat will touch.
Press the hat onto the plate.
Next cut 2 eyebrow shapes from the scrap of orange paper. Glue them on just below the bottom of the hat.
Glue on the wiggle eyes or draw on some eyes with the black marker.
Now draw on a bit of a nose and a mouth.
Cut a bunch of yarn pieces around 3 1/2 – 4″ long. You will need a lot of them! Lol This bunch is just a start. 😉 I used 102 pieces of yarn.
Put a small line of glue on the plate where the leprechaun’s chin would be. Lay the ends of the pieces of yarn on the glue, lining them up evenly.
Continue adding pieces of yarn until the leprechaun’s beard is as full as you want it to be.
And you’re finished! Great job! Your leprechaun is now ready for St. Patrick’s Day! Better keep an eye on him because leprechauns can be pretty sneaky and they love to play tricks on people! 😉 Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 🙂
The Kids Niche 