Easy leprechaun hat preschool craft different from other St Patrick’s Day paper craft for kids! It’s even a fun leprechaun craft for toddlers or St Patrick’s Day church craft / group St. Patrick’s Day craft for Sunday school. This easy kids activity also makes an easy leprechaun rainbow craft for any age or a group craft idea.
Best St Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Hat Preschool Craft Idea!
If you’re looking for leprechaun craft ideas for preschoolers or even easy St. Patrick’s Day activities for toddlers, try these leprechaun hats with rainbow hair! Here’s how to make a leprechaun hat out of construction paper. It’s such a fun way to celebrate the holiday with your little leprechauns!
How To Make a Leprechaun Craft
St Patty’s Day Hat Craft Materials:
- White construction paper
- Black construction paper
- Red, orange, yellow, green paper, blue, and purple construction paper (stock paper / craft paper)
- Green finger paint (favorite green paint for little hands)
- Gold glitter (for your three or four-leaf clover, aka: paper clover)
- Scissors
- Glue stick or tape
- Black marker
Get the full St. Patrick’s Day Craft directions below for this simple craft! KEEP SCROLLING for the St Patrick’s Day hat craft printable craft card — great kids’craft idea for easy paper crafts for St. Patty’s Day!
Saint Patricks Day DIY Project (Leprechaun Hat Crafts For Preschoolers And Up!)
I love this leprechaun gnome craft because it’s not only a fun leprechaun art craft, but it also allows preschool or toddler ages to practice colors with the rainbow hair coming from the hat and for the green leprechaun top hat! (You can even add an orange leprechaun beard under the hat!)
And, bonus points for cuteness for the leprechaun hat name for each child on it!
It’s also a fun St Patrick’s day painting craft because the kids get to have fun finger painting the hat (which is a great way to practice fine motor skills)!
ST. PADDY’S DAY CRAFT TIPS: These are our favorite washable finger paints. Grab these cheap art smocks if you’re doing this as a group craft with little ones.
I happen to think these fun hats are way cuter than those popsicle sticks leprechaun hats going around and more fun than just a plain leprechaun hat coloring page! (And, don’t worry about how to draw a leprechaun hat. We have super simple instructions below!)
More Of My Favorite St. Patrick’s Day Crafts And Fun St. Patrick’s Day Activities For Kids
Need more ways to celebrate St Patrick’s Day? Check out more leprechaun craft easy to make and St Patrick’s Day projects for kids:
St Patrick’s Day Desserts: Shamrock Shaped Treats
St. Patrick’s Day Snacks: Pot-O-Gold Popcorn Bites
St Patrick’s Day for Kids Activities, Facts, Crafts and Lesson Plan Ideas
Leprechaun / Fairy Container Garden Instructions for Kids
Easy St. Patrick’s Day Toddler Fun Activities
Let’s get to the St Patricks Day craft! Here are the full directions for the St Patrick’s Day craft DIY leprechaun hat (aka: hat activity for preschoolers and up!). It’s even fun to go along with your leprechaun hunt kids activities!
How To Make St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Hats with Rainbow Hair
Fun Leprechaun Hats Idea For A Cute St Patrick’s Day Craft
What I love about this leprechaun hat construction paper craft is that you can make it with things you probably already have at home! (You don’t need a lot of special things for this St. Patrick’s Day hat for little kids!)
These are also great to pair with any hat leprechaun trap activities that you’re doing for Saint Patrick’s Day activities for kids (or even as a leprechaun hat beard craft to go with leprechaun hat ideas), a hats day for the holiday, and also as a leprechaun hat craft toddler activity.
You don’t really need a leprechaun hat craft template because it’s such an easy thing to cut on your own. Don’t worry about it being perfect! It’s a fun craft for kids of all ages, so it’s not hard!
Here’s how make leprechaun hat paper craft (how to make a leprechaun hat out of paper). You can download the leprechaun hat craft printable card below.
Leprechaun Hat Preschool Craft
Equipment
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Black marker
Ingredients
- White construction paper
- Black construction paper
- Red orange, yellow, green, blue and purple construction paper
- Green finger paint
- Gold glitter
Instructions
- Cut a top hat shape out of the white construction paper.
- Cut long strips, about 1-inch wide, out of black, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple construction paper.
- Cut a shamrock shape out of the yellow construction paper.
- Finger paint the hat shape with green finger paint. Set aside to dry.
- While the paint is drying on the hat, spread glue over the shamrock cutout. Sprinkle the gold glitter on the shamrock. Set aside to dry.
- For each red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple construction paper strips, fold them back and forth, accordion style.
- Once the paint has dried on the hat, flip the hat over (paint side down) and glue the edge of each red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple accordion strip onto the edge of the hat, so that most of it is hanging down to form the rainbow hair.
- Flip the hat back over to the painted side and glue the black strip of construction paper above the brim.
- Glue the glitter shamrock on the right side of the black strip.
- Write the child’s name on the hat with black marker.
Leprechaun Hat Craft For Preschoolers Craft and Book Pairing: St. Patrick’s Day Books for Kids
What do leprechauns do? They’re super silly, that’s what! At least that’s what we find out in That’s What Leprechauns Do by Eve Bunting, which is a cute book to go with our cute craft!
The leprechauns in the book dig up their pot of gold in order to bury it at the end of the rainbow. However, as the three little ones hurry along, they stop to perform some funny and mischievous pranks along the way.
Will the leprechauns make it in time to bury the gold before the rainbow disappears? Better read it to find out!
Such a fun book to pair with paper leprechaun hat craft.
Also try these children’s St. Patrick’s Day books / leprechaun books to go with the preschool leprechaun hat craft:
Let us know if you have more favorite St Patrick’s Day children’s books that would pair well with St. Patrick’s Day crafts!
DO THIS ST. PATRICK’S DAY ACTIVITY NEXT AFTER THE LEPRECHAUN HAT CRAFT FOR KIDS: EDIBLE LEPRECHAUN HAT SNACKS (Fun St. Patrick’s Day craft ideas that you can eat!)
Let us know how your easy St. Patrick’s Day crafts turn out!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
