Continuing with our week of guest posters here at SBLC, today I am thrilled to bring you Cheri from It’s So Very Cheri.
She is going to take you through a fun St. Patrick’s Day kids craft. Thank you for being here, Cheri!
Hey It’s Cheri from Its So Very Cheri.
I am honored to be here today. I think the world of Johnnie and consider her to be a wonderful blog friend.
Although we have never meet–at least not yet–in person–there are just some people that you develop a wonderful bond with and Johnnie is one of those gals.
- I love to create things and decorate.
- I have 4 kiddos and home school them.
- My hubby is in school.
- I share lots of craft projects and love beach themed projects.
- My birthday is on Christmas Day and I love everything about Christmas.
- I love typography projects.
I wanted to created a fun
St. Patrick’s Day
craft for the kids.
They get excited about every holiday. I thought something SPRINGY would be fun.
2 sheets of card stock paper
striped green paper
polka dot green paper
scissors
glue gun
a 4 leaf clover image
pencil
styrofoam
ribbon
clothes pins
DIRECTIONS:
I took my 2 sheets of paper and folded the paper so I could create a box. This requires you to fold it into thirds on all sides.
{Using 2 pieces gives the finished box extra durability.}
You need to cut the 4 corner pieces so you can fold them in.
I used some clothes pins to hold my folded in pieces while I glued them in place.
{If you do not own a glue gun you could carefully tape your piece or staple them.}
I cut 4 rectangle pieces that were the length of each side of the box and then used my scissors to snip up part way so I could create “grass”.
I did not have a cube of styrofoam so I used some of my sheets and broke them and stacked them in my paper box. I did not glue it in place–just set them in there.
I then cut out 4 leaf clovers out of my polka dot paper. I only cut 4 leaf clovers for my bigger suckers.
I used Blow pops. I filled in with smaller suckers-I got a bag of AIR HEAD suckers. They had light green and a dark green sucker so I used both. I poked the suckers through the middle of the 4 leaf clover and pushed the paper up around it a little. Then I pushed them into the styrofoam.
I finished it off with a piece of bright green gross grain ribbon around the top of my box.
Do your kids have a St. Patrick’s Day party coming up?
Thank you so much for having me today.
I hope you will come over and check out my other projects and recipes and if you like what you see I hope you will follow along.
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