The Best St. Patrick’s Day Craft: Leprechaun Lookers
Spend your St. Patrick’s Day searching for Leprechauns and pots of gold with these Leprechaun Lookers. These DIY Leprechaun binoculars aren’t just any regular binocular – they have special magic to find those sneaky little leprechauns. Assemble your leprechaun lookers and go out and find a leprechaun today!
This DIY St. Patrick’s Day craft is perfect for classrooms and homes. It uses simple materials that are easy to personalize, ensuring each leprechaun looker is entirely unique. It is a fun craft that will keep kids busy long after the binoculars are complete.
How this St. Patrick’s Day Craft Builds Developmental Skills
Creating Leprechaun Lookers aren’t just for finding leprechauns; it supports major developmental skills that are essential to everyday life.
Fine Motor Skills: Cutting and gluing help to strengthen the muscles in fingers and hands that support everyday tasks, such as pre-writing and writing skills, buttoning clothes, and picking up small objects.
Creative Development: These leprechaun lookers have the option of an open-ended design. Kids can get creative and decorate their binoculars with shamrocks, leprechauns, rainbows, or pots of gold. Giving kids the option of designing their own binoculars allows the process to be more exciting and beneficial.
Language Skills: The crafting process and final craft can support language skills. Kids can narrate how they are decorating their leprechaun lookers and the reason behind it. Do the shamrocks attract leprechauns? Do the rainbows give the binoculars their “special magic?” After the binoculars are finished, encourage kids to share what they see to support their language development.
Materials to make your St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun Lookers
To create these Leprechaun Lookers grab these common crafting supplies from around the house.
Materials:
- 2 toilet paper rolls
- Green construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Green pipe cleaners
- Gold glitter
- Dark green markers
How to Create Your Very Own Leprechaun Lookers:
Step 1: Mark and cut the green construction paper to height of the toilet paper rolls.
Step 2: Glue the toilet paper rolls together. If using school glue, give it time to dry before moving on to step 3. If using a hot glue gun, ensure parent supervision throughout the entire craft until the hot glue gun is cooled off and put away.
Step 3: Wrap and glue the piece of green construction paper around the toilet paper rolls.
Step 4: Glue a green pipe cleaner around the top and bottom of the toilet paper rolls, leaving a small space around the edge. If using school glue, ensure time for it to dry.
The next steps are just a design suggestion. Feel free to decorate your leprechaun lookers in any way you want!
Step 5: Glue green pom poms around the binoculars. I choose to only glue them to the top side so that the binoculars can lie flat on the table.
Step 6: Use a dark green marker to add polka dots on the green construction paper.
Step 7: Use the school glue to draw a shamrock in the center of the toilet paper rolls. Move on to step 8 quickly before the glue dries.
Step 8: Use the glue to draw small polka dots around the toilet paper rolls. Move on to step 9 quickly before the glue dries.
Step 9: Sprinkle gold glitter on the shamrock glue and polka dots. Gently tap the leprechaun lookers over a sheet of paper to remove the excess glitter. You can dump the excess glitter back into the jar to prevent waste.
Step 10: Allow the glue on the leprechaun lookers to dry completely before using them.
Variations for your leprechaun lookers
Make this craft unique by trying some of these fun variations:
Decorations: As stated above in the instructions, kids can decorate their leprechaun lookers any way they want to. Try swapping out the green construction paper for white, allowing kids to use easier materials, like crayons and markers, to design their binoculars. Cut the white construction paper to the size of toilet paper rolls and allow kids to color the construction paper before gluing it. Kids can also add a string or yarn to the binoculars to make it easier to carry them around.
Uses: These leprechaun lookers can be used for more than finding leprechauns. Use them to find four leaf clovers in the grass or for a St. Patrick’s Day scavenger hunt.
Combine Activities: These leprechaun binoculars can be combined with other activities to elevate your St. Patrick’s Day fun! Make a leprechaun trap, add in some leprechaun bait, and use your binoculars to observe from far away.
Classroom and Home Uses for These Leprechaun Lookers
These DIY leprechaun lookers pair perfectly with any lesson on St. Patrick’s Day. In classrooms, kids can either design their own leprechaun lookers or work as a team, building collaboration and language skills. Kids can then travel through the school and playground (with teacher supervision) to find leprechauns. At home, kids can traverse the house, yard, and community to spot leprechauns.
A DIY St. Patrick’s Day Craft to Bring Joy To The Holiday
These homemade leprechaun lookers are a simple DIY craft that can make a some-what not kid-friendly holiday fun and exciting. These leprechaun binoculars focus on creativity and imagination, making it an accessible craft to all. While kids might not find a leprechaun, the joy and magic of looking is worth more than gold.
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