Saint Patrick’s Day is an Irish holiday steeped in shamrocks, rainbows and pots of gold. You don’t have to be Irish to celebrate this event.
To celebrate many kids like to wear a green outfit to school. Nothing green in their closet? Try this simple craft at home to create a one-of-a-kind festive shirt.
Hearty Shamrock T-Shirt
Heart-shaped cookie cutter (2 1/2 inches wide)
Potato (cut in half)
Paring knife (help your children use the knife)
T-shirt (plain, white)
Green fabric paint
Paintbrush
Newspaper
Green permanent marker
1. Press cookie cutter into the flat side of the potato to make an impression.
2. Leave the cookie cutter in place. Help your child cut the potato away from the heart to create a stamp. Remove cookie cutter.
3. Place newspaper between the front and back of the T-shirt where your shamrock design will be.
4. Fold the sides and bottom of the T-shirt under the newspaper and flatten T-shirt.
5. Liberally paint the heart stamp with green paint.
6. To create a shamrock, press stamp onto the shirt, positioning three or four heart stamps that meet at the heart base applying paint to stamp after each impression.
7. Use paintbrush to draw the shamrock stem.
8. Use a green permanent marker to write across the shamrock print, “Kiss Me, I’m Irish.”
Denise Morrison Yearian is the former editor of two parenting magazines and the mother of three children and four grandchildren.
