DLTK's Craftsfor Kids
Leprechaun Paper Craft

This is a simple cut and paste paper craft that is easy for young children to make for Saint Patrick's Day.

Materials:

• a printer,
• a piece of paper,
• some crayons, paint, markers or pencil crayons,
• scissors, and
• glue.

Craft Instructions:

• Print out the craft template of choice.
• Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the template pieces. 
  • I usually roughly cut out all of the pieces and then let Kaitlyn (age 4) cut out the larger pieces (like the body, legs and hat) while I cut out the more fiddly pieces like the head and hands.
• To glue together:
  • Glue the legs onto the bottom of the large body piece
  • Glue the arms onto the body piece so the shoulders line up about at the top.
  • Glue the shamrock to the center of the body.
  • Glue the hands to the bottom of the arms, so they overlap the shamrock a bit
  • Glue the head onto the body
  • Glue the hat onto the head.

Craft Templates:

• Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
• Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers). 

You need all 4 templates to make one leprechaun

Template 1:  (color)   or   (B&W)

Template 2:  (color)   or   (B&W)

Template 3:  (color)   or   (B&W)

Template 4:  (color)   or   (B&W)

Printable version of these instructions