St Patrick's Day Handprint Craft with Poem

Use our original four-leaf clover handprint poem and printable art template to make this lucky four-leaf clover craft with your kids!

Make Saint Patrick’s day handprint crafts at home or in the classroom with our printable four-leaf clover template. Handprint arts and crafts make a great gift idea for mom, dad, or grandparents. Make this lucky handprint craft to share with parents or someone you love on St. Patrick’s Day!

clover handprint craft with printable art template

Handprint Saint Patrick’s Day Crafts for Kids

My daughter and I created a shamrock handprint poem with a printable art template for my dad for Saint Patrick’s day, and we decided to make a lucky four-leaf clover handprint poem and printable art template, too!

Is there someone in your life that you can never figure out what to gift them? For me, that person is my father. He never needs or wants anything! Fortunately, he adores his only granddaughter, he is an Irishman named Patrick, and his favorite color happens to be green–surprise, surprise!

Yup, this means that my daughter and I have finally designed the perfect handmade gifts for him. And my brother, of course. He, too, is an Irishman named Patrick. And my father wanted me to share our original shamrock handprint poem and 4-leaf clover handprint poem with you. So, we made a printable handprint template with a sweet St. Patrick’s Day poem to go with it.

And I have updated this post since it was first published in March of 2018 to include even more printable handprint craft templates for St. Patrick’s Day. Use any of our handy dandy art and craft templates to make a pain handprint shamrock on any piece of paper or canvas, or use our printable Saint Patrick’s day handprint template with a poem to make your four-leaf clover handprint crafts.

Four Leaf Clover Handprint Craft Supplies

St. Patrick’s Day Handprint Craft with Poem

How to Make Handprint Crafts for Saint Patrick’s Day

There are a few different ways you can choose to make cute four-leaf clover handprint crafts. I created a printable four-leaf clover art template with St. Patrick’s Day poem that you can use to make handprint crafts. Or, you can choose to make a handprint clover craft directly onto a square canvas.

If you choose to use our four-leaf clover art template, we have provided several fun options–and I made more you can use than those shown in the photographs since this post was first published. Either create your handprint art clover inside the four-lobed leaves of the four-leaf clover. Or make the four-leaf clover with your hands on the blank page with the poem. Both printable St. Patrick’s Day art template options also give the choice of the four-leaf clover handprint poem printed at the top or the bottom of the page.

handprint clover craft for Saint Patrick's Day.

Follow the simple step-by-step instructions below to create this cute, easy four-leaf clover handprint craft. Or, use our shamrock handprint art template and poem to make a shamrock craft instead! And, while you are at it, teach children the difference between a shamrock and a clover, and find even more Saint Patrick’s day art and craft ideas on this fantastic list of ideas

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Step 1 – Print four-leaf clover art template (optional) and gather handprint clover craft supplies

Print out our St Patrick’s Day craft template onto heavy cardstock, or create your clover handprint craft directly onto a piece of cardstock or a square canvas.

Step 2 – Paint one hand or both hands with green paint

Use a flat wash paintbrush to paint your child’s hands or hands with green paint. In other words, use one hand to create the four-leaf clover leaves or use both!

My daughter and I found it easy and less messy to use one hand and spin the paper around to create multiple leaves. However, it might also be fun to have both hands represented in your shamrock handprint art.

Have a look at an example of a four-leaf clover handprint craft using both hands in Shamrock & Clover Arts and Crafts.

Step 3 – Stamp painted hand or hands to create handprint clover craft

Press the painted hand down on the handprint clover craft template or directly onto a square canvas to create four-leaf clover handprint art.

Make a single handprint in the center of a 4-leaf clover, fill each of the 4-lobed leaves with a handprint inside the printable template, or make each of the four leaves of the four-leaf clover with only your hands.

Since my daughter is getting older and her hand is getting bigger, we had to overlap her palms to fit them into the 4-leaf clover handprint art template.

handprint clover craft art template with poem

If you have a child with a smaller hand, you can create the handprint clover craft to make the palms more visible. You can see a fantastic example in Saint Patricks Day Arts and Crafts.

Next, my daughter and I will be creating a four-leaf clover handprint craft with acrylic paint on a square canvas. That way, we will have a little bit more room to fit her handprints to make a 4-leaf clover.

Four Leaf Clover Handprint Poem

We made up a cute little poem with this handprint clover craft. Send it to someone you love for Saint Patrick’s Day!

Click on the link to download and print, or use an extra-fine tip paint pen to write it by hand onto a Saint Patrick’s Day card or art canvas.

Please Note: This is an original poem by Nell Regan K., the founder of Rhythms of Play, and is copyright protected. It is not for commercial use or resale but personal use only–thank you.

These aren’t just handprints, as you can plainly see.
I made a four-leaf clover to remind you of me.
With my little green handprints, I’m sending love and luck your way.
As a special blessing from me to you on Saint Patrick’s Day!
~Nell Regan K

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Saint Patrick’s Day Handprint Craft for Kids

Send this four-leaf clover handprint poem as a gift to mom, dad, or the grandparents for Saint Patrick’s day. A handprint clover craft and gift idea anyone would treasure!

Learn more about Rhythms of Play HERE!

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