Use our printable shamrock handprint art templates to make shamrock handprint art crafts with toddlers, preschoolers, kindergardeners, and school-aged kids for Saint Patrick’s Day.
Shamrock handprint art makes a great gift idea for friends and family on St. Patrick’s Day! Use our shamrock handprint art template with our original handprint shamrock poem to make any of these cute Saint Patrick’s Day handprint crafts with your children at home or in the classroom. To make it easy, we have provided step-by-step directions, examples, and lots of photographs of different ways to make a handprint shamrock. Scroll up and down to see them all!
We have updated this post since its first publication in March of 2018 to include even more printable templates that you can use to make handprint shamrock arts and crafts with the kids. Download and print your favorite today! You might also enjoy this list of Saint Patrick’s Day Arts and Crafts for kids.
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Easy Shamrock Handprint Arts and Crafts for Kids
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 shamrock gift for him. (see what I did there?) And, my brother, of course. He, too, is an Irishman named Patrick. Yes, really!
My father thought our shamrock handprint poem was so good–he told me to share it with you as a shamrock art template that you can download and print. Isn’t that fantastic!? We thought so too. 😉 Now you too can make this cute handprint shamrock craft, complete with our original shamrock handprint poem template, for someone you love this Saint Patrick’s Day!
Shamrock Handprint Art Template with PoemHandprint Shamrock Art Supplies
Gather the supplies below to make handprint shamrock crafts:
- Shamrock handprint art template with shamrock handprint poem (Contains a total of six different pages to choose from to make your own shamrock handprint crafts)
- Cardstock or square art canvas
- Green tempera or green acrylic paint
- Paintbrush
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How to Make a Handprint Shamrock
There are a few different ways you can choose to create shamrock handprint art. We have provided several printable shamrock templates with our original handprint poem that you can use to create a handprint shamrock, or you can make a handprint shamrock directly onto a square canvas or piece of cardstock, as shown below.
If you choose to use our shamrock art template, we have provided a total of six options that you can download and print to make Saint Patrick’s Day crafts. Create your handprint art shamrock inside the black or green shamrock outline, or complete the shamrock shape with your hands on the blank shamrock art templates.
Each of the printable art templates also have the option of the shamrock handprint poem printed at the top or the bottom of the page. Choose your favorite shamrock art template to download and print, and use it to make Saint Patrick’s day arts and crafts at home or in the classroom.
Or, make a lucky 4-leaf clover with our four-leaf clover handprint art template and poem! And, while you’re at it, make sure you teach children the difference between a shamrock and a clover to make it even more fun. You can find the answer in this list of Saint Patrick’s Day art and craft ideas.
Shamrock Handprint Art Tutorial
Follow the simple step-by-step instructions below to create a handprint shamrock with our printable poem for Saint Patrick’s Day. And, if you would prefer to make your art directly onto a square canvas, we have provided our shamrock handprint poem at the bottom of this post for you to copy onto the canvas.
Or, feel free to write the handprint shamrock poem in a blank Saint Patrick’s day greeting card that goes with it to complete the gift. (Please note: the original poem by Nell Regan K., and art templates, are for personal use only. They are copyright protected and are not for commercial use–thank you!)
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Step 1 – Print shamrock art template (optional) and gather shamrock handprint craft supplies
- First, print your favorite shamrock art template onto heavy cardstock.
- Alternatively you can create your Saint Patrick’s Day art directly onto heavyweight cardstock (as shown above) 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 hand, or hands, with green tempera paint or green acrylic paint. In other words, use one hand to create the leaves of the shamrock or both–you choose!
- My daughter and I found it really 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 art.
Step 3 – STamp Hands to Create handprint shamrock art
- Gently press and lift the painted hand (or hands) down on the handprint shamrock template, or directly onto a square canvas, to create handprint shamrock art.
- Either, make a single handprint in the center of a shamrock, fill each of the 3-lobed leaves of the black or green shamrock outline with a handprint, or make each shamrock with only handprints on the blank templates with the poem at the top or the bottom.
- Since my daughter is getting older and her hand is getting bigger, we had to overlap her palms a bit more to create the shamrock art on regular-sized paper. If you have a child with a smaller hand, you can create the handprint art shamrock to make the palms are more visible. Or, of course, you can use a larger canvas.
- Scroll up and down to see all of our examples from a few years ago. (Please note: we have updated our shamrock art printable templates so they look a bit different now.)
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Saint Patrick’s Day Shamrock Handprint Poem
I wrote a cute little Saint Patrick’s day shamrock handprint poem to go with this shamrock handprint art project. 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 an art canvas with a handprint shamrock.
I have written two slightly different versions of the shamrock handprint poem, depending on how you choose to make the shamrock handprint art to go with it.
Please Note: These shamrock handprint poems by Nell Regan K. (founder of Rhythms of Play) are Copyright protected, and are for personal use only–thank you!)
Shamrock Handprint Poem to use with 3 Handprints
Nell Regan K.
Shamrock Handprint Poem to use with a Single Handprint
~Nell Regan K.
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Handprint Shamrock Craft for Kids
Send this shamrock handprint poem with your children’s handprint art as a gift to mom, dad, or the grandparents for Saint Patrick’s day this year!
And, don’t forget to have a look at this HUGE list of Saint Patrick’s day art and craft ideas!
Learn more about Rhythms of Play HERE!
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