You'll rock this shamrock

My kids pointed out to me that there is a lack of clothes with green on them in our house. So, I threw together a very simple way to add a splash of green to their wardrobe this St. Patricks day.

What You'll Need:

- Green Felt

- Scissors

- Marker

-White embrodery floss

- Needle

- Aligator clip

- Ribbon (to use on the aligator clip)

The How To:

- First draw or trace a shamrock onto your felt

- Next cut it out

- Then thread your needle and stitch around the edge of your shamrock

- Then add your aligator clip to the back. Click HERE to see a post that shows how to do this.

Now you don't have to worry about getting pinched this St. Patricks day. Wear it on your shirt, in your hair, clipped onto a headband, etc.

The End of the Rainbow

Who says rainbows are just for Leprechaun's. Here's your own that you can wear.

What You'll Need:

- Embrodery string

- Scissors

- Safety pin

The How To:

- First pick out your first color.

- Then loosely wrap the string around your wrist. Wrap it around 7 times total. Then cut the string. This is the length you need to make the bracelet.

- Next you will need a second strand of the string the same length as the first one you measured.

- Put the strings together. You will then need to fold the strings in half. Make one side longer than the other. Example: If your total string measured 4 feet then when you fold it to make one side 3 feet long and the shorter end 1 foot long.

- Tie a loop where it is folded in half.

- Now it is time to do a spiral friendship bracelet. If you don't know how to make that here is a quick tutorial.

- Use a safety pin and pin the strings to something to hold them in place while you make your bracelet.

- For this example I used 2 different colors of string to make it easier to see how it is done. The blue string is the longer string and the yellow is the short end.

- 1. First keep the shorter end of the string straight down while doing this. And the longer string keep to the left of the shorter end. (Each end should have 2 strands)

- 2. Bring the longer strand over the short end.

- 3. Now bring the longer strand under the short one and then bring it up (as shown in the picture above).

- 4. Next you will need to pull the knot tight. * When pulling the knot tight be sure to pull the end of the long strand to the right.

- This will cause the knots to 'swirl' around the shorter strand.

-Keep doing this with the long strand until the bracelet fits around your wrist.


- Then do the same thing with the other colors of the rainbow.

-Tie all the strands together at each end of the bracelet and then you can tie it onto your wrist.

We had made a bigger one (we used twice the length of string used for the bracelet) and made it into a headband. My kids are excited to wear their rainbows on St. Patricks Day.

Shamrock Bell Necklace

Your Children will enjoy wearing this little bit of green on St. Patrick's Day!

What you'll need: 

- 3 Jingle Bells

- 1 Green Pipe Cleaner

-String

-Green Paint

-Paint the bells green.

-String the bells onto the pipe-cleaner.

-Place one end of the pipe-cleaner between two of the bells.  Then take the other end of the pipe-cleaner between the other two bells.

-Twist the pipe-cleaners together.

-Bend the ends of the pipe-cleaner up and into the center of the bells.

-Turn the bells over and lace the string/twin through the top bell and tie a double knot.

-Measure the length of the string/twin to fit over your head, and tie a knot at the end.

-It's done.