Hi friends,
It’s been so nice and beautiful here in California, we couldn’t help but tap into our natural side. Today we’re bringing you a little green with our fun, textured leprechaun, made with leaves and pipe cleaners. This activity can be easily colored in if you prefer to keep it simple or if you’d like to get the full effect of the textures, add artificial leaves, yarn, and pipe cleaners. You could even go out to your yard or a nearby park, much like this Earth Day activity, to collect some leaves and other natural materials to complete this. Check out our leafy leprechaun below.
Click on photos for a closer look
What You'll Need
Leprechaun Sheet
Artificial Leaves
Scissors
Color Pencils/Crayons
Pipe Cleaners
Glue
Optional: Yarn, Hot Glue, Natural Materials
The Steps
You may start with the coloring first or the gluing, we started on the leaves first.
Cut your artificial greenery/leaves or use natural items.
Use glue to add your greenery to the hat.
Color the band, buckle, clover, hat rim, and face.
If you’d like to add material to your beard, skip coloring that part. Move on to step 4.
4. Cut your pipe cleaners, yarn, or other material to glue to the beard. Hot glue worked the best here.
5. Color the clovers at the bottom of the page and/or glue leaves there too.
That’s it!
Naomi colored the ears and nose the same color as the face- not visible online. She filled in the gaps at the top of the hat with lime color pencil and colored in the beard.
I added all leaves to the hat, a few at the bottom, and filled in the beard with orange pipe cleaners and mustard yellow yarn. I also darkened the nose and ears.
I can’t beleaf how cute these came out = )
Happy crafting,
Amanda and Naomi
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