Popsicle Stick Leprechauns

Learn to make popsicle stick leprechauns for a enjoyable and straightforward St. Patrick’s Day craft.

When you’re in search of a St. Patrick’s Day craft, I’ve bought an excellent enjoyable concept for you. Let’s make popsicle stick leprechauns! At Christmas time, I made popsicle stick nutcrackers and so they had been simply so darn cute that I believed I’d strive making leprechauns too. And I love how they turned out. These little males have a lot persona and had been so enjoyable to make. Let me present you how one can make your individual popsicle stick leprechauns.

Supplies Wanted

• 9 Small Craft Sticks (2.5 inches lengthy)
• Two Regular Craft Sticks (4.5 inches lengthy)
• Scorching Glue + Glue Sticks
• Craft Paint (two shades of inexperienced, black and orange/crimson)
• Small Paint Brushes
• Paint Pens (I used white, gold and black)

Directions

Step 1: Glue the craft sticks collectively within the order proven on this photograph:

You possibly can mess around just a little bit with proportion right here. Every of the leprechauns I made are barely totally different. One has actually lengthy legs and one has actually brief ones. It’s form of enjoyable to present every leprechaun his personal persona.

Step 2: The stick used for the hat brim appears to be like just a little too massive for my part, so I lower it down a bit with a pointy pair of scissors.

Step 3: Paint the legs and heart stick of the chest one shade of inexperienced. Paint the arms and jacket space the opposite shade of inexperienced, leaving the fingers wooden coloration. Paint the hat inexperienced. Add orange hair and and orange beard (and bushy eyebrows… non-obligatory, however darling). Paint the underside of the lengthy popsicle sticks black in order that they seem like boots.

Step 4: As soon as the paint is dry, use Sharpie markers, paint pens and coloured pencils so as to add a face and all the enjoyable clothes particulars like buttons and buckles and shoelaces, and many others.

And that’s all it takes to make your individual cute little leprechauns out of picket craft sticks. Such an ideal craft for St. Patrick’s Day, don’t you suppose?

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