Looking for a fun way to celebrate St. Patricks Day this year?
These darling windsocks are sure to be a hit at home or school!
Kids can choose to make their favorite design, or have fun making all three.
After making these colorful St. Patricks Day windsocks, hang them up from the ceiling on display.
Kids will love watching their creation dance and spin around the classroom or inside the home.
Read our how-to tutorials below for how to make each of the different windsocks.
Youll also find watching our step-by-step video tutorial inside this post to be helpful too before you get started.
Supplies need to make your Windsock Crafts:
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The rainbow crepe paper adds an extra fun touch to this windsock, dont you think?
Each child will need about 12-15 circles for their windsock.
Use a glue stick to glue several yellow circles along the middle line of the paper.
Add a few different layers of the circles so it looks like you a full pot of gold.
Cut out six strips of 18-inch rainbow crepe paper.
Glue them along the bottom one-third of your windsock.
Place two staples at the top and bottom of the windsock to join the ends together.
Create windsock handle
Cut a blue paper strip handle that is 1-inch by 11-inches.
Add glitter
Add some glue to each of the gold pieces with a glue stick.
Pour some gold glitter onto the glue to make your gold sparkly.
(You might need to add glue and glitter on one section at a time.)
Let your glue dry before handling the pot of gold windsock.
Dont forget to download ourleprechaun hat templateto make prep time extra easy for this craft.
Print out template, cut out hat pieces and glue them together
Download and print out theleprechaun hat template.
Use the template as a pattern to cut out the hat pieces from green and black cardstock paper.
Glue the black strip onto the green hat.
We used a mixture of light and dark green crepe paper.
Cut out orange crepe paper sections and create leprechaun hair
Turn your leprechaun windsock face up.
Glue eyes and nose
Glue a 1-inch peach pom-pom and two 1-inch googly eyes on your windsock.
Then use a black marker to draw a smile on your leprechaun.
Place two staples at the top and bottom of the windsock to join the ends together.
Then place a glittery shamrock sticker on the leprechaun hat.
Create windsock handle
Cut an orange paper strip handle that is 1-inch by 11-inches.
The sparkly stickers and rainbow crepe paper are the perfect touch for this colorful windsock.
Decorate cardstock paper with shamrock stickers
Decorate a sheet of green cardstock paper with shamrock stickers.
Cut out crepe paper strips and glue them along the bottom of cardstock paper
Turn your windsock face down.
Glue them along the bottom one-third of your shamrock windsock.
Place two staples at the top and bottom of the windsock to join the ends together.
Create windsock handle
Cut a green paper strip handle that is 1-inch by 11-inches.
