Felt Rainbow with a Pot of Gold: A St. Patrick’s Day Craft Tutorial
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, or any day, with this fun Felt Rainbow with a Pot of Gold craft tutorial! This craft is perfect for teaching young children their colors and building their hand strength with various cutting.
This winter has us pretty down in the dumps here in Duluth, MN. Last week we got another 18 inches of snow piled high on top of the feet of accumulation we’re already struggling to navigate around. We could really use some color around here! What perfect timing for some rainbow crafts!
I’ve seen many construction paper rainbows out there so when I walked past this beautiful felt at Michaels it was screaming “buy me”.
Here’s what you’ll need:
• Felt in a rainbow of colors (construction paper will work as a substitute)
• Construction paper for the background and pot of gold (blue or white, green, black or brown)
• Scissors
• Glue (I used Elmer’s Early Learners glue stick and glue pen for the paper and coins and tacky fabric glue for the felt)
• Cotton balls
• Gold coins (I found these at the dollar store St. Patrick’s Day section. These could be substituted with gold or yellow construction paper or felt circles)
• Embellishments (stickers, crayons, markers etc)
You can get your supplies shipped to you from Amazon! Here is a handy list:
DIY Polyester Felt Nonwoven Fabric Sheet for Craft Work 40 Colors Squares 11.81×11.81inch
Pacon Tru-Ray Construction Paper, 9-Inches by 12-Inches, 50-Count, Assorted (103031)Aleenes Original Tacky Glue, 16-OunceElmer’s All Purpose School Glue Sticks, Clear, Washable, 4 Pack, 0.24-ounce sticksPlastic Gold CoinsSwisspers Cotton Balls Jumbo Plus Size, 70 Count100 ~ St. Patrick’s Day Foam Stickers ~ 1″ – 2 1/4″ ~Stanley Guppy 5-Inch Blunt Tip Kids Scissors, Assorted Colors – Pack ofCrayola Broad Point Washable Markers – Pack of 2 (58-7808-2Pack)
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Here’s what to do:
Cut your rainbow colored felt into strips about one inch wide. I cut three strips per color.
Cut strips into squares. This is a great chance to talk about shapes!
Roughly tear your green construction paper into a strip about 3-4″ tall so it fits the width of your background paper (ours is blue). Encourage kids to rip however it feels right to them. There’s no rules here.
Glue the back of your green strip to the blue background page. Now you have a grassy bottom to your scene.
Glue your colorful felt squares into a rainbow form.
*Tip: I tried using the Elmer’s glue pen and had some trouble with the felt. It stuck fine if the felt was placed only onto the paper. If it overlapped the other felt at all it didn’t stick once dried. I went back in with tacky fabric glue and reapplied the felt to the page and all was happy with the world again.
Apply cotton balls as clouds on each end of your rainbow. I used the Elmer’s Early Learners glue pen for these and it worked perfectly.
Apply glue to the back of your gold coins and place under your rainbow. (I found these at the dollar store.)
Cut out a black construction paper pot and glue it over the top of the gold coins so it looks like they’re peaking out of the top.
Add your own embellishments wherever you’d like. Nora added two dragonfly stickers and hand drawn flowers at the bottom. Be sure to let the felt dry well, hang and enjoy a bit of summer any time of the year!
If you want to share this fun craft on Pinterest (and we sure hope you do), here is pinnable image!
Disclosure: Although I am an Elmer’s Early Learners Ambassador, this post is not sponsored.
I love this! What a fun project! I have to pin this for my little one to make when he gets a bit older!
so beautiful! and great for teaching colors too!
how cute,my grandkids would love to make this too
This Rainbow Pot of Gold quilt is so cute, and a very good craft to make when it is so cold outside. I like the pretty colors and need to make this fun craft with my niece!!
This is so cute!! I love it and how easy it is to make. My daughter would love this craft! Thanks for the idea!
I like the bright colors for Spring (will it get here? soon? – not soon enough)
What a cute craft idea, I love it, will definitely go get some materials.
I absolutely love this!!!! I go to michaels all the time i’ve never seen the felt squares I guess I haven’t ventured in every part of the store Im on a mission now. Thank you for sharing this with us!
I will be nannying during St. Patty’s and this is a WONDERFUL idea! I might have to add it to my list to do with the kids.
What a cute and fun project! my girls love rainbow and love that it has a pot of gold too!
what an adorable crafts project! this will entertain the kids for a while! will be getting items tomorrow for the weekend!
Working with felt is always alot of fun. Its easy to cut and is so colorful!
How cute. I love the warmth the felt adds! Great idea. Thank you.
this would be so fun to do with my daughter. and perfect since she is learning her colors. thanks for the idea
What a cute craft! My grandson would have fun placing all of the pieces of felt down to make the rainbow.
What a cute craft! This would be perfect for my 3 year old preschooler. We can work on colors, fine motor skills and it is easy enough for him to do alone for the most part!
LOVE this! My daughter loves rainbows too so this will be a perfect St. Patrick’s Day Craft!!!
This looks like such a cute craft to do with the kids! I think it would be great to help teach with colors as well.
Thanks for sharing!
this would male a great gift..only use real gold..thanks
It’s fun to tie crafts to holidays. I like the bright colors for this.
This turned out so cute. My great iece just came home with a box full of craft things her mom sent her so we should give this a try. She would like doing this
My daughter loves crafts. She could sit all day drawing, coloring, building, etc… I’m going to show this to her and buy her some of the materials and watch to see what she creates!! I think she’ll absolutely love making crafts using felt instead of just paper and markers!!
A true little artist you have. (I love how serious she looks) I love felt and think it is fantastic when teaching children to sew. It would also be a great folklore fun learning project
What a great idea for St. Patrick’s day crafts 🙂
This looks like a super fun project to do with the kids. It looks great too!
What a cute little project. Thank you for sharing with us all.
I’m so sorry I missed this last month – my girls are rainbow crazy and would have loved this project! I suppose I can just lift the idea and have them make rainbows minus the pot of gold. Thanks for the great idea.
My little niece will be coming to visit for a few days and I need to come up with some crafts to do with her. I can just leave off the pot of gold and add more flowers! Voila! Super cute!
I love this! It came out super cute!
Love, love this! We are gearing up in green for St. Patrick’s day and celebrating it with a sweet shamrock shake! I would love for you to stop over and check out my shamrock shake recipe! 🙂
Cathy
Such a fun project! I have 2 and 5 year old boys and they would love this. Thanks for sharing!
This is pretty, and the kids looks like their little pros at it.
Hi, This really is a cool project! Your child worked on it?! How creative and colorful. Thank you for coming to the Inspire Me Monday Linky party and linking up with us this week.
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