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This fun S Patrick's Day Art Project is a great art project for preschoolers and those kids in the lower grades of elementary. We love this finger-painting rainbow art project!
I have only mentioned it a few times over the years, which is just kind of silly, but did you all know that I teach art at my kid's school?
I will start by saying, I AM NOT A TEACHER. That takes a certain kind of person that I am not. I do however go into the class 1-2 times a month and teach each of my children's classes. The art program at my children's school is volunteer-based. It has a couple of different curricula as well as all the art supplies.
There are weeks when I use what is given and all is good. There are few pockets of times throughout the year when there aren't any lessons that fit and that is when we make up our lessons. For this week's lesson in March, I knew we wanted to do something rainbow (of course) and something on St. Patrick's Day. We came up with this super cute Pot of Gold St. Patrick's Day Rainbow Art.
We highlighted this Rainbow Craft along with some other fun kid's crafts in our March Crafts along with our 101+ Easy Craft Ideas for kids.
Do not miss our St.Patrick's Day Coloring Pages and our St. Patrick’s Day Crafts for Kids full of paper shamrocks, lucky pots of gold, and all kinds of rainbow arts crafts.
Supplies Need for this Easy St. Patricks Day Art Idea
- White Sulphite Paper - We used 18x12
- Black Construction Paper - They only need a ¼ of a sheet
- Tempura Paint - Rainbow colors, including gold if you have it.
- Paint Brushes
- Scissors
Making this Kids Rainbow Art
Kids rainbow art is my favorite. There are so many variations to this project. What I found is that if you direct the children one way, then they will go four different ways anyway.
We started out drawing a pot of gold. I had them use a pencil and draw the pot of gold like a fishbowl on a black piece of paper. I showed them if they drew an oval at the top of the fishbowl, it would give it a "Pot of Gold" look for this super fun St. Patrick's Day rainbow art project.
We then had them cut out the pot of gold and glue it to the corner of their piece of paper. Then we squeezed a little of each color of the rainbow onto a paper plate and encouraged them to start with red or magenta at the top of the rainbow.I encouraged the students to be more abstract with their strokes as the colors blended together like rainbows in the sky. We had students who wanted the clean strokes and those who loved the abstract of it.
St Patrick's Day Crafts for Toddlers
Two added instructions were to use the gold paint on the pot of gold. Either on top of the pot of gold or coming out.
I then encouraged the students to create clovers around the outside of their rainbow. They could try and paint small circles using their brush, or dip their finger in the green paint and create four-leaf clovers with their finger. Messy is always fun! This St. Patrick's Day crafts for toddlers or preschoolers is a great project to express their creativity.
I love kids' rainbow art and any kid's art for that matter because every single one of these projects turned out completely different.
They had straight lines, they had messy lines, they had all different sizes of pots of gold and I just loved letting them create their own art, and it was so much fun. I highly recommend kids rainbow art activities for your next project and see what your children come up with.
Have some red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, gray, and black fun!
Check out these other Rainbow Activities!
Some other Easy Rainbow Crafts and St. Patrick’s Day Craft Projects You Might Enjoy
- Fun with friends and this color scavenger hunt for kids.
- We have Free Printable St. Patricks Coloring Pages that are filled with Leprechauns, Rainbows, and Pots of Gold.
- These St. Patricks Day Treats – Leprechaun Hat Cookies are all kinds of fun and a great to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day!
- Simple Rainbow Crafts For Kindergartners- fun tissue paper crafts are always fun and rainbows make for a great craft during St. Patrick's Day.
- Leprechaun Hat Craft– Fun felt craft project that is perfect for the preschoolers and toddlers. This leprechaun craft is a great St. Patrick's Day Crafts For kids
- St. Patrick’s Day Rainbow Art is great for little hands. I have made this project with both 1st graders and 2nd graders. Both grades had so much fun creating the art piece.
- Rainbow Holiday Garland - We love hanging this garland all year long. We have used it for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick's Day Art - Rainbow Art
Equipment
- Paint brushes
Ingredients
- White Sulphite Paper - We used 18x12
- Black Construction Paper - They only need a ¼ of a sheet
- Tempura Paint - Rainbow colors including gold if you have it.
Instructions
- We started out drawing a pot of gold. I had them use a pencil and draw the pot of gold like a fishbowl on a black piece of paper. I showed them if they drew an oval at the top of the fishbowl, it would give it a "Pot of Gold" look for this super fun St. Patrick's Day rainbow art project.
- We then had them cut out the pot of gold and glue it to the corner of their piece of paper.
- Then we squeezed a little of each color of the rainbow onto a paper plate and encouraged them to start with red or magenta at the top of the rainbow.I encouraged the students to be more abstract with their strokes as the colors blend together like rainbows in the sky. We had students that wanted the clean strokes and those that loved the abstract of it.
- Two added instructions were to use the gold paint on the pot of gold. Either on top of the pot of gold or coming out.
- I then encouraged the students to create clovers around the outside of their rainbow. They could try and paint small circles using their brush, or dip their finger in the green paint and create four-leaf clovers with their finger. Messy is always fun!
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