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!