Make this simple resist art shamrock craft with your kids today. It is a perfect St. Patrick’s Day art project for kids.
A simple St. Patrick’s Day craft using our free shamrock template.
We just finished making the festive paper plate shamrock wreaths, and we had several shamrocks leftover. I spent a couple of days thinking about what to make with the leftover shamrocks.
We decided to use the shamrocks to make shamrock resist art. It is a simple St. Patrick’s Day art project for kids.
Resist art just means that you resist the paint. Some people also refer to it as positive and negative space in art. In this shamrock craft, we used paper to resist the paint.
As an added bonus, when we were finished making this craft, we now have rainbow shamrocks to hang up and decorate the house for St. Patrick’s Day.
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Resist Art Shamrock Supplies
- Shamrock template
- Paper
- Paint
- Paintbrush
- Painter’s tape
How To Make Resist Art Shamrocks
Please watch the video tutorial below on how to make resist art shamrocks.
First, you will need to print a free shamrock template. We used different sizes of shamrocks for our project.
Cut out the shamrock template.
Then use painter’s tape to tape the shamrock to paper (roll the painter’s tape to put the tape on the back of the shamrock). We used light green construction paper.
Next, paint around your shamrocks. Be careful, you don’t want to get paint underneath the shamrock. We painted a rainbow pattern around our shamrocks.
Carefully remove your shamrocks.
I hope you enjoy making this resist art shamrock craft with your kids.
Ways To Modify This Craft
Instead of using paint, you can use any coloring medium that you would like. You can use crayons or markers to color around the shamrocks. Colored pastels and chalk will also work.
You can use any color of paper you want. You could even use white.
Other Shamrock Crafts You May Like
You can use these free shamrock templates to make your resist art shamrock.
We used the leftover shamrocks from this paper plate wreath craft to make the shamrock resist art craft.
This shamrock suncatcher makes a beautiful St. Patrick’s Day window decoration.
