St. Patrick’s Day Handprint Art

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with ready-to-print St. Patrick’s Day Handprint Art templates! Get all 7 free designs sent to you. The best part about these printables is they work for kids of all ages, so you can easily do this craft with all of your kids, no matter their hand size.

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These designs make perfect decorations for St. Patrick’s Day when hung around the house. Or fold them up and mail them to family and friends as a cute keepsake!

Supplies Needed:

• St. Patrick’s Day Handprint Art – get the free printables sent to you at the bottom of this post!

• Non-Toxic Tempera Paint – in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple

• Paintbrushes – medium and fine

How to Make St. Patrick’s Day Handprint Art

1. Set up your space.

• Choose the printable designs that you’d like to use and print them on white paper or white cardstock. Cardstock is thicker and will be more durable.
• Round up your paint colors and brushes – we used 2 shades of green, along with red, orange, yellow, blue and purple.
• Fill a large dish with warm soapy water and bring it to your workstation along with some clean rags, towels, baby wipes, and paper towels to make clean-up as easy as possible.

2. Stamp the handprints.

Apply non-toxic tempera paint onto your child’s palm and guide them in stamping it onto the page. All of the designs use handprints and fingerprints.

The simplest designs use just a handprint, like the shamrock, clover wreath, horseshoe, and “lucky” designs.

2. Make the leprechaun beard.

For the leprechaun printable, you’ll first stamp one orange handprint onto his chin and then wash your child’s hand. Reapply orange paint, but to their other hand this time, and stamp again.

3. Make the rainbow handprint.

For this handprint, paint each finger a different rainbow color, like the below.

Guide their hand to the page and help them stamp their hand down to make a print, doing your best to place it next to the pot of gold.

4. Make the fingerprint shamrocks.

Apply green non-toxic tempera paint onto your child’s pointer finger. Guide them in stamping fingerprints in groupings of 3 to form shamrocks. We found we liked to reapply paint every 2-3 fingerprints, but adjust this as needed!

You can also use a green ink pad.

Use a small paintbrush to paint little stems below the groupings of leaves.

Once all of the paint has dried, your handprint art is complete! Frame it or add it to your fridge for some festive St Patrick’s Day decoration.

Don’t forget to write your child’s name and the date on each page!

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