Make a cute and easy Leprechaun paper craft with this free leprechaun template printable. Print at home and easy to use. A fun leprechaun craft is a great activity for kids of all ages!
On to St. Patrick’s Day crafts today! If you are a fan of St. Patrick’s Day and love to set out a leprechaun trap or even watch crazy videos of what people do on social media, then this one is for you!
A fun way to use him would be as a prop in a trap. Leave a few gold coins around and the kids will love it!
No fancy cutting machines for this cute leprechaun craft, just a few pieces of construction paper or card stock, glue, and scissors.
This would be a great craft for students to put together to work on eye hand coordination and fine motor skills with all the small scissor cuts that need to be made.
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How to Use Leprechaun Template Printable
This tutorial uses all paper pieces, but you could definitely add your own flare! Use googly eyes to make the leprechaun more animate, mini pom poms as the buttons, or glitter glue.
Everyone can glue their own leprechaun craft onto paper bags to make puppets or to use as treat bags at a St. Patrick's Day party!
Tools
- Pencil
- Craft glue or glue stick
- Sharpie or gel pen
- Pair of Scissors
- Free printable leprechaun template - see below the directions
Instructions
- Download and print out the leprechaun template printable from the bottom of the post on regular copy paper. Cut each piece of the template out with scissors. Place the templates on the corresponding colored paper and trace the shapes out with a pencil. Cut the pieces out with scissors.
- Start by putting together the leprechaun's hat (the two shapes on the top left corner of the template). Glue the rectangle cut out along the longer side of the shape that looks like a trapezoid. To put the hat belt together, cut slits along both sides of the small square (yellow buckle) and insert the black band strip through the slits.
- Glue the hat belt down the middle of the hat. Cut off the extra sides of the belt if necessary.
- Now on to the leprechaun head. Attach the two triangle-shaped cutouts (ears) on both sides of the big round head cutout.
- Glue the nose (single round cutout), eyes (2 small round pieces), and eyebrows (two small rectangles) on the head pattern.
- Attach the head pattern on the beard shape (oval).
- The next step is to attach the hat pattern on the top side of the leprechaun head.
- Now move to the leprechaun's shirt. Attach the two big rectangle cutouts to each side of the big square (shirt).
- Glue the four small round cutouts AKA buttons on the bottom of the shirt pattern (below the triangles).
- Next attach the shoe cutouts to the leg cutouts and the hand pieces to the sleeve cutouts.
- Starting to look like a little leprechaun, right?? Now attach the head pattern on the top side of the shirt.
- Then attach the leg patterns on the bottom side of the shirt. Note: if you want the arms and legs to move you could always use mini brads or fasteners to attach them.
- The final step is to attach the arm patterns to each side of the shirt.
- I hope your mischievous leprechaun doesn't get into too much trouble!
Notes
The leprechaun template printable download link is at the bottom of the post.
If you are in need of more St. Patrick’s Day activities to use at home or in the classroom, make sure to grab our St. Patrick’s Day color by number sheets, St. Patrick’s Day activity sheets, and St. Patrick’s Day word search printables.
Or for more fun ideas Made with Happy has some great leprechaun coloring pages and MeaninfulMama has the perfect way to make a cute leprechaun hat craft.
Leprechaun Template Printable
As with all my free printables, these are for personal use only! Not for commercial use. Please no selling or redistributing of PDF files. Thank you!
Simply click the download button below and the free template PDF file should automatically download. Print the free printable template out on any home or school computer.
Thanks so much for stopping by and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Good luck in finding all those pots of gold, lol!
