Shamrock hairpin

St Patrick's Day is a fun day to celebrate all things Irish. So go green with this simple shamrock hairpin – a simple way for your child to dress up for March 17. All you need is a bobby pin, a button and some green felt – this FREE template will make it even easier.

What you need:

• small shamrock printable template
• medium shamrock printable template
• a bobby pin
• a green button
• light green felt
• dark green felt
• scissors
• hot glue gun
• 2 x A4 pieces of white card stock
• needle and thread

Number of players:

Activity:

Print out the small shamrock printable template and the medium shamrock template; cut out one small and one medium shamrock.

Now use the shamrock shapes as a guide to make one small dark green shamrock and one medium lighter-coloured green shamrock.

Lay the small shamrock on top of the larger one. Place the button on top. Sew the button to both layers of felt. 

Use a dab of hot glue to attach the shamrock decoration to a bobby pin.

And there you go – it's easy being green!

• Thanks to our sister company Kidspot Australia for creating the instructional video and printable templates.