Prints O’ Green

Your little leprechauns will be leaping with joy when you set up this fun art center in your classroom! Cut a supply of nine-inch, white construction-paper squares. Write the directions below on an index card. Place the paper squares and student directions at a designated table in your classroom along with pencils, black markers, scissors, glue, rulers, black construction paper, and a green-ink stamp pad.

Student directions:

1.   Select a construction-paper square.

2.  Use a ruler and pencil to draw gird lines that divide the square into nine equal boxes.

3.  Trace over the gird lines with a black marker.

4.  Press your thumb or fingertip on the ink pad; then make one fingerprint in each of the nine boxes.

5. Use a black marker to turn each fingerprint into a leprechaun or a St. Patrick’s Day symbol.

6. Mount your completed designs on a ten-inch square of black construction paper.