Clover Card

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a rainbow card filled with three dimensional four leaf clovers! A beautiful watercolor rainbow and a collage of torn blue tissue paper will build up your child’s crafting skills in this project. Present this DIY card to anyone who wants a bit of luck, and they’ll be sure to love it.

What You Need:

• Watercolor paper
• Tissue paper in blue and green
• Cotton balls
• Metallic pipe cleaners
• Green oil pastels
• Pencil
• Scissors
• White glue
• Glue stick
• Watercolor paint
• Paintbrush

What You Do:

1. Have your child fold a sheet of watercolor paper in half to make the base of the card.
2. Draw two diagonal lines across the front of the card to create a section for the rainbow.
3. Now have your child paint in the rainbow with bright pastels, making sure to wash the brush between colors.
4. Next, tear up some of the blue tissue paper and glue them to the top part of the card, to create the sky. Use layers to create a cool texture!
5. Color in the grass with oil pastels by creating strong vertical strokes to make a “grassy” texture.
6. Cut four pieces of metallic pipe cleaners into different lengths.
7. Place a few layers of green tissue paper on top of each other, and draw a few four leaf clovers on the top layer. Cut them out, and place some glue in between each layer to keep them together.
8. Glue the back of each clover to a pipe cleaner. Repeat this to make four clovers.
9. Glue the clover stems to the bottom part of the card. Make sure you don't glue the top part down so they can bend outward for a 3D effect!
10. Finish off your lucky card by pulling apart some cotton balls and gluing them into the sky for clouds.
11. Write a lucky wish inside the card and give it to someone you love!