Monday, March 17, 2014

Dancing Leprechaun for St. Patrick's Day

Dancing Leprechaun
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day we made leprechaun traps.  In our visual journal page we made a replica of what our leprechaun would look like if we caught it in the wild.

Materials:
  • green watercolor paint
  • orange, black, yellow, green and tan colour construction paper
  • green tissue paper
  • brass brad
  • masking tape
  • sponge
  • google eyes
  • variety of St. Patrick's stickers and other dollar store items
  • scissors
  • glue
  • single hole puncher
  • pencil
  • pencil crayons
  • visual journal
Open up to an empty single page of your visual journal.  To create the background use masking tape to make the desired design.

Helpful Hints:
* Anything that you cover with masking tape will be white
* Make sure to smooth the tape down to the page so that the paint doesn't get under the tape
*tear the tape a little longer than the page for easy removal


Using green watercolour paint and a sponge dab the paint onto the paper in an up and down motion.


Wait for the paint to dry and take the masking tape off the paper.

Helpful Hint:
* Make sure to leave the texture of the sponge.  Be careful not to use to much paint.
* To add dimension to the page use a light and dark green


Using tan colour paper draw and cut the outline of the leprechaun doll.  Make sure to add everything from head to toe.


Using the green paper draw and cut out and outfit for your leprechaun.  Make sure that the clothes fit the body. 

Helpful Hint:
* If it is super difficult for the clothes to fit the body, just cut the body to match the clothes


Use the black, yellow and green paper to make accessories for the leprechaun (shoes, hats, belts)


Use the orange paper to make hair for the leprechaun.


Draw the outline of the face and stick on google eyes.


Using green paper cut out the shape of grass or a hill. Tear and glue small pieces of tissue paper onto the green paper to add texture.


Use a hole puncher make a hole in the center of the leprechauns belt.  Make another hole in the grass.  


Use a brass brad and connect the leprechauns belt to the grass.

Helpful Hint:
* Attach the brad loosely so there is lots of room for the leprechaun to move around




Glue the green grass to the visual journal.  Make sure that you do not glue the leprechaun to the journal.


Add as much or as little stickers as you would like.  



Put on some irish music and help your little leprechaun dance the irish jig!