5 Little Shamrocks

Okay, I know I'm a day late with this but here it is anyway. This is a St. Patrick's Day craft we did. It's a felt board with 5 little shamrocks and their neighborhood.
Things you'll need:
*A piece of cardboard
*Felt, Green, Yellow, Blue and Brown
*markers, scissors and templates if you don't want to free hand your shapes
*googly eyes if you want your shamrocks to have faces

Cut your piece of cardboard however you want. I just cut mine to match the size of the felt. Actually, I just bought a piece of self adhesive felt in blue and stuck it on. Voila, a background. Next, cut out your shapes. You'll need 5 shamrocks, a door, a tree, and a bee hive. Add faces to your shamrocks if you want. If you want your shapes to stick to your felt board you can glue a little piece of coarse sandpaper to the backs. But if you don't have sandpaper you can just play with it laying flat. Another option would be to glue your shamrocks to popsicle sticks to make puppets. Kids seem to like waving things around. Mine is very plain but you can get creative!



The poem: (you can laminate the poem or stick it between 2 pieces of contact paper)

One green shamrock in the morning dew.
Another one sprouted,
and then there were two.

Two green shamrocks growing beneath a tree.
Another one sprouted,
and then there were three.

Three green shamrocks by the cottage door.
Another one sprouted,
and then there were four.

Four green shamrocks near a beehive.
Another one sprouted,
and then there were five.

Five little shamrocks bright and emerald green.
Think of all the luck these shamrocks will bring!