St. Patrick's Day Craft

St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner, so I decided to do a craft with my little guy and decorate the house.  We decided to do a "St. Patrick's Day Rainbow Wreath".

What you'll need:

Paper Plate
Macaroni (any kind you have)
White Tissue Paper
Glue
Crayons
1 Package of paper Shamrocks from your local dollar store (or just cut them out from green paper)
Food Coloring

**I bought a package of paper Shamrocks at the Dollar Tree.  They came in packs of 12, 6 with glitter, and 6 plain.  This is the only item I purchased for this project, everything else I had in my house.

This is really a 2 day project.  First take the macaroni and put in a plastic bag with a few drops of green food coloring, and shake around to get all of the macaroni covered.  This dries pretty quickly, in a about 15 minutes.  Let it just dry in the bag, with the bag open.

Then take your white tissue paper.  Cut out 6 strips about 10 inches long, and about 10 smaller squares pieces.  Place 1/4 cup of water and 3-4 drops of food coloring in the bowl, and add a few strips and squares of tissues per color.  I used, yellow, blue, green and red.

Place the wet tissue paper on wax paper, and let dry over night.

The next day, take the paper plate and cut the center out to make a wreath.  Then let your little ones draw on it with crayons.

We then glued the shamrocks onto the wreath.  Next we glued the pasta and the square paces of tissue paper.  When that dries, turn the wreath over and glue the long pieces of tissue paper on, to make it look like a rainbow.

And there you have it, a pretty, inexpensive and FUN St. Patrick's Day wreath!  Enjoy!