Elementary St. Patrick’s Day Craft: Luck or Blessings

Use this St. Patrick’s Day craft to help children understand the difference between luck and blessings.

What you’ll need:

Bibles
4 white cone-type coffee filters per child
blue and yellow washable markers
spray bottle with water
newspaper or a tarp
11×17 construction paper
cooling racks
glue sticks
black markers

Say: When we think about St. Patrick’s Day, we think about good luck.

Ask:

What trinkets or items do people sometimes believe can bring good luck?

Say: One symbol of luck associated with St. Patrick’s Day is a four-leaf clover. Let’s make some four-leaf clovers as we learn about the difference between luck and blessings from God.

Color and spray coffee filters.

Have kids each color four coffee filters with blue and yellow washable markers, using more yellow than blue. Place the filters on newspaper or tarp, and spray them with water. The colors will blend together. Then place the filters on a cooling rack to dry.

Read a Bible verse.

Form eight groups if possible, but keep at least two kids per group. If you can’t make eight groups, then assign group additional verses. Have groups each look up one verse of Matthew 5:3-11. Have groups read aloud their verses in order so everyone can hear all verses.

Ask:

Explain whether the situation in your verse sounds lucky.
What’s the difference between blessed and lucky?

Say: Let’s finish our four-leaf clovers. But rather than use them as a sign of good luck, let’s use them to thank God for his blessings.

Make four-leaf clovers.

Have kids glue the filters onto the construction paper in the shape of a four-leaf clover and use markers to draw a stem. Then have kids use the black markers to write one blessing on each coffee filter.

Say: The Bible doesn’t have a lot to say about being lucky. But it has a lot to say about being blessed. This St. Patrick’s Day, when you see something that points to good luck, remember that with God, we don’t need luck. He loves us and gives us blessings every day—we just have to pay attention to see them.

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