An Activity for School-Age:
A remarkable mobile to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

Before You Begin:
Gather green and black foam sheets, glue dots or glue, construction paper in rainbow
colors, glitter glue and wooden circles to make coins.

Activity Goals:
To encourage following instructions through a process art project while creating a
colorful, fun hanging mobile.

Furthermore:
To complete this craft with younger children, you may wish to assist them with tracing the
designs to be cut from foam sheets.

Steps:

1. Use scissors to cut pieces of the hat from foam and then use glue dots to hold the pieces
   together.
2. Create a rainbow paper chain from construction paper and glue dots.
3. Creating a pot of gold by cutting a pot shape from foam sheets and painting wood circles
   with glitter glue to make gold coins.
4. To hang the mobile, punch or poke holes in the foam and tie pieces with yarn or string, or
   use glue to attach yarn.
5. Hang the mobile from a window or ceiling and enjoy.