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Get ready for St. Patrick’s Day and give your child the chance to practice some sewing with this lucky clover necklace! The pieces are easy for little hands to stitch through with a large plastic needle, and they’ll be so proud to wear their creation.

You will need to pre-cut the clover shapes, but they don’t take long to cut. You can make them out of felt, as I’ve shown here, or out of paper. The benefit to felt is that the clovers are more reusable, so you can pull them off the string and your child can sew them again. Of course, with paper you can cut several layers of clovers at once!

You will need:

Green felt or paper
Rainbow yarn
Large plastic needle
Pencil
Scissors
Small hole punch
Freezer paper & iron (if using felt)

Lucky Clovers PDF Templates

Trace the lucky clovers onto freezer paper (or if you’re using green paper, trace directly onto the paper). Iron the freezer paper, shiny side down, onto the felt.

Trace a variety of sizes and make a bunch!

Cut out the shapes. If you are working with felt, leave the paper attached to the felt. If you’re using paper, hold or staple several pieces together as you cut them out.

Use a hole punch to make two small holes near the middle of each clover. Punching through the freezer paper and felt at the same time will make it easier to make the holes.

Peel away the freezer paper and the clovers are ready!

Cut a 2 yard piece of yarn and thread it through the plastic needle. Slide the needle to the middle of the yarn and tie a doubled knot several inches from the loose ends.

Show your child how to stitch through the clovers. Older children may want to try stitching through the two holes as shown above, then slide the clover down toward the knot.

Younger children may find it easier to stitch through one hole, then through the other, as shown above.

Continue adding clovers. Encourage your child to try making patterns with the clovers, alternating color and size, or let them just have fun with it!

Cut the loop of thread at the needle, then tie a doubled knot several inches from the end. Tie the ends together with a square knot.

Let your child wear their necklace with Irish pride!

If you have a little one who would rather wear a bracelet, use the smallest clovers and make the yarn shorter. Or, let them make several strings of lucky clovers and tie them together for a garland!

Happy Crafting!