Holy Trinity Shamrock Mobiles

Holy Trinity Shamrock Mobiles

We made these yesterday. It was an interesting endeavor as there seemed to be a lot of prep work involved. It is safe to say, it took the kids all of 5 minutes to decorate their shamrocks and 15 minutes for my to assemble them. I suggest you get older children to help out with this project if you have them on hand (glad I have 2). Oh and you can make this for any occasion, you just have to change up the theme. And this cost me $7 to make 3 of them.

While we made these, I discussed with the children about the Holy Trinity. We also talked about God's promises and how luck is a blessing from God. 

So here's what you will need:

24   3" shamrocks

24   1' pieces of string or yarn

2     1' green pipe cleaners

1     Pair of scissors

1     Single punch hole puncher

8     Small bells

1     Small square foam sheet

Many   Small variously shaped, self-adhesive shamrock stickers

Here what you do:

1. Cut the pipe cleaner in half to make 4 equal parts.

2. Twist the pipe cleaner to make a ring.

3. Line the strings up evenly and tie them to the pipe cleaner ring.

4. Trace a large circle on the square foam and then trace a smaller circle inside the larger circle. Your ring should be at least wide. The larger circle was about 6" in diameter and the inner was about 4.5" in diameter.

5. Punch 8 evenly spaced holes into the foam ring. 

6. String the yarn through the holes. Loop the string around and go through the same hole again.

7. Carefully thread the bells on. I had to use a toothpick to help me thread it through. It was an interesting trick. 

8. Punch a hole in the 3" shamrocks. Let the children decorate them with the shamrock stickers. 

9. Tie the large shamrocks to the strings at different heights. Your project is finished. Now you can hang it up.

Some of the children may be able to help with the other steps. This project turned out to be a whole lot of fun. We talked about what were blessings and it seemed to be a productive activity. We also talked about St. Patrick. You can adapt your own ideas to this. It really is a great opportunity to incorporate Christ and history into this one activity.