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Shamrock Straw Toppers

As a nod to Saint Patrick's Day, let your kids create their own luck with four-leaf-clover straw toppers.
Martha Stewart Living, March 2012

As a nod to Saint Patrick's Day, let your kids create their own luck with four-leaf-clover straw toppers. Shamrocks fashioned from green card stock make for an instantly festive table.

Tools and Materials

Card stock
Scissors
Bendable drinking straws, in green

 

Shamrock Straw Toppers How-To

  1. Cut card stock into 5-inch squares.
  2. Fold each square in half diagonally, creating a triangle, and then fold in half once more to make a smaller triangle. Trim off outer points as indicated.
  3. Unfold paper halfway, as shown. Cut a small V at the bottom, in the center.
  4. Unfold shamrock, and crease diagonally, reversing the direction of the fold; repeat to make another diagonal crease. Slide card-stock shamrock onto one end of a green straw. Make a wish, and have a sip!

Reviews (3)

  • susan373
    16 Mar, 2013

    After cutting your four leaves, open them up and cut one into a rectangle shape to make a stem. Perfect shamrock!

  • naplesgirl
    6 Mar, 2013

    @bebeth: Thank you, Sheldon Cooper.

  • bebeth
    17 Mar, 2012

    Lovely idea...however not to be confused with four-leaf clover....The shamrock is a Three-Leaf old white clover.