Project
Shamrock Straw Toppers
As a nod to Saint Patrick's Day, let your kids create their own luck with four-leaf-clover straw toppers.
Source
Martha Stewart Living, March 2012Get More
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- Card stock
- Scissors
- Bendable drinking straws, in green
Steps
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Step 1 of 4
Cut card stock into 5-inch squares.
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Step 2 of 4
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.
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Step 3 of 4
Unfold paper halfway, as shown. Cut a small V at the bottom, in the center.
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Step 4 of 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!
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After cutting your four leaves, open them up and cut one into a rectangle shape to make a stem. Perfect shamrock!
@bebeth: Thank you, Sheldon Cooper.
Lovely idea...however not to be confused with four-leaf clover....The shamrock is a Three-Leaf old white clover.