Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and Make a Leprechaun Bottle Topper
Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? We do. Hubby is half Irish and any excuse to have a beer works for us. When we were younger, St Paddy’s day was all about pub crawls and eating lots of weird green things. Those days are long gone but we can still celebrate this Irish holiday by making a leprechaun bottle topper for our favorite green beer.
#StPatrickDay is like Valentine’s day for people who love #Guinness and bad decisions. Like us 😉
They are really easy to make too. Okay, before I get to the tutorial, please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Instagram. And don’t forget to subscribe so you’ll never miss a post!
What you need
All you need is a piece of green felt, stockings, black fabric, a soda pop thingy, tin foil, orange furry fabric, and a glue gun.
Leprechaun Bottle Toppers – The How-To
The leprechaun bottle topper took about 5 minutes to put together. Figuring out how to cut the hat took me about an hour though, grrrrrrrr. I just couldn’t seem to get my head around how to make it. I’m blaming it on the fact that I hadn’t had my second cup of coffee yet 😉 Just in case you’re in between cups too, here’s the pattern.
Cut the green felt and then roll it up like a cone, making sure that the back edge lines up nicely before gluing it down.
Take some tin foil (aluminum foil) and scrunch it up into a cone form before stuffing it inside the hat.
The tinfoil acts as a stopper and you can bend it to give the hat more character 😉 We did the same thing when we made this awesome leprechaun shoe planter. It’s such a simple trick. It even works when you’re making a fairy toadstool.
For the nose, cut a piece of stocking, add some stuffing or cotton wool and use a hair elastic to tie it off.
If you don’t have an elastic band, a piece of string will work too.
To make the hatband and buckle bend the soda pop thingy in half and thread a strip of black fabric through the thingy. Is it called a soda pop tab?
Putting the leprechaun bottle topper together
Use a glue gun to attach the nose to the inside of the hat, push the extra bits of stocking up inside the hat. Glue the furry orange beard to the inside of the hat, starting at the back of the hat and working your way around. Finally, glue on the hatband.
Bend the hat into whatever topsy, turvy, wonky shape you like and plonk the bottle topper onto your favorite green beer 😀
Take some photos of said green beer with the leprechaun bottle topper among the Cymbilaria muralis or ivy-leafed toadflax. Don’t you think it looks just like a four-leaf clover? Well kinda anyway 😉
Open that green beer to cheers St Patrick and all the amazing things he did for Ireland way back in 400 something AD. Oh, I almost forgot, talk about the luck of the Irish. While I was making the leprechaun bottle topper, hubby found this little wire clover thing on the floor.
I have absolutely no idea where it came from. None whatsoever, but it fits. Talk about serendipity. It’s pretty easy to make too. Just bend some jewelry wire into a clover shape.
Pssttt wanna see some more jewelry wire crafts? We have a whole bunch of wire craft tutorials that you’ll really enjoy.
Do you have any ♧︎DIY♧ planned for St. Patrick’s Day? I’d love to hear what you’ll be making and how you plan on celebrating.
And if you’re looking for more craft ideas for St Paddy’s Day, then you’ll love this lucky leprechaun charm or this leprechaun shoe planter.
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Or how about some of these super cool t-shirts. I have to get that first one for the hubby 😀
Okay, that’s all from me this week. May you never forget what’s worth remembering, nor ever remember what’s best forgotten. Sláinte mhaith.
Could you tell me what size piece of fur you used? I’m looking to do with my girl scout troop and want to purchase the correct amount and want to cut it for each girl to have the right size. Thanks!
Oh I love the idea of making the little topper as part of a girls scout group, Suzanne. A 15 cm x 15 cm (6″x 6″) piece of fur for each bottle topper should be more than enough. Hope you all have loads of fun making the little Leprechauns
Hi, this is too cute! I was thinking that this can kind of be adapted to any season using colors for different holidays. A scarecrow, elf, even a rabbit using two of the hat points by just rounding the top for ears. I am a creative crafter but I am having a problem with the beard. Is that brushed wool? I was thinking yarn but I know it wouldn’t brush and look like your beard. Is there anything else besides wool I could use? Wool isn’t in my stash.
Hey Karen, I love your ideas on how to change the bottle toppers. Stunning, thank you. The beard is a piece of faux furry material that’s been lying around in our craft cupboard. Hope that helps
sorry to jump in on someone’s post. I don’t see where I can PM or post. I just wanted to say this gnome is cute! And your purr and furr kids are gorgeous!
No worries at all Sandy ? and our purr and fur babies say thank you very much for the compliment too
crazy cool! Imagination gone wild for sure. creative masterpiece.
Thank you so much Debbie 😀
Another cute craft idea of yours Michelle! This little guy’s nose peeking through underneath the big hat is too adorable!!
Awwww thank you Ilka
Wow! This has got to be the cutes leprechaun I’ve ever seen 🙂
Fantastic job!
Thank you so much Maya
What a great idea!
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Thank you so much Jodie
Oh my! I love this guy!!!
Yay, glad you like him Handan
This makes me smile, Michelle 😀 You’re so talented in everything you do. Pinned!
Thank you so much Anon, I really appreciate that 😀
Michelle, this little guy is friggin’ adorable! His beard is just perfect and scraggly and that orange! Love it. You amaze me with your creativity, although I shouldn’t be I am surprised at your ingenuity each time! Happy St. Paddy’s day!
Thanks so much Nikki, and to you too
I’m going away for a day at the races with a group of Irish girls that I trained with next month just a couple of days before Paddy’s day so I’m going to try and get organised and make some of these to take – they are adorable!
That sounds like so much fun Sarah. Let me know if any of the instructions aren’t clear enough.
What a cute bottle topper! That is really strange how that wire clover just appeared on the floor. But it fit perfectly with the bottle topper.
It’s the strangest thing that Linda, but I’m glad hubby found it.
He is fab! I love that you found some wire at the end, like it was meant to be xx
Thanks so much Yvonne, yup that wire clover will always remain a mystery
Seriously too cute. Each year when my kids were in lower elementary school, they had to make a leprechaun trap. It so drove me nuts. This your leprechaun is actually worth catching.
LOL, I’m so glad to hear that Kellie
This little leprechaun is so cute. I am sure he will provide more luck to you, that little clove is the beginning. Thanks for the hat pattern, I can’t get my head around those things no matter what I drink
I know right Pili, and here I was thinking that a hat couldn’t be too difficult to figure out.
Love these! A couple of these sitting out at the bar would be pretty cute! Great idea.
Thank you so much Zenda 😉
Hi Michelle, this bottle topper look cute, I like the green hat and its filling is a great idea, which is making it stand straight. I have no idea about this St.Patrck’s day, what I have seen is that food bloggers cook some green items that day. What is the story about having or eating green items that day?
Thank you so much Sadhna for your lovely comment. The reason behind all the green food is actually really sad. Ireland suffered a horrible famine in the late 1840s, which is when many of them immigrated to America. The poor people who couldn’t afford passage to the States had to eat grass to try and survive, that’s how bad the famine was. They say that lots of people died with green mouths and I believe that’s where the tradition of eating green food comes from. In remembrance of the suffering, although I don’t think to many people actually think about the reason any more.
Oh my goodness this little leprechaun is priceless. I love him lol. Your creativity never fails to amaze me.
Thank you Leanna 😀
Michelle, this little leprechaun bottle topper is so adorable!! His beard and the hat that can be shaped to and fro is very charming. This is a very clever idea. I hope you and your husband have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day!!
Thank you so much Keri, I’m sure we will.
Dear friend this is just adorable. I don’t know about the Irish but this looks to me like one of the 12 dwarves on their way to the Lonely mountain to defeat Smaug! I hope you have a jolly great time for St. Paddy’s!
Thanks so much Mary and you’re right it does look a lot like one of those dwarves 😉
Oh this is the cutest, wackiest little leprechaun and I love it! We don’t do anything for St. Patricks Day here, but when we lived in Canada it was always fun to go downtown and see everything green and people dressed up. Talking about luck hey? That little wire clover was meant to be!
Finding that little wire clover was just weird. I’m still trying to figure out where it came from Katrin
That’s just so cute. We’re both Irish so St. Patty’s day is something we look forward to
Thank you so much Nevina, you have such a beautiful name too