Do you celebrate St Patrick’s Day? My hubby is half Irish, so we most definitely do 😉 When we were younger it was a full-blown party with lots of green beer and singing Irish ballads at the top of our lungs. Now we spend the day quietly together, still with a beer or two in hand mind you 😀 Although the crazy parties have stopped we still like to add some Irish magick to our décor to celebrate the day. And this easy to make lucky leprechaun horseshoe charm will be going up on our wall and probably staying there all year.

Channel the luck of the Irish on St Patrick's day and make a Lucky Leprechaun Horseshoe Charm. Cute enough to stay up all year long, this craft idea takes less an hour to make. #StPatricksDay #ACraftyMix #Horseshoe #Repurpose

Luck shouldn’t just be a one day thing right?!!!!

Channel the luck of the Irish on St Patrick's day and make a Lucky Leprechaun Horseshoe Charm. Cute enough to stay up all year long, this craft idea takes less an hour to make. #StPatricksDay #ACraftyMix #Horseshoe #Repurpose

It’s a really quick and easy craft idea for St Patrick’s day.

Channel the luck of the Irish on St Patrick's day and make a Lucky Leprechaun Horseshoe Charm. Cute enough to stay up all year long, this craft idea takes less an hour to make. #StPatricksDay #ACraftyMix #Horseshoe #Repurpose

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What you need

  • Horseshoe
  • Green Fabric
  • Furry Orange Fabric
  • Air Dry Clay
  • Tooth Picks
  • Tin Foil
  • Stocking and Cotton Wool
  • Faux Greenery
  • Glue

What you need to make the lucky leprechaun horseshoe charm

How to make a Lucky Leprechaun Horseshoe Charm

Making the leprechaun

To make the Leprechaun’s beard, use the horseshoe as a guide and cut a simple triangular shape from the furry fabric. The triangle should be as wide as the horseshoe, and roughly 3/4 as long. Just make sure the top point of the triangle follows the direction of the hair pile and use a craft knife rather than scissors so the furry edges don’t end up looking ragged and chopped up.

Trim the furry fabric into a triangular shape

To make the leprechaun’s nose you can use whatever you have on hand. A wooden bead, small pom-pom, or a cut stocking stuffed with cotton wool both work really well. I have loads of old stockings so I used that. Take a small ball of cotton wool and place it in the middle of the cut stocking.

Place a small ball of cotton wool inside the stocking. Tie the back to form a blob nose

Twist and turn the stocking tightly around the cotton wool and tie a knot in the back.

Glue the little nose to the furry fabric

Fill the extra bits of stocking behind the knot with a larger ball of cotton wool and tie off again. Glue the beard around the second, larger blob, making sure that the little nose blob sits neatly in the center of the top of the beard.

Glue the beard on the larger cotton wool stuffed stocking

For the hat cut a semi-circle from a piece of fabric. The hat should fit on top of the second larger blob of cotton wool stuffed stocking. Roll the semi-circle into a cone shape and glue the edges down.

Glue the edges of the hat together

If you want your hat to make a little bend or kink, stuff it with tin foil.

Stuff the hat with tin foil if you want to bend it

For a more dignified, neat and tidy look use cotton wool instead 😉

Making Leprechaun shoes

The Leprechaun’s shoes are made from air dry clay. Cut two equally sized pieces of the clay and roll them into a ball. Flatten one end of the ball by rolling it gently . Pinch the rolled, flattened end into a point and twist upwards and around to form a curled toe for the shoe.

Cut two equal sized blocks from the air dry clay and roll into a ball. Pull on end of the ball into a point

Make a small indent in the shoe shape with your index finger. Roll some clay into a worm and stick it around the indent. 

Flatten the top end of the shoe and roll a long worm from the clay. Place it around the flattened portion.

Use your fingers to flatten the worm upwards and outwards a little.

What the leprechaun shoes should look like before baking

Bake or air dry the clay according to the instructions on the packaging.

Giving the Leprechaun some legs

For the Leprechaun’s legs, I used an old t-shirt, but you can use whatever fabric you have on hand. Cut two long strips and roll them up to form a tube.

Cut two long strips from an old t-shirt. Roll and use fabric glue to attach or sew closed

Add a little fabric glue to secure the roll of fabric. Glue or sew a small patch on if you like. I think it gives the soon-to-be legs leggings more character 😉

Glue or sew a patch onto the leggings

Putting everything together

Time to put everything together. The faux greenery I used to make this lucky Leprechaun horseshoe charm had lots of trailing bits all joined together on one wire stalk. I cut them off using my wire cutters, before gluing them to the bottom, back of the horseshoe.

Cut the faux succulents and glue onto the horseshoe

Position the legging on the front of the horseshoe, making sure the glued seam is facing towards the back, and glue them down. Trim any excess fabric.

Glue the leggings onto the horseshoe

Glue the Leprechaun on the horseshoe. Place his hat over the beard and nose and glue down.

Glue the hat on top of the leprechaun nose and beard

To finish off the lucky leprechaun charm, glue a toothpick or skewer inside the shoe …..

Insert a cut skewer into the clay shoe and leave to dry

…… and then glue the bottom of the leggings around the toothpick.

Glue the leggings around the skewered shoe

Add the glasses (if you have them) and a small feather and you’re all done 😀

Channel the luck of the Irish on St Patrick's day and make a Lucky Leprechaun Horseshoe Charm. Cute enough to stay up all year long, this craft idea takes less an hour to make. #StPatricksDay #ACraftyMix #Horseshoe #Repurpose

If you can’t find small glasses, this tutorial will show you how to make something similar.

Channel the luck of the Irish on St Patrick's day and make a Lucky Leprechaun Horseshoe Charm. Cute enough to stay up all year long, this craft idea takes less an hour to make. #StPatricksDay #ACraftyMix #Horseshoe #Repurpose

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Channel the luck of the Irish on St Patrick's day and make a Lucky Leprechaun Horseshoe Charm. Cute enough to stay up all year long, this craft idea takes less an hour to make. #StPatricksDay #ACraftyMix #Horseshoe #Repurpose

Channel the luck of the Irish on St Patrick's day and make a Lucky Leprechaun Horseshoe Charm. Cute enough to stay up all year long, this craft idea takes less an hour to make. #StPatricksDay #ACraftyMix #Horseshoe #Repurpose

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Want some more fun leprechaun crafts ideas? Then you’ll love the leprechaun shoe planter, this cute bottle topper, and these miniature sock gnomes that can be turned into leprechauns with a few tweaks. And if you’re looking for some of the things we used, we’ve got you covered. Disclosure: Clicking on the links below, means we may receive a commission from Amazon. But don’t worry it won’t come out of your pocket, and it helps us make more amazing crafts to share with you 😉

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