Thoroughly Irish Clip Art

       Below are some Irish themed clip art for your classroom's St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Decorate worksheets, games, and craft projects with students too! This clip art is original to my site and copyrighted, Read the Terms of Use before downloading.

A ladies hat trimmed with a plaid bow and shamrocks.

A tiny leprechaun, barrel and potatoes.

The Irish flag and lucky shamrocks.

A happy leprechaun carries a sack of potatoes

A leprechaun dressed in a green suit smoking a lucky pipe.

Valentine Cuties Clip Art

Valentine flowers

       These little Valentine doodles were made years ago by my mother for her classroom projects. They would be fun to print on sticker paper and cut out for your students' next Valentine card craft. The clip art is free only for personal crafts and classrooms. Do not include it in any other online collections.

Valentine lady bugs

Valentines and ribbons

Valentines in a vase

Heart and stems for a Valentine

Salt Lifting Some Sand Castles

       Here you can see, third and fourth grade art students have added a bit of table salt to their wet watercolor paintings of sand castles; this is called salt lifting. Although the end product is unpredictable, it is a fun additional step to add to your young student's watercolor painting experiences. That last additional step will give their castles a bit of extra sandy grit.

Use ordinary table salt to add texture to

 your watercolor paintings.

The Mist and All

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The Mist and All by Dixie Willson

I like the fall,

The mist and all.

I like the night owl's

Lonely call--

And wailing sound 

Of wind around.

I like the gray

November day,

And bare, dead boughs

That coldly sway

Against my pane.

I like the rain.

I like to sti

And laugh at it--

And tend

My cozy fire a bit.

I like the fall--

The mist and all--

Lincoln

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Lincoln by Nancy Byrd Turner

There was a boy of other days,

A quiet, awkward, earnest lad,

Who trudged long weary miles to get

 A book on which his heart was set--

And then no candle had!

He was too poor to buy a lamp

But very wise in woodmen's ways.

He gathered seasoned bough and stem,

And crisping leaf, and kindled them

Into a ruddy blaze.

Then as he lay full length and read,

The firelight flickered on his face,

And etched his shadow on the gloom,

And made a picture in the room,

In that most humble place.

The hard years came, the hard years went,

But, gentle, brave, and strong of will,

He met them all. And when today

We see his pictured face we say, 

"There's light upon it still."