Sparky and His Peanuts Gang

Snoopy in Planet Snoopy at Cedar Point

      Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000), nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown, among others). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, cited as a major influence by many later cartoonists. Calvin and Hobbes-creator Bill Watterson wrote in 2007: "Peanuts pretty much defines the modern comic strip, so even now it's hard to see it with fresh eyes. The clean, minimalist drawings, the sarcastic humor, the unflinching emotional honesty, the inner thoughts of a household pet, the serious treatment of children, the wild fantasies, the merchandising on an enormous scale -- in countless ways, Schulz blazed the wide trail that most every cartoonist since has tried to follow."

      At its height, Peanuts was published daily in 2,600 papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages. Over the nearly 50 years that Peanuts was published, Schulz drew nearly 18,000 strips. The strips themselves, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of more than $1 billion per year, with Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually. During the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late 1997 to celebrate his 75th birthday; reruns of the strip ran during his vacation, the only time reruns occurred while Schulz was alive.

Peanuts animations

      Schulz said that his routine every morning consisted of first eating a jelly donute, and then going through the day's mail with his secretary before sitting down to write and draw the day's strip at his studio. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for Sunday strips. Unlike many other successful cartoonists, Schulz never used assistants in producing the strip; he refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him."

      The first book collection of Peanuts strips was published in July 1952 by Rinehart & Company. Many more books followed, and these collections greatly contributed to the increasing popularity of the strip. In 2004, Fantagraphics began their Complete Peanuts series. Peanuts also proved popular in other media; the first animated TV special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, aired in December 1965 and won an Emmy award. Numerous TV specials were to follow, the latest being Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown in 2011. Until his death, Schulz wrote or cowrote the TV specials and carefully oversaw production of them. Read more...

See these links and many more on one pinboard - "The Peanuts Gang Pinboard" by Kathy Grimm

^{General Links to Sites Specific to Schulz's Legacy:}

1. Schulz's home page
2. Charles Schulz Museum
3. Charles Schulz interview (12 minutes), Fresh Air, National Public Radio, December 1990
4. Works by or about Charles M. Schulz in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
5. "Good Ol' Charles Schulz", American Masters, PBS, October 2007
6. "Happiness is hearing an intellectual laugh!" (mp3) Charles Schulz interviewed in his study by Gail Rudwick and John Whiting (October 30, 1962)

The Peanuts Gang:

1. Good Old Charlie Brown and short clips: ***
2. Peppermint Patty,  Peppermint Patty + Marcie and short clips: ***
3. Snoopy and short clips: ***
4. Linus Van Pelt and short clips: ****
5. Woodstock and short clips: ****

You Can Find Snoopy in the Most Unexpected Places:

1. the funny papers on wheels by isewcute 
2. Retro Space Images: Astronaut Tom Stafford and Snoopy
3. Snoopy at the Nation's Capital
4. Snoopy Transportation
5. A Giant Snoopy Snowdog!
6. Snoopy wrapped on vans
7. Snoopy on coin operated machines in Japan
8. In the shrubbery or more accurately, as shrubbery
9. Snoopy in the Sand
10. As an Ice Sculpture in a Competition
11. As another snow sculpture here and here again
12. Snoopy's dog house as a gingerbread house
13. Creeping through high rise windows!

Peanuts Doin' The Art Scene:

1. Snoopy and Woodstock made from cans
2. The Peanuts gang become high art in Louvre exhibit
3. The Peanuts Sculptures in Saint Paul and more and more

Get Graphic With Peanuts:

• Photo of the Day: The Peanuts Gang as Peanuts

Get Crafty With Peanuts:

• Charlie Brown Christmas Tree: Embroidered Gift
• Snoopy quilts: quilt from WineDiva here * flying ace quilt here **** 

Folks Like to Build Peanuts from Legos:

• Snoopy and Woodstock
• Woodstock on Top of Snoopy

Peanuts in Sweet Treats, Entrees and Coffee Houses:

1. Peanuts in my Latte!
2. Charlie Brown Breakfast
3. Charlie Brown Pumpkin Cookies
4. Snoopy Aviador para o Enzo 
5. Peanuts in my lunch box!
6. Snoopy cake pops
7. photo of Peanuts Character Cookies
8. Peanuts, Snoopy & Woodstock Christmas Cupcake Photo

Ed Emberley's Children's Books

This is a wonderful book for developing
geometric art projects for very young
students.

      Edward Randolph Emberley (born October 19, 1931) is an American artist and illustrator, best known for children's picture books. He studied art at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston (now Massachusetts College of Art and Design), from which he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and illustration. He also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design.

      Emberley is best known for his children's book work - particularly instructional drawing books. His drawing books for children feature clear step-by-step instructions employing numbers, letters, and shapes graded to the early elementary school level. For example, the book Ed Emberley's A.B.C. uses this style of instruction, presenting a single letter-based drawing for each letter of the alphabet. He has also illustrated or contributed to over 50 books, many of which were first published between the 1960s and 1980s. Renewed interest in Emberley's work has come from adults who first encountered his books as children and now are purchasing them for their own children. His most recent book,The Red Hen, was released on October 26, 2010; like his preceding work, Chicken Little (2009) it is a collaboration with Rebecca Emberley.

      Emberley's first book, The Wing on a Flea (1961), was an ALA Notable Book and made the New York Times list of best-illustrated books for that year. He was sole runner-up for the 1967 Caldecott Medal, as illustrator of One Wide River to Cross, written by his wife Barbara Emberley. Next year he won the Medal for another collaboration with Barbara, Drummer Hoff. The award by children's librarians annually recognizes "the most distinguished American picture book or children". Drummer Hoff was also named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

• Welcome to edemberley.com
• A Current Listing of Mr. Emberley's Books In Print
• An Extensive Listing of Ed Emberley's Books
• Ed Emberley, Children's Book Illustrator Video

"Product reviewed: Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals My goal is not to promote or hinder the sale of any product, but to help other parents make informed decisions. My reviews might also give a few ideas for birthday gifts to those who aren't sure what to buy for young children."

Stories, Books, and Film for Celebrating St. Patrick's Day

Many Legends of St. Patrick

Picturesque Variety of Incidents Crowded Into Life of the Great Apostle

      Popular tradition has surrounded the life of St. Patrick whose festival all loyal Irish celebrate, with a more picturesque variety of incidents than has been the fate of any other saint. Whether they are true or not is a matter of little importance if the stories are good. They have to be good, for the Irish are the authors.

      One of the most famous of the  myths connected with St. Patrick, perhaps the most famous after the traditional expulsion of snakes from Ireland, is the story of how the saint became connected with the shamrock. When St. Patrick first began to talk to the heathen Irish of the Trinity they did not believe him till he picked a shamrock and illustrated the doctrine by three leaves growing on one stem. This concrete analogy appealed to the druids and most of them became Christians. 

      These druids were St. Patrick's worst enemies, and he was forced by their hostility to act in a manner somewhat inappropriate for a saint. He cursed their lands for them, so that they became waste and drear bogs; he cursed their rivers, so that no fish could live in them: he cursed their kettles, so that they would not boil, and finally he cursed the earth, so that it opened and swallowed them up.

      The saint's most famous achievement was the ridding Ireland of snakes. The method he employed was novel at least. He simply called all the serpents together to the top of a mountain and compelled them to swallow each other until there was none left, but, as the Englishman said, that seems improbable.

A lovely children's collection of Irish folklore
and poetry from Kathleen Krull, illustrated by
 David McPhail.

      A more authentic account is that he drove the snakes out by beating a drum, and that, in his enthusiasm, he knocked a hole in it, which an angel at once came and mended. One huge snake he is said to have chained in Lough Dilveen, and even to this day, every Monday morning, the snake calls out in good Irish:

      "It's a long Monday, Patrick!"

      St. Patrick seems to have taken a great delight in performing miracles. Once when he was in England he saw a leper who wanted to make a voyage in a certain ship, but the captain would not let him. St. Patrick took a stone altar which had been consecrated b the pope and threw it into the water. He then made the leper sit on the altar, which floated and kept up with the ship for the whole voyage.

      He had a habit of setting a cross at the grave of a Christian whenever he could. In his travels one day he came upon two newly made graves at the head of one of which was a cross, St. Patrick stopped and asked the man in this grave what his religion was. The man replied he was a pagan.

      "Why, then, is this cross placed at your head?" St. Patrick asked.

      The man replied that his companion had become a Christian and that a mistake had been made in placing the cross. St. Patrick then corrected the error and went his way.

      But even St. Patrick made mistakes. He was once tempted to eat meat wen it was not proper to do so. He got some pork, but hid it for a time and before he found an opportunity to eat it he met a man with a pair of eyes in the back of his head in addition to the usual ones in front. St. Patrick asked the meaning of this and the man replied that with the eyes in his face he saw such things as other men saw, but with those in the back of his head he saw secret things and he now saw a monk hiding some fresh meat that he might eat it secretly. St. Patrick was a once stricken with remorse and prayed for forgiveness. And angel then appeared and commanded him to put the pork into water. This he did, and it was immediately changed into fishes.

      Such tales as these are told of by the Irish themselves with no hint of disrespect. They are merely the evidences of the all-pervading humor of this light-hearted people and should be taken in the same spirit by others. In spite of them the Irish worship the memory of St. Patrick above all other saints.

Illustration of Exodus 17:11 from the Book of Kells
watch the movie "The Secret of Kells" to celebrate
St. Patricks Day.

      It should not be imagined, however, that the traditions concerning the patron saint of Ireland are all humorous. Some of them embody that sense of the beautiful which is also an Irish characteristic. One of the most attractive of these tales is that of St. Patrick and the kings daughters.

      In the year 433 he celebrated Easter by converting many thousands of the inhabitants. After the termination of the services he went to Turn to try to convert the king. But the king would have none of the new religion, and St. Patrick's life was in danger. In despair he was departing from the town when he passed a fountain near which were two fair maidens. The maidens, full of wonder at St. Patrick's white garments, asked him who he was.

      St. Patrick told them he was a bishop of God and expounded the principles of Christianity. They were delighted with his discourse and became converted at once. Then they asked St. Patrick to return to Turn where their father was king.

      St. Patrick, much surprised to hear that two maidens were daughters of the king he had just visited, accompanied them back to the castle. Here the king was persuaded by the princesses to accept the new religion. The next day 12,000 of the people followed the example of their king and princesses. Carrizozo Outlook, 1918

• The Life of St. Patrick and His Place in History
• Ireland's Saint by J.B. Bury

Notes - The illustration of The Holy Trinity with a three leaf clover is actually not a "myth".  A myth is a widely held but false belief or idea. The teaching of a concept with a literal illustration attached to an object is called a parable or a metaphor.   

      Now parables are often referred to as myth when spoken about or described by "non-believers." The fact that you do not believe in something does not always mean that therefore it is incorrect. One must have proof that something is incorrect in order to successfully deny it's existence and the idea that St. Patrick may have spoken to the Irish in parables is not a very far fetched notion. After all, he was a follower of Jesus and Jesus often spoke in parables while giving sermons. 

      "The expulsion of snakes from Ireland," is also not a literal reference to snakes, but to paganism; the Irish do love to tell a good tale. The Irish worshiped gods and goddesses who used snakes to represent their ideology in St. Patrick's time and this is a reference to their practices.

      However, St. Patrick did not need to drive the pagans from Ireland through hostility like some folks wish to believe. The Irish converted to Christianity by their own free will quite easily. In fact, they converted so quickly that one might assume that a life time of superstition and fear was a bit depressing and well, unappealing at best. Christianity offered to the Irish hope in a God who would always forgive, love and welcome them home in death. And who would turn such an idea down? Not even a druid; I'd venture to guess. 

      Those who hated St. Patrick did so because they lost power to dominate and take pleasure in subjecting others to their own evil pleasures. That is a historical fact. To deny this obvious fact means that one is merely of the nature to live at the expense of another's demise. In other words, it is like an addict complaining because he is not allowed to rob who he chooses in order to feed his own appetites. St. Patrick did not "hate" anybody with his belief. In fact he freed much of Ireland from selfish tyranny. This is why he is celebrated all over the world. He also instrumentally preserved knowledge during a time when most of Europe was waging war against itself. 

      The cursing of rivers, land and kettles is not likely to have been within the power of a mere mortal. If such a thing did occur, I imagine that the The Lord had more to do with it than St. Patrick. (grin)

"The Secret of Kells," Read a Review Here

Irish folklore on video and in film:

• The Irish In Film
• Irish Storyteller tells Bridgette & Lurikeen
• The Tinker of Telemacht
• The Clever Daughter told by Pat Speight
• The Man With No Luck by Richard Marsh
• The Three Wishes told by Pat Speight
• "Coughed Up The Red Shirt & Flagged Down The Train"
• The Black Dog told by Eddie Lenihan
• St. Patrick and The Three Useless Things told by Eddie Lenihan

Irish folk and fairy tales for young people in the public domain:

• Fairy and Folk Tales of The Irish Peasantry Selected by W. B. Yeats
• Irish Fairy Tales, Edited by W. B. Yeats
• Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland - Jeremiah Curtin
• Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens
• Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
• Celtic Folklore at Internet Sacred Text Archive

St. Patrick's Greatness

Saint Patrick stained glass window from
Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland, CA.

      An Englishman who had toured the United States said to an American friend:

      "I cannot understand it. On the 22nd of February I supposed there would be a grand national demonstration in honor of George Washington. But nothing occured. On the 17th of March the city I was in was decorated in green flags and Irish emblems fluttered everywhere, the hotel menu card was in green ink and the evening paper came out in green.

      "Bands played in the streets, men paraded, the city police force and military turned out, there were balls, banquets and public speaking. What I want to know is whether St. Patrick or George Washington is the nation's patron saint."

      Some idea of how powerful a figure St. Patrick was may be gained by comparing the memory of St. Patrick, born 1,535 years ago, with that of George Washington, who has been dead a little more than a century.

      St. Patrick went to Ireland when it was plunged in the darkness of paganism. He confronted a hostile people with a dozen assistants. He carried the new civilization with him. He met a fighting race and subdued it single-handed.

      His first work in reaching a community was to preach the gospel in the native tongue of the people. This he did with Pauline fervor and a fire of conviction which fired the heart and imagination of the people. You can look at the work of any Irish priest to-day and see the duplication of St. Patrick's method. First a talk to the people, then the building of a church, then the erection of a school, and then the exhortation to practice the Christian virtues, the succor of the widow and the orphans, the weak, the fallen and the aged.

• The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick by Various
• Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus from Saint Patrick

      Patrick established universities which, by the labor of the inmates, were self-sustaining, and to which the youth of England flocked by thousands. Europe, during his lifetime, was in conflagration. Hordes of the north, Goths and Vandals, ravaged the south, and the lamp of learning, extinguished on the continent, burned brightly in the cloisters of the monasteries and universities of Ireland. Patrick translated nothing into Irish. He taught the Irish Latin and implanted, full born, the civilization of Christian Rome.

      He introduced the arts and crafts, developed agriculture, taught industry, application and love of work. Institutions of learning, churches and homes of religious workers, training schools and seminaries, were supported, not by contributions, but by labor of the inmates.

      From idleness to industry, from fighting to the arts of peace, from Druidical worship to Christian practice and ideals, St. Patrick turned the whole island by personal effort and example, by incessant exhausting toil. He died as he lived, without the possession of a groat.

      The arts and letters, science and biblical knowledge which fled from the continent took refuge in the famous schools which made Durrow and Arragh the universities of the west. To the eternal honor of Irish hospitality be it said that these thousands of strangers from every country in Europe were not only welcomed, but supplied gratuitousily with books, clothes and food.

• About Durrow Abby
• Irish midlands ancestry
• http://www.offalyhistory.com/content/reading_resources/books_articles/durrow_monastery.htm
• http://www.artsforpeace.ie/contacts.html
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "School of Durrow". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.

       The scholarship thus engendered refurbished Europe when, a century's anarchy over, the Irish missionaries emerged from schools and flashed over the charred remains of European civilization the sacred light of learning.

      So, when the bearer of the name Patrick, laborer and toiler though he be, remembers that his title is descended from one of the proudest in Rome, patrician, and thinks in his poverty and humility of the ancient glory of his people, where is there an American who will not honor in him the survival through the centuries of the pride and learning and achievement of his ancestors, and join him on St. Patrick's day in singing "All Hail to St. Patrick!" The Marion Daily Mirror, March 17th, 1909.

      As part of a more than fifty-year-old Chicago tradition, the Chicago River is dyed green in observance of St. Patrick's Day. The actual event does not necessarily occur on St. Patrick's Day and is scheduled for the Saturday of the closest weekend. The dye takes days to dissipate. The tradition of dyeing the river green arose by accident when some plumbers used fluorescein dye to trace sources of illegal pollution discharges. The dyeing of the river is still sponsored by the local plumbers union. 

 The Chicago River during the 2009 Saint Patrick's Day celebration.

Craft Three Age Appropriate Clover Mosaics for St. Patrick's Day

A Shamrock Mosaic Simple Enough for Children 3, 4 and 5 Years Old to Craft

A dried green pea mosaic craft easy enough for very young children to craft!

Supply List:

• dried green peas
• uncooked rice brown or white
• white paper plates
• white school glue
• stencil

Directions:

1. Teachers need to prepare the paper plates in advance. Draw and cut a shamrock stencil for this assignment. Cut it twice, once from scratch paper. Trace it onto the paper plate and cut out the second stencil. This second stencil will be easier to trace around quickly because it will include the contours of the paper plate. Now trace around it for however many paper plates you need in the classroom; one per student. Make sure you use a either a permanent ink marker or a pencil to do this so that the white glue will not cause the shamrock tracing to smear during the glueing process.
2. Pour out an ample supply of dried green peas into a shallow tray for the little ones to pick from during the project. 
3. Emphasize to them the importance in filling up their shamrock entirely with the green peas and white school glue. Have a sample their to show them how their completed shamrock should look. 
4. On the second day, students may repeat the same process of gluing with white or brown rice, filling in the outside space surrounding the shamrock.
5. This is a good opportunity for teachers to discuss positive and negative space concepts with their young students.
6. Students may then paste a boarder of green peas around the ridge of the paper plate on the third day. By this time they should be less intimidated by the pasting process.

Simple Clover Mosaic Craft for First, Second, and Third Graders

This clover mosaic is a bit more complex; it is assembled using torn and shredded shapes of paper.
Above photos show parts of the St. Patrick's Day craft up close.

A photo of my intermediate level paper mosaic for 1rst -3rd grade.

Supply List:

• brown, black, white, and several varieties of green construction paper
• white glue
• shamrock stencil (optional)
• white lead pencils

Directions:

1. Teachers should draw a simple clover on a chalk board or a white board demonstrating to his or her students what the parts of clover are.
2. Give each students a large black sheet of construction paper and a white pencil or a white crayon to draw a similar clover leaf pattern onto their paper.
3. Students may then tear the green papers and glue these pieces inside their clover leaf drawings. This part of the project may be further complicated if the teacher chooses to do so by using hand painted green papers to craft the purple clover leafs as I have done in the sample shown. Often times teachers choose to do this so that the assignment may be used to stretch over several days and including more processes in order to teach a combination of skills under the same assignment. If you want the assignment to be less complex, simply exclude this part of it and use plain green construction paper. However, do include a variety of greens so that the students may alternate the shades and craft an interesting abstract pattern.
4. After completing the clover, students may then select background colors consisting of at the very least, two colors of construction paper. I used black and brown for my teacher's example. But students may wish to choose more vibrant colors than these.
5. Next paste shredded lavender papers on top of each other to create delicate looking purple clover. I used a dark purple, and lighter purple and a white colored paper for this part of the assignment. Purple clover is very common to the State of Missouri where I live and so it is a natural selection of color for me to make for this mosaic. However, I could have chosen to use shades of grey for white clover blossoms if I had preferred them.
6. After the pictures dry, teachers may then choose to have students cover their mosaics with Modge Podge in order to better preserve their work.

A Fun Recyclable Clover Mosaic for Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Graders

Upper Left, The shredded purple papers for the purple clover flower buds. Lower Left,
The hand cut shredded painted papers for the clover's foliage. Right, The layered shredded
newsprint and shredded color paper mix for the first layer of the paper mosaic.

The finished purple clover, paper mosaic for St. Patrick's Day. This paper mosaic is complex enough
to hold the interests of fourth through sixth graders. It may also be challenging to students in middle school.

 

Close up camera shots of the purple clover mosaic.

Supply List:

• newsprint
• magazines
• printed green papers
• scissors
• white glue

Directions:

1. This project provides the perfect opportunity to introduce your students to the concept of recycling discarded papers on order to create works of art. 
2. The first layer of this St. Patrick's Day craft are made with shredded old newspapers and tossed construction paper scraps that have been cut into smaller pieces. 
3. I have included detailed photos here of how paper may be shredded by hand to craft very detailed complex art work. Encourage your students to spend time doing this scissor work over several days. Give them zip lock plastic bags to keep their shredded paper in. 
4. Students will need to cut green hearts in advance for clover leaves and shred tiny pieces of lavender paper to paste in lumps for the purple clover.
5. As you may have guessed, they will need an ample supply of white glue or wheat paste if you prefer to mix this prior to their pasting together the layers. 
6. The project is designed to take place over a few days of drying time between layers. However it is possible to do an entire mosaic over two hours with very little trouble. How much trouble will dependent  upon the student's age and dexterity, and also upon the size of the initial paper given for the "field" of clover. If you are concerned about time constraints, use 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch paper for the background. I choose to use large sheets of newsprint for my paper mosaic project.
7. I also cut my clover leaves and green stems from painted papers in order to complicate the assignment for older students. They will need an extra day for painting papers with brayers and combs.
8. Teachers may also use a paper shredder in order to speed up the art assignment for impatient participants. However, I applaud those students who are willing to develop the tenacity involved in manipulating their paper mosaics over several class periods. Certainly this should be encouraged with those students who are home schooled and have the opportunity to develop artwork over several days without time constraints.
9. After the artwork has been completed, teachers may choose to have their students brush on a top layer of Modge Podge in order to preserve their creations from damage. This will definitely need to be done if these pictures are to be displayed in the school's hallways.

Plant Long Held "Sacred"

Clover, of Which the Shamrock is a Species, Was Much Thought Of by the Ancient Greeks

      It is difficult to say what was the original shamrock, trefoil or Hero Trinity. The leaf now recognized as the national emblem is that of the white clover, but the name shamrock is the generic and is applied also to the purple clover, the speedwell, the pimpernel and to the wood sorrel.

      The clover of two or four leaves was held sacred in the festivals of the Greeks. The one of four leaves, when carried about, is supposed to insure success at play and confer the power of detecting evil spirits. The lover may put it under his pillow and he will dream of his beloved, or the maiden may slip it into her sweetheart's show without his knowledge and it will insure his safe return from any journey. It may be employed to prevent the wearer's being drawn into military service, is said to be a cure for lunacy, and is still, among the Irish, regarded as magical, even sacred. Snakes dislike it exceedingly and will not remain where it is growing.

      Some say that four-leaf shamrock is the shamrock of luck, and others that it is the five-leaved one that holds the magic touch. This latter is rare and prized and is said to grown from a decaying body, as the nettle is said to spring from buried human remains. The shamrock of luck must be found "without searching, without seeking." When thus discovered it should be cherished and preserved as an invincible talisman. The Semi-Weekly Tribune, North Platte, Nebraska, 1918

More Shamrock Crafts Just For Fun:

• Shamrock Favor Boxes
• A Lovely 3D Shamrock Card
• A Shamrock Sizziex Pop-up Die Project
• Kids Sewing Projects: Felt Shamrock Bracelet
• Polka dot Shamrock - Tutorial
• St. Patrick's Day Craft: How to make paper shamrocks
• A Lucky Burlap Banner for St. Patrick's Day