St. Patrick's Day 'artphone' art lesson with word search and leprechaun selfie

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and engage children creatively with this fun, modern fold out Instagram style, 'tech' mobile phone/tablet art activity.

This activity invites students to cut out and make their own fold out booklet style art-phone, and then to complete the image making on the front cover and the wordsearch and 'release your inner leprechaun' selfie drawing activity on the inside pages.

The finished 'artphone' measures 5 x 10 inches / 13 x 25.5cm.
It can be printed on US letter or A4 paper and is spellings are suitable for US, UK and Australia

The front cover:
What is your leprechaun name?
Create thumbnail doodles or drawings for the 7 sections:
Shamrock, Irish flag, pot of gold, rainbow, leprechaun hat and shoes, lucky horse shoe

The 2 fold out inner pages:
1. word search activity - find the18 words relating to St. Patrick's Day

2. Release your inner leprechaun!
Have fun creating a leprechaun selfie with the template provided

Considerations, how to use this activity:
Consider the space around the images you draw
How do the 7 images look collectively?
Is there an emerging theme or style or colour?
What colours do we associate with words?
eg shamrock: green

Work imaginatively!
The included example uses a black ball point pen and felt tips

The completed art-phones slip comfortably into a back pocket.
They will work well pegged up as a garland or can decorate a wall, door or bulletin board.