The salt will make the shamrocks shine and sparkle when they dry. These would make excellent St. Patrick's Day mobiles. Each child will need a potato. Cut the end from the potato. The outline of a shamrock is drawn on the cut end.
Excess potato is removed so that only the shamrock remains raised on the surface.
The potato is used like a stamp to decorate paper or create prints cards for St. Patrick's Day. Adult will spray paint small rocks with gold paint. When children arrive, they are told that the leprechaun as discussed in the Legend of the Leprechaun has hidden his gold around the classroom and they can help him to find it.