How to Draw a Shamrock: Easy Step-by-Step Art Lesson for Kids

Here you’ll find an easy step-by-step tutorial video for how to draw a Shamrock and a Shamrock Coloring Page. It makes a pretty drawing or painting.

Shamrock Painting

More about this easy Shamrock art lesson

Here’s a super easy way for your students to draw not just one shamrock, but a whole page of them! Once students learn the formula for drawing one, it’s easy to fill their whole page with them.

Either way, do use the trick of drawing some curvy cross shapes all over the paper to first create a balanced layout, and then turn those cross ends into heart shaped leaves. It’s an easy way to make a page full of dancing shamrocks. Press extra hard with crayon along the spines to give those leaves an extra dimensional look.

If you like the look of the painting though, with the gold lines on it, here’s all you need to do:
1. “Draw” the shamrocks with a dark green paint. Watercolor or tempera will work.
2. Water down the paint you are using, to make it a lighter value.
3. Paint around each shamrock, leaving a little white space. It will not only keep your paint colors from running together, it brightens up the artwork too!
4. When the paint is dry, use a gold metallic marker to outline the shamrock and add vein lines inside. No need to be exact, a quick tracing will look great!