Make a shamrock wine cork craft for St. Patrick’s Day using new or used wine corks, glue, and paint. This wine cork craft project comes together in about 30 minutes with basic craft supplies. Use a free shamrock template to create the shamrock clover shape. Glue the wine corks together and paint them a variety of green hues. Add a ribbon to the middle for the final touch.

Wine Cork Shamrock Craft

Shamrock Supplies and Tools

• 41 Wine Corks – you can use recycled or new corks
• Acrylic Craft Paint – Light Green, Medium Green, Dark Green
• Grosgrain Ribbon – green, white, rainbow or whatever you like best
• Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
• Scissors
• Paintbrush

Shamrock Craft Instructions

Start making the shamrock by creating 3 clover leaves. Lay out 12 corks standing up on your work surface: one cork, two corks, three corks, four corks, then two corks. Glue the corks together on their sides in rows.

Then stack and glue the one, two, three, and four corks in a pyramid shape with a glue gun and glue sticks. Attach the final two corks between the first and second ones on the right and left sides to create a heart shape. If using liquid craft glue instead of hot glue, hold the corks together with a rubber band during drying. Using 24 corks, create two more cork hearts following the same steps.

Make the shamrock by attaching the three cork hearts together at the base of each heart with a glue gun and glue sticks.

Glue the last 5 corks in a curved row from the base of the shamrock.  

Paint some of the tops of the corks with dark green acrylic craft paint using a paintbrush.

Continue painting all the tops in different shades of green.

To finish, tie the grosgrain ribbon into a bow, and then glue it to the center of the cork shamrock.