• Create a rainbow out of beads.Goodshoot/Goodshoot/Getty Images
  
  Spread the luck o' the Irish on St. Patrick's Day by creating gifts made of beads for your friends and loved ones. Whether you're a parent, a teacher or a just someone who enjoys making crafts, you can create a variety of gifts for St. Patrick's Day from craft beads. The recipient can don these gifts on the holiday or display them around the house.
  
  

Beaded Rainbow

• In Irish folklore, the leprechaun's pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow. Use beads to create a rainbow decoration to give on St. Patrick's Day. From a craft store, purchase a collection of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple pony beads--plastic craft beads with a hole in the center--pipe cleaners in the same color as the pony beads, a small foam block and cotton balls. String the pony beads onto the matching colored pipe cleaners. For example, string the purple beads onto the purple pipe cleaner. After you've strung the beads onto the pipe cleaners, bend them and insert them each of the ends into the foam block, forming an arch. Begin with the purple and then place the blue above the purple and so forth, completing the color sequence of the spectrum. Once you have created the rainbow, cover the foam block by gluing cotton balls onto it.
  
  

Irish Flag Pin

• Use beads to make an Irish flag pin to be worn on St. Patrick's Day. Again, visit your local craft store and purchase green, white and orange pony beads, as well as small and large safety pins. String two small safety pins with green pony beads, two small pins with white beads and two small pins with orange beads. After filling each of the pins with beads, attach them to the larger safety pins so that they hang down and close them. The green beaded pins should be placed on the larger pin first, followed by the white pins and lastly, the orange pins, creating an Irish flag.
  
  

St. Patrick's Day Necklace

• Fashion a necklace from green and white beads and elastic string, which the receiver can wear to show her Irish pride on St. Patty's Day. Cut a length of elastic string to however long you desire the necklace to be. Tie a knot on the end of the string and place five green beads on it, followed by five white beads--or any other pattern you'd like. Continue the pattern you've chosen until you have filled the entire length of the string, leaving enough room at the other end to tie another knot. After tying another knot in the other end of the string, tie both ends together, forming a necklace.