St. Patricks Day Candy Holder SVG

Looking for a fun St. Patrick’s Day craft that’s fast, festive, and perfect for gifting? This St. Patrick’s Day Candy Holder SVG is an adorable way to package treats for classroom parties, coworkers, friends, or holiday events. Designed for easy cutting on Cricut, Silhouette, and other machines, this project comes together in minutes and adds a charming handmade touch to your celebrations.

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Learn how to make St. Patrick’s Day Candy Holders with Cricut

Whether you’re making shamrock‑themed favors, or planning treats for the classroom, this candy holder SVG is a simple crowd‑pleaser that delivers big festive charm.

Watch the video tutorial to learn how to make St. Patrick’s Day Candy Holders with your Cricut here:

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To Make these Candy Holders, You Will Need:

• Medium or heavy weight Cardstock/Paper – This variety pack will have all the colors you need.
• Cricut Maker or Explore Cutting Machine and your standard cutting mat.
• A glue with a fine point to it – This Bearly Art craft glue is what I am using.
• 3.15″ Clear Fillable Ornaments – these are the ornaments that I use. If you use a different size ornament, you will need to resize the SVG files accordingly.
• Foam dots or foam tape – These are the foam dots that I am using and recommend.
• Gold Coin Chocolates – I am using the medium size of these gold coin chocolates.

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Cricut Design Space Instructions

Create a new project in Cricut Design Space and then upload the candy holder SVG and add it to your canvas. Decide if you are making the version with the closing mechanism or the perforated back and delete the version you don’t want. You will first need to ungroup the layers to delete this.

There are no modifications needed for these designs. However, if you are using a different size ornament than these ornaments here, then you will have to resize the files. To do this, measure the opening of your ornament and create a circle in Cricut Design Space with the same height and width.

With your elements still grouped together, resize them so the circle cut out is the same size as your circle. Make sure that you resize all the elements, including the closing mechanism together to keep the proportions.

How to Assemble the St. Patrick’s Day Candy Holders

Each of the candy holders come with 2 different versions. There is a version with the closing mechanism and another with the perforated back. They both are assembled mostly the same. However, the closing mechanism will take a couple extra steps.

So, first I’ll show you how to assemble the closing mechanism and then how to layer each of the designs.

Assembling the Closing Mechanism

1. Layer your 3 closing mechanism pieces over the cut out on the back of your candy holder. You will layer them with the round piece closest to your candy holder, then the piece with the pull lever and then the piece with the tabs. Make sure the arrow is pointing down for your pull lever and that the tab opening is where you will pull this down.
2. Flip the pieces over, keeping them in order and place them on your work surface. Add a small amount of glue to the edge of the tag piece and fold it over to attach to the other side. It’s important to use a small amount of glue as you don’t want any glue seeping in, causing the pieces to get stuck together. The middle lever should move freely inside.
3. Flip the closing mechanism back around and glue it to the back side of your candy holder, covering the opening.
4. You should easily be able to pull the lever up and down to open and close your candy holder.

Pot of Gold Candy Holder Tutorial

For the pot of gold candy holder, you’ll start by assembly 2 different pieces. First glue the rainbow pieces on top of the back layer (this is the largest black layer). Then glue the gold on top of the pot and then the shamrocks on top.

Tip: Make sure to line everything up before gluing anything down.

Flip the pot of gold over and place foam dots all around the back. You can also cut strips of foam tape. Place your ornament over the circle opening of your haunted house. If you are making the version with the perforated back, make sure to place your candy inside the dome before placing the top piece on.

Then place your top piece on and press down to attach the foam dots to the bottom layer.

If you are making the version with the closing mechanism, make sure to glue the mechanism to the back and then add your candy.

Note: You can also glue these down instead of using the foam dots. But you will also need to glue the ornament down as well. The depth of the foam dots is what keep the ornament in place.

St. Patrick’s Day Gnome Candy Holder Tutorial

For the St. Patrick’s Day Gnome candy holder, start by assembling the top layer. So glue the green hat and beard to the front of the skin colored layer.

Then flip the gnome over and place foam dots (or strips) all around the back. You can also glue these layers together if you don’t want to use the foam dots. But, you will also need to glue down the ornament as the depth from the foam dots is what holders this together.

Before placing the gnome top layer on, place the ornament where it goes on the bottom layer. If you are using the perforated version, make sure to add your candy first. And if you are using the version with the closing mechanism, make sure to glue this to the back of the yellow layer.

Then place the top layer on top, pressing down the foam dots to hold this in place.

Shamrock Candy Holder Tutorial

The shamrock candy holder is the easiest to assemble. Since this design has only 2 layers, you just need to attach the top layer to the bottom layer using either the foam or glue method. If you are using the perforated version, make sure to add your candy before placing the top layer on top. And if you are using the version with the closing mechanism, make sure to glue this to the back of the yellow layer.

When you’re done, make sure to post these in my crafting group here or tag me if you post them on social media. I would love to see how yours come out!