St., Patricks Day

Ah, St. Patricks day is upon us! It's a fun little holiday. We've done a few projects this year for some holiday fun! Click here to check out all of our St. Patricks day fun! One of our traditions is to have Corn beef and cabbage for St. Patricks day! We all love it. That was a tradition carried over from my own family. I think this year I will be adding my rainbow cupcakes, for a treat and maybe a green float. Simply use lime sherbet and add some sprite! How fun is that!!! My sister has a tradition of leaving their shoes outside for the leprechauns and they fill the kids shoes with treats. Gold coins and little trinkets. Then those tricky leprechauns hid their shoes and the kids have to find them. Such a cute idea.

Whatever your traditions may be, don't forget to wear your green tomorrow!!!!

Fluffy Shamrock

Cute, huh?? This was something I just came up with. I'm sure it's not very original, but I remember doing similar projects when I was kid.

First, print off the shamrock template. We used crepe paper, because it was easy to cut a lot of pieces into little squares, quickly. You could also use tissue paper.

Wrap your crepe paper around the end of a pencil. Dip the crepe paper into white glue and push down onto the template. Now repeat that step 100 times and you will get a fluffy, green shamrock!

My kiddo's didn't last long on this. If your child is meticulous really likes to do crafts, then it would work for them. Greta is 10 and she finished, but my 7-year-old little boy, didn't. Mandee's little girl Baylee, who is 7, she would have finished it to. It just depends on your child.

Rainbow Streamer

This was one of the easiest projects ever! Simply cut out the center of a paper plate. Let the kids color or decorate the plate rim as they wish.

Attach the crepe paper to the back. I only had 4 colors because that was all that my dollar store had. It would look much better with some purple and orange thrown it, but oh well.

Very easy for preschool age kids! The only thing I did was cut the center out of the plate. Now you have a cute rainbow streamer to help bring in St. Patrick's day!

This is a fun activity that could be adapted for any holiday really. I got this idea from Enchanted Learning.

Kissing the Blarney Stone

I loved this idea! St. Patrick's day is one of those holiday's, that I always wonder what to do for it? You can have a lot of fun with the color green! So we decided to make Blarney stones. And it led into painting little wooden cut outs and that lead to a big mess!! But the kids had a blast.
All we did was find some bigger sized rocks, washed them and painted them in different shades of green. We even broke out the blow dryer to dry them quickly. We decorated them with googly eye's. I have oodles of craft supplies, but this was all the kids wanted to do. I love, love, love the Geico eye's!! That was what my 5-year-old was calling them!

My 2-year-old was the only one who would kiss the Blarney Stone.

Which is awesome, because the girls needs some serious help with her speech!! I thought this was a blast and a great craft for our spring break!!

Yummy Green Punch

I am so excited to make this punch again on St. Pattys day!!!! This is one of our family favorites and the kids know that we will be drinking this on the 17th.

Green Punch Recipe
1 quart of water
46 oz of pineapple juice
1 packet of lime Kool-Aid
½ cup of sugar
1 quart ginger ale

This tastes the best if you chill the water, pineapple juice, Kool-Aid and sugar first.Then right before serving, add the ginger ale.

Shamrock & Rainbow Wreath

A great St. Patrick's days craft. We made these up in about 30 minutes. I had the kids cut the center out of a paper plate and then color the wreath green. You could paint the wreath, but given the age of 2 of the 4 kids, we opted to color. You can print off the shamrocks and the rainbows in black and white and also have the kids color those. We used the color template and just printed them and I cut them, while they colored the wreath. We used glue dots (best things ever invented) to stick the shamrocks and rainbows to the wreath. The kids used fishing line to attach the dangling rainbows.

We found this idea at DTLK and they have lots of great ideas. For the shamrock pattern we used, click here. For the rainbow's click here.

Leprechaun Trap

This was so much fun! St. Patricks Day is a holiday that gets overlooked a little in my house. We wear green and that is about it. I tried making corned beef last year but it didn't work too well. In my "Googleing" St. Patricks Day today I found these Leprechaun Traps and knew my kids would love to do this. BayLee wants to catch one to just say "Hi" and then let it go. They are so sure that this will work...so I think on St. Paddys day I will put something in the trap and say that he left it behind and used magic to get out or something like that. We just covered shoe boxes in foil, then I pulled out the craft tote and let them do whatever they wanted to their boxes. BayLee put Lucky Charms on hers and paper coins. Logan drew on his and added a rainbow.

They are so excited to put it out the night before St. Patricks Day! I am so glad we did this today.