Saint Patrick's Day
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with crafts, food and fun for kids
Looking to "go green" for St. Patrick's Day? The other parents will be green with envy
when they see what you have planned for your kids on March 17, 2010! Planning a
Saint Patrick's Day party is a Piece O'Cake. Here are some simple and fun ways to
celebrate St. Patrick's Day with kids:
Here's how Mom (or Dad) can rock with shamrocks:
When you take three green hearts and put them together it makes a shamrock! Just
add a stem. It's a simple formula that works for cutting fondant, construction paper or
just about anything for your crafts and cooking. Here are some ideas to get you
rocking:
Leprechaun creations
Lunch ideas for your lucky little Leprechauns:
More St. Patrick's Day crafts and activities
Resources for a Saint Patrick's Day Party
Real St. Patrick's Day Parties
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Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with crafts, food and fun for kids
Looking to "go green" for St. Patrick's Day? The other parents will be green with envy
when they see what you have planned for your kids on March 17, 2010! Planning a
Saint Patrick's Day party is a Piece O'Cake. Here are some simple and fun ways to
celebrate St. Patrick's Day with kids:
- Leaping Leprechauns! Trick the kids for St. Patrick's Day by dropping just a drop
green food coloring in bowl before pouring the breakfast cereal (Cornflakes or
Cheerios work best). Call kids in to pour their milk and watch their faces light up
with excitement for the day. They're sure to tell all their friends! Besides, this is
much easier than serving green eggs and ham.
- Shake things up with a shamrock snack dip. Expand use of the Wilton Shamrock-
shaped cake pan to craft a tasty treat with Spinach dip, pictured left. The whole
family will enjoy this appetizer for dinner! Kids will eat their greens!
- Magically delicious things to do with your favorite St. Patrick's Day cereal.
Obviously, you can't start the "top of the morning" without General Mills Lucky
Charms® cereal for St. Patrick's Day with kids. It's a holiday staple! But there's
so much more that you can do when you reserve a box of the adorable
marshmallows for other creations:
- Filter the marshmallows from a box and sprinkle them into the mix of your
favorite rice cereal bars. - Reserve a few to garnish an Irish minty hot chocolate. All it takes is your
favorite hot chocolate mix and a dash of mint extract. - Bag some Leprechaun poop with a free printable St. Patrick's Day label.'
- Make a Lucky Charms® snack mix: Start with 5 cups cereal, add 1-1/2 cup
yogurt-covered raisins, plus 1/2 cup candy-coated peanut butter pieces
and 1/2 cup peanuts. Yum!
Here's how Mom (or Dad) can rock with shamrocks:
When you take three green hearts and put them together it makes a shamrock! Just
add a stem. It's a simple formula that works for cutting fondant, construction paper or
just about anything for your crafts and cooking. Here are some ideas to get you
rocking:
- Goody gumdrops a shamrock is easy to make! Find three gum drops (also called
spice drops) and roll them flat with a rolling pin. Use mini hear shaped cookie
cutters or cut each into a heart and assemble into a shamrock on cupcakes,
cookies and other sweets. Remember to reserve a leftover piece for the stem!
- Go green with veggies. Yeah, right! Well, at least you can cut the center from a
green pepper because it looks like a shamrock. Kids will love a shamrock on
their cheese pizza!
- For goodness sake, make a shamrock shake! Bring back some childhood
memories. Here's the best Shamrock Shake copycat recipe on the Web for
making your own minty version of McDonald's Shamrock shake.
Leprechaun creations
- Leaping leprechauns! Modify the pilgrim's hat cookie by Family Fun and turn it
into a Leprechauns hat. All it takes is Wilton's green candy melts to make this
magical marshmallow modification.
- Tiny treats to tease a leprechaun. When you bake cupcakes tiny enough for the
luckiest of Leprechauns to visit your house on St. Patrick's Day. Beware! These
tiny cupcakes won't last long.
- Dress like a Leprechaun. Print and fold your own paper leprechaun hat.
- Lure a Leprechaun. Set out to trap a leprechaun. More clever ways to catch a
leprechaun from Family Fun.
- Linger around making Leprechaun footprints. Grab a green stamp pad and a large
piece of butcher paper. Make a thumbs up fist and imprint your fist with the
pinky-finger side in a clutch. The outside of your hand will look like the base of a
foot. Next, use your thumb to make the big toe and your fingers to make the
other toes. Now do the same with your other hand until you've made a little
path of tiny footprints. Remember to print your Leprechaun Poop labels!
- Get a Leprechaun name. Leprechauns are elves, aren't they? If you want to
please an elf, then you'll have to get acquainted with one. Friendly up to an elf
by having your kids enter their name into the Elf Name Generator to get their
Leprechaun name.
- Luck of the Scientist? Leprechauns are know to play tricks, so consult Steve
Spangler Science with these green St. Patrick's Day experiments.
Lunch ideas for your lucky little Leprechauns:
- Go for a pot of gold. Ask the local party supply if they have any Witches
cauldron's leftover from the Halloween favors. The little black candy baskets are
ideal for stuffing a pot of chocolate gold coins into your child's lunch.
- Get cracking, cookie! Buy a shamrock cookie cutter for the cookies, but use them
also to cut their favorite sandwiches. The cookie cutter will work well as a
stencil and send little love notes, such as "Irish eyes are smiling at you when
you eat the sandwich."
- Go green with the snacks. Green tortilla chips are made from avocados. You
might also try chips made from green peas, or green apple fruit twists.
More St. Patrick's Day crafts and activities
- Blarney Stone pet rock: Just outside of Cork, Ireland lies Barney Castle, which is
partly built from bluestone as a fortress for battlement. According to Wikipedia,
kissing the Blarney Stone "endows the kisser with the gift of gab." Kissing the
stone is good luck. To make a funny St. Patrick's Day project, enlist a hunt for a
large smooth stone, paint it green, then affix wiggly eyes. Voila! Instant pet
rock.
- Here's a hot potato: in case kids didn't have enough fun with the green cereal
trick for breakfast (top of the page), you can serve potatoes for dinner with a
doll-up of sour cream that you've tinted with green food coloring. Dare the kids
to eat green mashed potatoes (mix the food coloring into the cream before
mashing). Here are more fun ideas with potatoes:
- Craft little potato masterpieces from Marzipan (almond paste) or make
Marzipan potatoes from scratch! - Use mashed potatoes to make old fashioned potato candy.
Resources for a Saint Patrick's Day Party
- "Go green!" with these eco-friendly birthday party ideas.
- See our Tiny Party for ideas to lure a leprechaun with tiny treats.
Real St. Patrick's Day Parties
- Kiss me, I'm Irish party: With tasty treats for kids and adults alike, the hostess
with the mostess put on a St. Patrick's Day party in green and blue.
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