St. Patrick's Day Part 2 - Food, Family, Crafts & Fun

We had a fun filled St. Patrick's Day - finding gold, cleaning up after the messy leprechauns, bowling, crafts and dinner out on the town! Phew, I am tired just writing about it but maybe that's the "green" drinks talking :)

Either way it was a great day & I am happy to share some of the highlights with you:

Books:
St. Patrick's Day by Gail Gibbons
It's St. Patrick's Day  by Rebecca Gomez

Breakfast - Shamrock Pancakes I opted not to make them green as my food coloring supply was depleted by our cupcakes yesterday! It would have been a cute touch though.

Crafts

Handprint Leprechauns - if you've been around a bit you must have noticed that I love handprint art - I try to do something for every holiday - such a great keepsake!

What You Need:
Background paper - I used white cardstock for durability
Green paint
Orange Paint
Tan/Beige Paint
wiggly eyes
pom pom balls
glue

What To Do:
Step 1: paint area across thumb and bottom of palm green - this will be the hat
Step 2: paint middle of palm beige - this will be the face
Step 3 - paint fingers and area right above orange - this will be beard

Result will look like below oce pressed onto paper:

Step 4: add wiggly eyes and pom pom nose - my youngest also added one to the hat

Behold your completed handprint leprechauns:

Easy Irish Flag

What You Need:
white paper
green crayon
orange crayon

What To Do:
1. Fold white paper into thirds and color 1 side green, leave middle white & color opposite side orange

 Behold your simple Flag of Ireland

There were so many amazing & fun crafts & activities we simply did not get to but they are being filed away for next year! :)

How did you spend your St. Patrick's Day?

Bern

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Darn, Those Messy Leprechauns - They Struck Again!

It is quite well known that leprechauns are tricky, sneaky & messy lil guys. So it was no suprise that they wreaked havoc on our house last night while we all slept peacefully! Those sneaky tricksters!

Here's a peek at what my Lil Lassies found this morning in their room when they opened their eyes!

So, what do you do when you spy a trail of gold?

You follow it & collect it of course!

YAY! We are rich Mommy!

Oh, NO! The Leprechauns struck in our playroom too! Those tricksters!

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2011!



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Here's a look back at St. Paddy's Day 2010! It was by far my favorite to date - look at these faces! Priceless!

Oh, NO! What happened here?

My Stuff! I do not like this one bit!

So, what do you do when a leprechaun has strewn all your things across the floor - You ANGRILY & HASTILY clean it up of course!

Then you sulk ........ 

(just look at these sad faces - priceless!) 

until Mommy makes it all better & makes you laugh! 

St. Patrick's Day 2010

Happy St. patrick's Day to you all! May you have lots of luck, love & good fortune today & everyday!

Check out our St. Patrick's Day Activities!

Bern

St. Patricks Day - Pt. 1 Tricky Leprechauns, Yummy Snacks, Crafts & More

I love celebrating holidays with my girls.  It is a chance to introduce them to all the fun things that I had growing up. In this case (for St. Patricks Day) that would be tricky lepechauns, pots of gold at the end of the rainbow, lucky four leaf clovers, shamrocks, etc...

It so much fun to experience this all anew through their eyes! I think it might be even better than being on the receiving end when I was growing up.

Today we had fun with crafts, read some books and baked green cupcakes.

Tonight the sneaky & ever so tricky "leprechaun" struck the Lil Divas bedroom and playroom while they slept peacefully. He obviously made a huge mess in pursuit of gold or other shiny objects and of course left a trail of gold coins behind him in his haste. :)

All they talked about was staying awake to catch one of those sneaky leprechauns, lol!

Here's a peek at our Leprechaun Mess - a tradition I started last year with the Lil Divas!

Here's what we did today:

Books:
The Night Before St. Patrick's Day - Natasha Wing
That's What Leprechauns Do - Eve Bunting

Snacks - Green St. Patty's Day Cupcakes

Use your regular yellow cupcake recipe and just add green food coloring to liking. We did the same with the (buttercream) icing. An easy & festive snack!

Crafts: Tissue Paper Shamrocks (inspiration for this craft came from Gummy Lump Blog)

What You Need:
Shamrock template (from Kidzone)
green tissue paper (we used both light & dark green)
glue
background paper

What to Do:
Prep: cut green tissue paper into squares - I cut lots & we used lots so be sure to have plenty

1. Cut out the shamrock template and glue onto background paper

2. Add glue, one section at a time 

3. Crumble tissue paper and stick on - encourage packing them closely together (the less white you see the better it looks)

4. Behold your Tissue Paper Shamrock

Learning Fun:

** I have to give credit to Michelle from Musings of Me for a lot of these wonderful activities which she provided in her FREE printable St. Patrick's Day Unit - what an amazing resource this has been!**

Lucky Charms Graphing


Lucky Charms Graph Template from 2 Teaching Mommies

Be sure to take the time to explain how the graph works and go over the results! Ask how many of each, which had the most, least, etc... Then enjoy the snack!

 

Shamrock Trace, Color Cut - I used the same template used above in the tissue paper craft for this

First, I had the Oldest Diva trace the outline

Then, she colored it to her liking

Finally, she cut it out

Scissor Skills Practice - The youngest Diva worked on this cutting practice from the unit mentioned above

St. Patrick's Day Size Sort (also from the unit mentioned above)

Sorting Leprechauns by Large, Medium & Small

Sorting Bears from Largest to Smallest

Pre-Writing Practice (see above unit for sheets)

ABC Writing Practice (great sheets I turned into a booklet from the Free unit)