Okay...so that's kind of a lot of stuff to do in one day. To help you get started on the celebration, Mama has picked her favorite two St. Patrick's Day crafts that are super easy and fun. Oh, and a link to an easy recipe for Irish Soda Bread with Raisins...for a tasty and healthy St. Patty's snack.
Start out by making the Irish Soda Bread with the kids then by the time you finish the crafts, the bread is almost ready to eat.
Craft #1
Next step to FUN, make Four Leaf Clover Stamps out of potatoes. Take a large size potato and cut in half. Then either free-hand or using a cookie cutter, take one half and cut out a heart shape. Dip the stamp in green paint and make your clovers by connecting four hearts together to shape the clover. It's easy and fun. This can actually be done for any holiday just using your imagination to create different shapes in the potatoes.
Craft #2
Once you hang up your clover artwork to dry, it's time to make a Leprechaun Trap! They are very sneaky and hard to catch so be creative. Use anything you have around the house like cardboard boxes, nets, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, tinfoil, empty yogurt containers, and paper, to get started on your design. Then start decorating and putting together the trap using your gathered materials. Leprechauns are attracted to green so use green glitter, stickers and pens to draw clovers and other designs like rainbows on your trap. Leprechauns are greedy little creatures so for bait put out coins or maybe some Lucky Charms cereal. Once it's done, set it in a secret place and look for the trail of glitter the little Leprechaun will leave behind...
Mama will leave you with this Irish blessing because on St. Patrick's Day...we're all a little bit Irish!
May you always have
Walls for the winds,
A roof for the rain,
Tea beside the fire,
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all your heart might desire!
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