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Thursday, March 17, 2011

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! :)

Book:

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

Bern

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6 comments:

  1. Kelly @livingcraftilyeverafterMarch 18, 2011 at 12:56 PM

    Love all these ideas! How fun! I am now your newest follower! Found you through Design it Chic! Would love for you to stop by! I have 2 little divas as well :)

    Kelly

    livingcraftilyeverafter.blogpost.com

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  2. my3littlebirdsMarch 18, 2011 at 1:18 PM

    Thank you so much for visiting my3littlebirds! I'm going to be hosting my first link party next week and would love for you to play along- you're so creative! And those shamrock pancakes...why didn't I think of that? Your little girls are very lucky to have such a fun mama.

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  3. VeronikaMarch 18, 2011 at 1:51 PM

    Such cuties! Love your clover pancakes, so cute!
    We had clover pb&j's!

    Happy Friday!!

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  4. Jackie HigginsMarch 18, 2011 at 2:14 PM

    Well, I did add the green food coloring to my pancakes and my boys looked at me like, "Are you kidding? We are not eating green food." Maybe they are too young for that- they are only 1 and 2.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 18, 2011 at 3:02 PM

    JDaniel says he now wants shamrock pancakes too.

    Thanks for linking to Read.Explore.Learn.

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