I LOVE The Crafty Crow and I’m going to see which of these fun ideas we can try for St. Patrick’s Day.
Rainbow. to make with the kids. I would put a pot of gold out for the kids to find at the end of a scavenger hunt – how adorable are those???
And Family Fun has three types of leprechaun catchers to make!
It would also be fun to do the Mini Wishing Well – not that it has much to do with St. Patrick’s Day but wishes. It seems to fit! 🙂
Also, we just made these mini chocolate cupcakes though I’ve not frosted them yet. They look delicious and I think we’ll make another batch for St. Patrick’s day and flavor them with peppermint and do green glaze on top instead of white. It made 23 mini cupcakes and we put them in our green print muffin liners because I’m way too lazy to spray and then scrub these mini muffin tins.
Also, those are pantry muffins – no refrigerator items needed (except butter in the glaze.)
We also just pulled the muffin surprises out of the oven (they have jam in the center) and they are the first muffins I’ve tried with no eggs! Another pantry recipe.
C asked if he could make a treasure chest (leaving clues on cut out shamrocks) and lead the kids to a treasure chest with gold coins (some plastic ones we have) and shamrock cookies. Fun!
We also decorated with a shamrock banner across the fireplace and some shamrocks taped to the sunroom door and a little “Lucky me!” cut out I made. I have some Rolos I plan to tape to a shamrock and write, “Luck you! Love, Dad & Mom” on those. We did something similar literally four years ago and the kids remembered and loved it.
We’re also checking out some books on Ireland from the library, and the Rick Steve’s Europe DVD for Ireland. The kids have loved those videos (me, too, though they always make me homesick even though I’ve not lived in or visited Europe in years.)
And I want to make potato candies that look like potatoes (but don’t contain them!)
Update: made the candies!
4 oz cream cheese
1/4 c butter (I did 3 T)
pinch salt
1 t vanilla
Cream all, then stir in:
4 c powdered sugar
2 1/2 c coconut OR
1 c diced pecans & 1 1/2 c coconut
We did the coconut & pecans after toasting both.
Mix all together and chill if needed, or if it’s stiff enough dough then scoop (I used mini ice cream scoop) and shape into potato-ish lump. Then I rolled them in powdered sugar and cinnamon and then sprinkled more cinnamon over the top to make them more brown.
They are so cute!!! And painfully delicious.
I did 16 potatoes, shaped another 6 into an egg form (that I will dip in chocolate for the kids’ baskets) and the others I split into half to make them bite size and rolled in powdered sugar.
SO, SO GOOD! Totally fun treat for St. Patrick’s day or any study of Ireland.
Update: C made a treasure hunt for the kids, with the potato candies at the end. He wrote up clues on paper shamrocks and hid them and they made me smile. (I’m copying them exactly, punctuation and all.)
1. “Bubble dubble toil and trouble Find it at the bath!”
2. “Run! Run! You can run out here, and when you find it you will see this place is really green.”
3. “This room is close to pink.” (The girls’ purple painted room.)
4. “Hay! We eat food in here!” (He said the “hay” was on purpose, horses eat hay.)
5. “Toys are piled high in here and theres a big bed to.”
6. “Hey! You found it good for you! a happy St. Pattricks Day to you!”
Such a sweet big brother. 🙂