Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2017! (Siobhan)

~Happy Saint Patrick's Day~

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone! I know this post is a little late, but hopefully it will give you some good recipe/craft ideas for next year 😉 We had a lot of fun making yummy treats and learning about Saint Patrick through some fun activities.

First we learned about Saint Patrick. I just found a brief summary of his life online. Brandan and Shaila did a coloring page while they listened, and Connor filled out a crossword puzzle which had questions about Saint Patrick's life.

Click here to print out the Saint Patrick's Day crossword puzzle

Click here to print out the Complete the Leprechaun coloring page

Next I had the kids glue tissue paper squares onto a shamrock template to make a mosaic.

The kids' favorite Saint Patrick's Day craft is this leaping leprechaun. I printed and cut out the printable, and they colored it and put it together with brads.

Click here to print out the Leaping Leprechaun printable

Our last craft was this Heart Shamrock. We made the hearts out of green construction paper and stapled them together. You can click here to see our Valentine's Day Heart Chain tutorial. It shows you how to make the hearts. They are so easy and are a lot of fun to make!

(Baxter took advantage of the fact that I was distracted with the crafts to unload Mom's spice cabinet!)

I didn't get great pictures of the food, but it tasted delicious! For lunch we had a homemade 'green' pizza, with pesto, artichokes, sundried tomatoes, and asiago cheese.

 For dinner we had corned beef, cabbage soup, and homemade honey wheat bread.

Click here for our Rustic Irish Cabbage and Potato Soup recipe printable

Click here for our Slow Cooker Dijon Corned Beef recipe printable

Click here for our Simple Honey Whole Wheat Bread recipe printable

Click here for our Shamrock Shake recipe printable

Click here for our Classic Mint Chocolate Brownies recipe printable

We had shamrock shakes on Friday, and on Sunday I made some mint chocolate brownies (photo courtesy of Sally's Baking) which we served with mint chip icecream. Both are wonderful Saint Patrick's Day desserts!
Click here to see our 2014 Saint Patrick's Day post
Click here to see our 2015 Saint Patrick's Day post
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2015!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Today we had a fun day yummy food and fun crafts that we'd like to share with you.

First, here are some fun facts about Saint Patrick... 

Next we did some crafts...

 I printed out this Pot of Gold Color By Number for Filia, but Tert ended up enjoying it too.

Next Tert and Filia did a Complete the Leprechaun Page

 Tert absolutely loved the Valentine Heart Chains Craft we did last month (click link to see how to make the hearts) so he was really excited when I found this Heart Shamrock Craft. 

 Next we did a really fun, easy Coffee Filter Shamrock Craft. 

First, we colored the coffee filters with different shades of green...

Then we sprayed the coffee filters with a bit of water...

 Then we let them dry and made them into shamrock shapes.

 It was a very windy day today, but we all wanted to get out for some sunshine. The kids had a lot of fun jumping in puddles. Here are some action shots I took...

 Mom made an incredible Saint Patrick's Day meal. 

 Slow Cooker Corned Beef

 Rustic Irish Potato and Cabbage Soup

And for dessert...Shamrock Shakes!

 Megan's Shamrock Shake Recipe: 1/2 Gallon Gifford's Vanilla Icecream, 12 drops green food coloring, 1 T pure mint extract, 2 C. whole milk, 1 C, unsweetened almond milk

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!