Anyone have any grand St. Patty's Day plans? I guess it doesn't necessarily have to be grand - anyone have any ideas or plans at all? Audrey (and Adam, to some degree) is at the age where it's fun to make all holidays special - but I'm not always so adept at that. If anyone has any ideas for activities, crafts, meals or snacks that would be fun - I'm all ears!
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Some friends of mine, many years ago, told me of their Mom's tradition, to bake some type of treat---like muffins, and put money in them of different denominations. They all got pretty excited to see who would get the $100 bill, who would get nothing, who would get $1, etc. This would be really fun for kids on a smaller scale. I am not really sure how she baked them or kept the money from getting gross.
I liked your friend Laura's idea. Two ideas I've had or seen: 1. Serve a green dinner. I am excited about this b/c last year, I tried making corned beef and cabbage from the Celebrations cookbook, and it was a nasty disaster. On top of that, I was prego, and the house stunk. Yuck! So, this year, I'm going for a green dinner ... pesto with spinach noodles, green salad, broccoli, and maybe pistachio pudding for dessert.
2. When I was in elementary school, we had an overachieving room mother one year who made little leprechaun baskets with a couple of chocolate coins and some stickers in each basket. For the baskets she used green strawberry pint baskets, but I think those could be hard to find. Anyway, the other room mother took us on a walk to find a leprechaun, and while we were gone, they put a basket on each desk. Adapted for home, you could put the baskets on your back porch before your walk. Then go on your walk, looking for leprechauns, and then come home and tell the kids to check all of the doors to see if the leprechaun left them anything since he wouldn't be able to get in the house. Then they'd find them. :)
A third idea just came to me: Eat lucky charms in the morning.
A fourth idea: Tell the kids that you're going to pretend to be leprechauns and deliver surprise treats to friends and neighbors ... could do that for FHE.
Sorry for the long post.
I saw some ideas at http://tipjunkie.blogspot.com/
some looked pretty cute! Enjoy!
oh i love tipjunkie! i BOUGHT green cookies, does that sound exciting or what?!
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