St Patrick's Day fun!!

So for those of you who have read my blog for awhile now may remember my LOVE I have for St. Patrick's Day. With the 17th fast approaching, I have found myself surfing for fun ideas during my mid night feedings.. ha!! I have found some GREAT ideas that I am excited to try and had to share!

Secrets of a Super Mommy posted last year 17 fun things to do for St Patrick's day. If you are going to go to any of these links... go to this one- Holy Smokes..... so many fun ideas!!!

She also has a list of foods you can eat to celebrate the day!

My Delicious Ambiguity also has a lot of great ideas: Lots of cute printable links and crafts/ learning activity for kids!

I LOVE this wreath!! Idea found at The Magic of Ordinary Things

Family fun is always a great resource for anything!!

My son and I may try this today-

and of course some fun Subway art at eighteen25

And for those that didn't catch my St Patrick's traditions and ideas last year here are some links....

Guest post over at Tatertots and Jello

more ideas

Wreath

If you have any fun traditions let me know!! I would be happy to add them to the list!

Celebrating St Patricks Day

Hey everyone.... so if you haven't heard- I am guest posting over at Tatertots and Jello today- and it's ALL about St Patricks Day!!! Click here to check out some of the crafty ideas I posted over there-

So now that we have decorations, shirts and pot's of gold covered- lets move onto traditions!!

Traditions-

As I mentioned before, St Patricks Day was a big deal for us and we have a lot of traditions that I would LOVE to share

Morning-

First, when we would wake up in the morning there would be a trail of shamrock confetti from our beds  to our little Leprechauns filled with treats that were somewhere hidden in the house.

During the night, the leprechaun turned many things green- the milk, toilet water, water, bread etc...

We always had fun running around seeing what he turned green.

My wonderful fun aunt also shares the same love as me for this fun holiday and also has some great ideas... seriously, it is her favorite holiday!!!

When my cousins were young, my aunt would sneak into their rooms at night and paint footprints on their faces and arms and hands (She used a q-tip dipped in green food coloring). It was just her way of starting the day off with excitement!

Attire-

We of course loved getting dressed up in our green- this of course is a must-   Green wigs, blinking head gear/ jewelry, googly glasses, arm socks etc

Basically- the tackier, the better!!

 One fun idea is to collect a bunch of outrageous green hats and have everyone wear them for dinner!!

(here are some we have collected)

It is also a must to use an Irish accent whenever possible- a good CD of irish songs would help with this

Movies

Some great movies are the Gnome Mobile & Darby O Gill and the Little People

Food-

An important aspect of any holiday.

 For breakfast, we love having Lucky Charms with our green milk (sorry I know many don't like the idea of green milk.. including my husband- but its fun and hasn't killed me yet) We also like to make heart shaped waffles to form a shamrock or just plain green pancakes. Other ideas used would be french toast used with green bread, bacon with little leprechaun footprints (food coloring), green juice etc....

Dinner we like to have the traditional corned beef and cabbage. My grandma loves cooking corned beef in the crockpot and adding cabbage, potatoes and carrots and a big onion. Very good.

My family also makes a Lime Green Slush and believe me, it's amazing. Also have you tried Pistachio Pudding Salad... also a perfect festive treat.

I have never tried Irish Soda Bread, but am going to this year. Anyone have any good recipes??

I also made these fun shamrock cupcakes this year to give to neighbors and friends. I saw the idea at Family Fun awhile back

What you do is place paper liners in muffin cups and fill each halfway with the batter. Next take some foil and roll three balls per cupcake and insert them evenly around the space between the liner and the tin

Allow the cupcakes to cool, then remove them from the tin.

Cover each with green frosting. I used a little piece of green licorice for a stem

or another idea is making rainbow cupcakes I made my son a rainbow cake for his birthday last year and it was so fun- sure would be cute for St Patricks Day

SO have I convinced any of you to celebrate St Patricks Day??? Or have I scared you all off by my crazy amount of love for the holiday??? How do you celebrate St Patricks Day??  I would really love to know

St Patty's Wreath

Warning: If you get a little weirded out by people who really love St. Patricks Day, stop reading now!!

For many of you- Valentines Decorations are followed by Easter ones. But not in my house, oh no sir-ee. There is a very important holiday so dear to my heart that is one of my favorites to celebrate in between the two. I really don't have one big reason why I love St. Patricks Day, maybe because of my Irish blood, but I have for as long as I can remember.
My mom and aunts always made a big deal about it and so I guess that is partly the reason. I also love the Irish culture- the music and dancing especially! I remember as a kid searching for a leprechaun with my cousin in my backyard- totally thought they were real and well kinda wish they were.
It was funny, I was having a conversation with my previous manager awhile back informing him of all the good holidays that I had to work the previous year and he totally laughed when St. Patricks was included on that list.... He still makes fun of me for it.
We have some fun traditions, but I will share those later. For now, I wanted to show you my new little wreath. It may look pretty familiar, since it is pretty much a copy of the felt heart wreath (idea room)- however I did make some changes
-It's green and circular instead of a red heart (probably didn't need to write this one)
-I cut out heart shapes instead of circles to give it more of a "Shamrocky" look
-I used two different colors
-Attatched a schnazzy gold ribbon

Get excited, some more ST Patricks Day posts coming your way!!