Saint Patricks Day

St. Patricks Day started out with more leprechaun mischief. Apparently one of those crafty little people snuck into our home and covered us all with stickers while we slept. The leprechaunaun turned our toilet water and milk green. Cutie Pie wanted to set up a leprechaun trap immediately. She wanted her vengeance. And I can't say that I blame her. She had an elaborate plan involving ice cream, chocolate coins, freezing the leprechaun, then setting the leprechaun encased in an ice block down the river. But, I was able to talk some sense into her (at least temporarily) by bribing her with shamrock pancakes, and green eggs. The green eggs were not popular with my kids. I have no idea why;)

 We did a St. Patricks day snake round up. The kids worked together (for the most part).

 We did some green pepper shamrock painting.

You can't trust a leprechaun

Cutie Pie was still shook up about the green milk on Friday. She went to school and told her friends all about the leprechaun turning our milk green. She said her friend Billy said that we need to throw the green milk away:D

Our Saint Patrick's Day Activities & Crafts

Cutie Pies rainbow treasure

 We did lots and lots of coloring....

We also made streamers. But, we didn't really use them the way they were intended.

The yard was covered in neck tie snakes for our snake banishment. Big Dog collected the most. But, he wasn't happy while he did it. He wanted to ride his scooter. But, nooooooo. His mean mom and dad had to make him pick up ties that they left all over the yard. Doesn't seem fair at all, does it?

 Big Dog and GH thought that dads necktie should be thrown in the basket too. I wish they would have. Captain Awesome looks ridiculous;D That's why I love him:D

Yesterday we made this treat. It was an all green food muffin tin snack. The apple really doesn't belong. But, GH always seems to be carrying an apple around. So it managed to get in the picture.

Cutie Pie thought it was funny that a leprechaun made the toilet water green. She did not like it when she found out that he made the milk green. She completely lost it and screamed, "I want that lephracaun out of my house right now!" Needless to say Cutie Pie didn't appreciate the jokes. She refused to drink the green milk and we had to open another gallon. She did however eat the green eggs and green shamrock pancakes.

Cutie Pie did a St. Patricks Day writing assignment.

She also sorted Lucky Charms.

Then the kiddos did a St. Patricks Day sticker matching activity.

We did an indoor snake hunt with the foam snakes from last year. GH was pumped.

We worked on on Leprechaun trap. We didn't catch a leprechaun this year:( But, Sgt. Jiri, one of the stuffed animals did get caught in the trap.

I actually made the Irish flag veggie tray this year. So woohoo for me.

We made glitter three leaf clovers.

Big Dog made shamrock at school. But, I'm adding it to this post because I like it:)

The kids followed a path of shamrocks to find a pot filled with chocolate gold coins. Cutie Pie wanted to do this again. But, we ran out of chocolate gold coins.

We also read St. Patrick's Day by Gail Gibbons. Then I had Cutie Pie do a Saint Patricks word find that I made. It's a small word find. But, just perfect for Cutie Pie.

Saint Patricks Day Snake Round-Up

Last year I used foam sheets to make snakes for the St. Patricks snake round up. This year I decided to combine ideas that I saw on this post on Catholic Icing.

I made 66 suit tie snakes for less than five dollars. Hooray! I didn't fill them with stuffing. That in itself saved a lot of money:D I got all the ties at the thrift store bag sale. Then I bought two packages of googly eyes. And I cut up an old red fleece blanket to make the tongues.

The kiddos are gonna love these:)