When you come from a city that is so into a particular holiday, it dyes its river green, the spirit of St. Patrick's Day kinda rubs off on you. Though we don't do the whole drinking or corned beef and cabbage thing, we are into any excuse to try new milkshake recipes, wear fun clothes, celebrate rainbows and sneaky leprechauns and learn about a pretty cool missionary. So that was what we did this St. Patrick's Day, which was fun to have on a Saturday since it give me a whole day of at-home activities to plan! (Plan, or steal from Pinterest, same difference...)
We did treat ourselves to the real thing on Monday's day off and that served well to compare how this homemade Shamrock Shake recipe stood up to the real thing (anything to help the cause of research!). It was really really close! And we even made ours with frozen yogurt and skim milk, so it was actually good for us! (Right? :)
I also put together this little treasure hunt using rainbow colored shamrock clues. The girls loved searching around the house for clues hidden by items of matching color and were able to replay it over and over throughout the day. A pot (small jar) of gold (gold wrapped butter toffee candies) waited for them at the end.
When Ella told me about the havoc a sneaky leprechaun wreaked on her classroom yesterday (chairs turned over, papers strewn about, a note on the board), we had the idea to make little leprechaun traps to prevent the same thing from happening to their bedroom. You know these girls, Ella especially, an invitation to unload glitter, cans and boxes, popsicle sticks and other random supplies from the craft closet was met with enthusiasm!
We spent a little time reminding ourselves about a boy named Maywin Socket, who grew up to be a persistent missionary named St. Patrick, teaching others about the Trinity. And then we ended the day's celebration of the Irish with a grand Italian feast at the youth group's spaghetti supper fundraiser!
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