Since green beer and corned beef aren't the most kid-friendly holiday treats, here's how we will celebrate the luck o' the Irish at our house this year.
1. Early next week, we will decorate a leprechaun box. This will be an empty shoe box covered with green paper and shamrock stickers and gold glitter. The legend says that if you leave the box open under the moon on St. Paddy's Eve, the leprechauns must fill it with treasure (fake gold coins, candy, small toys). But because they are sneaky little stinkers, they hide the box. If you find the treasure before sundown on St. Patrick's Day, you get to keep it. If you don't find it, the leprechauns get it back. So fun!
2. For breakfast, the kids will be thrilled to see that those sneaky leprechauns turned our milk green (green food coloring).
3. For a snack, we will shape refrigerator breadstick dough into shamrocks (three hearts joined in the middle with a stem) and sprinkle them with lots of green sugar and a little cinnamon.
4. As a bonus, I might dip Ken doll shoes in washable green paint and leave tiny footprints on our hardwood floors. It is also fun to make little messes in the house for the kids to find when they wake up - overturned chairs, grass clippings, toys dumped out, etc. Blame the leprechauns. This adds some magic and mystery to the holiday.
I got most of these ideas from Family Fun magazine when Avery was a toddler. http://familyfun.go.com/st-patricks-day/
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