Saturday, March 12, 2011

St. Patrick's Day

OK...Next Kids Dinner Theme is Tuesday, March 15th. Theme is St. Patrick's Day. Lots of ideas here!

Main Course:
Green Eggs & Ham
Lucky Charms Cereal


Other Foods:
Shamrock Trail Mix Ideas: Green Froot Loops or Lucky Charm Cereal, Andes Mint Candies (cut in 1/2), Green Chocolate Covered Pretzels, Green Jelly Beans, Green Candies (like M&M's)
Celery - Ants on a log
Pickles
Ham Roll-ups with Pickles - dye the cream cheese green
Colored Popcorn - color by adding green colored chocolate over the top or by popping 3/4 cup with 1/4 cup sugar, 2 TBL olive oil & several drops of green food coloring (this makes the sugar melt & stick to the kernals - similar to a carmel corn - picture below). Or purchase food coloring powder, or add food coloring into your butter.


Crafts Ideas:
Dye noodles & make Shamrock necklaces.
Go to this website: http://www.allkidsnetwork.com/crafts/st-patricks-day/st-patricks-day-pasta-necklace.asp (Dying the noodles a couple days prior is needed)
Coloring Pages (these can be found all over the internet & printed)
Kids can make 4 leaf clovers with their hands by dipping in paint & displaying each hand as one petal of the clover. (I have tons of paper & paints)
Kids can paint rainbows with pots of gold at the end.
Make Irish Hats

Movies:
Chip 'N Dales Rescue Rangers - The Last Leprechaun movie...found on Series 2.

WEAR GREEN!!

Let me know what you want to bring, so we don't duplicate & have a variety of foods/crafts for the kids.

1 comment:

  1. Gina has a copy of the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers "The Last Leprechaun" movie.

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