St. Patrick’s Day is a way to celebrate spring and all things green. Even if you are not Irish, celebrating the holiday is a way to add fun and opportunities to teach kids about another culture and another country. So here are five St. Patrick’s Day ideas that you can use to celebrate with your kids!

St. Patricks Day Ideas

Pick up a book! One book to consider is the The Night Before St. Patrick’s Day, where two children set traps to catch a leprechaun. When they wake the next morning, they’re shocked to find that they caught one!

Speaking of Leprechaun traps, this is a great post on how to set one. Kids will have fun setting up traps the night before and in the morning seeing gold coins left behind. Other fun ways to add green to the day, is putting green food coloring in the potty, making green milk with food coloring, and having shamrock napkins instead of the every day white ones.

Head to the dollar stores to pick up inexpensive green beads and Irish-themed socks that the kids can wear for the day. Another thing they can wear is something simple you can make. Consider giving the girls a good luck headband or for the boys, a good luck boutonnière that they can wear on St. Patrick’s Day for the “Luck o’the Irish.” Martha Stewart has an easy template to make them. All you need is green felt, green thread, and a store bought plain headband or safety pin.

Similar to wedding cakes that have trinkets inside for good luck, do something similar at home for a Saint Patrick’s Day treat. Bake a cake, tucking in charms before you bake, then serve. The kids loving seeing what they get! Just make sure the charms are safe. If you have young kids, skin the cake concept, and give surprise balls. Scrunch crepe paper into a golf-ball size, then place a charm on top, then wrap a couple of layers of additional crepe paper around the ball. Do it again, and again, until you get a softball sized surprise ball! Tie it with twine and an Irish Blessing. You can find trinkets at party supply stores.

And to close this post today, here is an excerpt from an Irish Blessing:

“…And as you walk the roads,
May you always have a kind word
for those you meet.”

About the author

Charlene DeLoach

Charlene DeLoach

Charlene DeLoach is a contributing editor at The Toy Insider where she primarily covers parenting topics. Charlene has been featured in print and on television more than 100 times. Before joining The Toy Insider, Charlene was an attorney, real estate broker, and interior decorator. In her current life, she has vowed to get grownups using toys as decor and to teach parents and toy companies to think outside the toy box at her websites playroomchronicles.com and totaltoycreative.com. Follow Charlene on Instagram where you'll see that her account is mostly dedicated to pics of her cute dogs, kids, and fun finds.

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