Your little leprechauns will love making and wearing this costume we designed for our local parenting magazine Raising Arizona Kids. Made from construction paper and string, you’ll have a real, live leprechaun on your hands in a matter of minutes, but watch out, I hear they’re tricky folks.
St. Patrick’s Day is among my favorite holidays. Lots of lucky green, crazy leprechaun trickery, pretty rainbows and precious gold—what’s not to love? So, let’s bring on the St. Patrick’s Day ideas, right? When a new holiday approaches, decorating is always first on the agenda. You, too? How about a LUCKY YOU St. Patrick’s Day…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I thought today would be a good day for a reminder to take some time to smell the roses clover. Spring is almost here, and your kids are probably dying to get outside. Wouldn’t today be a great day to ditch those baskets of laundry, piles of dishes or whatever else…
My mother raised seven children, including one set of twins, so she’s clearly had her fair share of Supermom Moments. On Sunday our family gathered at mom’s house for her annual corned beef and cabbage dinner. My girls helped her assemble what I think is one of the most clever St. Patrick’s Day centerpieces I’ve…
This week is Spring Break, which was a bit of a bummer to my oldest who was looking forward to wearing her St. Patty’s Day finest to school. As a consolation I decided to have the girls help me make a little gift to deliver to our neighbors on Thursday. This way someone will get…
A couple nights ago as I was tucking Liam in bed, he had a few requests for the next day (and I’m not making this up). He suggested we play with play dough and then make lucky St. Patrick’s Day presents for his school friends. Liam NEVER requests to craft, so I stayed up late…
With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, I set out to solidify our Irish dinner menu for next week. Since my oldest is now four, I feel somewhat obligated (and totally excited) to make an American Irish meal on the 17th. In years past I’ve taken the simple approach and made something green for…
I love making lollipops. Growing up my mom and I would make them at least every Valentine’s Day. She had the coolest metal molds that work so much better than any other candy mold I’ve ever seen. I found the same sucker molds once at a craft store in Idaho when I was in college…
I was noticing that I really don’t have many St. Patrick’s Day decorations, and after shopping a couple of my favorite decor and craft stores it is pretty clear to me why my stash is so lean — there just aren’t many St. Patrick’s Day decorations out there that I love. I wanted something modern…
With St. Patrick’s Day in a few weeks, my oldest daughter is incredibly curious about leprechauns. Attalie told me she wanted to do some “research” on leprechauns so we took a trip to the library to see what books we could find. Either there aren’t a lot of St. Patrick’s Day books or all the…
