St Patrick’s Day, An Irish Themed Day

We decided to celebrate St Patricks day by learning all about Ireland…. Here’s how we did it….

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We used empty baby food jars to make our St Patricks Day treats. We simply filled with Rolos & Skittles (gold & rainbow) & topped with marshmallows (a cloud)…. You could replace the skittles with smarties & serve as a bedtime treat with hot chocolate.

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We made some marshmallows dipped in chocolate for St Patricks day, we melted the chocolate and added a few drops of green food colouring, we then cut out some shamrock using green paper which we sticky taped to cocktail sticks, we finished off with a packet of smarties and some gold chocolate coins (you could use Rolos)

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We used a pepper cut in half to print shamrock patterns…

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We did a simple shamrock hunt in the woods & then found the gold at the end of the rainbow…

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We went searching for Shamrock, we found Clover which is in the same family.

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We made some Irish flags for our scene setting.

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We used a roll of rainbow wrapping paper to make our rainbow over the table and we cut out white clouds…

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We used an old bottle that we filled with lime milkshake for breakfast..

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For breakfast we had a fruit rainbow with yoghurt clouds and a shortbread biscuit.

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We made place settings with cardboard.

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We bought some traditional Irish food.

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We made Irish stew..

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We had our own yummy rainbow…

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We looked at our globe to find out where Ireland is…

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‘Lucky scratch cards’ I drew a design on a piece of card, I then mixed a few drops of washing up liquid with a small amount of silver acrylic paint. I covered the part of the scratch card design I wanted to be scratched with sticky tape and then painted over it, once dry our scratch cards were ready to try our luck

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To finish our day us adults had a traditional taste of Ireland 🙂

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