St. Patrick's Day Fun

by Lauri Griffin | More from this Blogger

15 Mar 2008 03:52 PM

St. Patrick's Day is Monday. Here are some fun ideas for celebrating.

Make a rainbow with paint or crayons. You can paint them with any colors, or be scientifically accurate. I still remember a teacher's lesson of ROYGBIV for memorizing the color spectrum of a rainbow. If you have tissue paper in all the rainbow colors you can make a rainbow on your window. Cut little bits of the paper and stick on a misted window. This looks really pretty with the sun streaming in. The paper will stick to the damp window. Tissue paper does fade pretty quickly in direct sunlight, so in a few days your rainbow won't be quite so bright. The paper comes off easily to clear the way for spring views or other window designs.

It's also really fun to use a prism to project rainbows on the wall. When my boys were younger they loved to chase after the rainbows.

You can create a rainbow snack for them with tomatoes or strawberries, oranges or carrots, peaches, lettuce or zucchini, and blueberries. Gumdrops or other candies work for this too, but aren't quite so healthful.

Have a hunt through the house for your own pot of gold. This is a great color lesson for preschoolers, but it is fun for older kids too. Start with planting a clue under something red that leads to a clue under something orange, then yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. (I won't tell if you cheat and just do blue and purple.) The last clue can lead to a bowl of treats.

Bake Irish Soda bread or other fun treats.

Make a trap for a leprechaun, read about how my boys make theirs and what treats they find here.

St. Patrick's Day is a fun holiday, even if you aren't Irish!

Also See:

Fit for St. Patty: Irish Lamb Stew with Irish Soda Bread St. Patrick's Day - How to Trap a Leprechaun

St. Patrick's Day Fun Prisms and Rainbows

The Importance of Family Traditions

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Lauri lives in Colorado with her husband and three sons. Amidst all the laundry and packing of lunches, she tries to keep parenting fun.

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