We love tricking the girls, I know that it might be wrong…but it feels so good!
Husband has even gone so far as to convince Raine that I’ve gone back to primary school and just passed Kindergarten all over again. So every time I go to a school meeting I have to tell her I’m going to my class.
Every year on St.Patricks day we go to great lengths to trick our children into believing that Leprechauns visit our home in the middle of the night, if they wear green to bed. They love the fact that Leprechauns cause so much mischief and leave them candy. So now it’s become this huge thing that Raine thinks about all year because she is determined to catch a Leprechaun in the act.
This year Raine has devised a plan with Husband the involves lots of food that leprechauns go crazy for, and then somehow having a trigger button which will then snap a picture of the unsuspecting leprechaun. This is going to take a fantastic photoshop editing job on HUSBANDS part. She has given up on actually catching a leprechaun to lead her to their gold , she points out that they are magic, they would just disappear!
So I’ve got my chocolate coins ready to go, some bracelets that the leprechauns will accidentally leave and some stickers to gift, but I wanted to add some new tricky ideas. Here are a collection of ideas I gathered from Pinterest that I’m hoping to put into action:
1. Leprechaun Ears that we made a couple years back. This year I want to try and make them with a headband.
2. Green toilet water and other fun ideas at Six Silly Seeleys.
3. A “Lucky” Breakfast at Thoughtfully Simple, pretty lucky to be having a sugary breakfast! Green milk + Lucky Charms.
4. Read Clever Tom and the Leprechaun
5. Layered Rainbow Pudding at Make and Takes. I’m thinking I will use yogurt and somehow make sparkly gold granola using a similar method as THIS tutorial, sub sugar for salt.
6. Make sure we make our traditonal leprechaun traps in hopes of catching a leprechaun to lead us to their pot of gold.
7. Show the girls how the tricky leprechauns turned the water in Chicago GREEN!
8. This cool FREE printable for home decore from Madigan Made.
9. St. Patricks Day Potion at Corduroy Dreams. I WANT to do this…but I’m also unsure if Raine will actually believe me. She’s at the age that doing outrageous stuff like this is risky, so we’ll see how this plays out.
Anyone else of St.Patricks Day traditions with your kids? Please share.
Want to read more about our St.Patricks Day tradition? HERE is a post from St.Patricks Day 2010.
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We always try and go big on this Holiday too! We make traps, turn the toilet bowl water green (they love it, but are so sad that it only lasts through one flushing! The first year they cried when the water didn’t come back green…), the leprechaun always leaves them a box of Lucky Charms and a pot of ‘gold’ candy. For the milk, we use to set the table the night before so their cups were already on the table. Then we’d add a few drops of green food coloring to their cups so that, when pouring the white milk into their cups, it would ‘magically’ turn green. The leprechaun also makes a mess and leaves his footprints wherever he plays tricks. This year we’re hoping to have the kids go on a rainbow scavenger hunt for the treasure, instead of having it on the table for them. As for food, we have gotten away from green food in the past few years, to avoid the added dyes. Instead we’ve embraced my Irish Heritage and now make more traditional Irish meals on St. Paddy’s day. So an Irish breakfast, grilled cheese with Irish cheese (not traditional, but hey…) and a green smoothie (also not traditional, but naturally green!), and Irish stew with soda bread. It’s amazing to me what goes into one day to make it so memorable for the kids!! But it’s so fun to see their faces and feel their excitement!