St Patricks Day Party Idea

A St Patricks Day party idea for a fun kids party!

Have a great Irish celebration without spending too much o' the green...

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St. Patrick's Day Invitations

Simple invitations can be made with green construction paper and a little imagination. Surf the internet for easy shamrock, pot o' gold and rainbow designs. Print them out and trace onto paper. Write party details, insert into envelopes, add a little shamrock confetti and mail.

Shamrock Invitation - Cut 3 heart shapes from green paper and add a green stem. Add these party sayings and party details:

Feelin' Lucky?... Join us for a St. Patrick's Day party!
Leapin' Leprechauns! ... are welcome at our Irish celebration! You are too!

Rainbow Invitation -
Follow the Rainbow... to our Pot O' Gold party!

Pot of Gold Invitation -
A golden opportunity.... to have fun at our St. Patrick's Day party!
Go for the gold... at our St. Patrick's Day party!

St. Patrick's Day tableware

to celebrate the luckiest day of them all!

More Irish plates & tableware

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St. Patrick's Day Decorations

Lots of green and white accents make St. Patrick's Day party decorations easy. Get kids into the act by supplying them with green and white construction paper and shamrock templates in various sizes.

Or, start with this Irish scene setter kit , the perfect way to convert your party room into an Irish scene. Add assorted St. Patrick's Day themed balloons. My favorite is the rainbow mylar balloon.

Then hang these shamrock ceiling swirls from the ceiling of the party room or choose from these assorted Irish decorations. Hang rainbow colored crepe paper streamers from doorways.

Spread a green tablecloth on the party table and set a green glow cup at each place setting. Scatter shamrock confetti along the center of the table. Or, scatter Lucky Charms cereal on your table as edible confetti.

Add a centerpiece made out of a large black pot filled with gold foil-covered chocolate coins. At each place, set a small black pot filled with jellybeans, skittles, or colorful lollipops. Or, start with small clay pots,stencil or sponge paint green shamrocks on them and fill with candy.

Don't forget the Leprechaun's gold! Gold foil-covered chocolate coins or these lucky four leaf clover coins lucky four leaf clover coins can be added to your table decorations as additional confetti.

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St. Patrick's Day Cakes

Rainbow Cake - Bake a round white cake and let cool. Add a few drops of green food coloring to the batters for an interesting effect. Frost the top half sky blue and the bottom half grass green. Make a rainbow by adding layers of different colored skittles or M & Ms candies in a semicircle around the top half of the cake.
On one end of the rainbow, place an Oreo cookie with the top flattened for the pot of gold. Add a half Oreo sideways on top of the first to make the lip of the pot. Sprinkle mini butterscotch morsels above the pot to resemble gold coins.

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St. Patrick's Day Costumes

It's all about "the wearin' of the green!" Deck out your little Irish lassie in this deluxe lime green boa and blinking shamrock beads. A light up green tiara is perfect for Irish princesses.

Boys will love to wear a green leprechaun derby. This Irish magic hat kit contains all you need to dress up to 25 guests.

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St. Patrick's Day Crafts & Activities

Make a Leprechaun House

Every year my kids build a leprechaun house to see what (or whom) might come to visit on St. Patrick's Day. Supply each party guest with a shoe box, colored construction paper, markers, glue, glitter, and whatever craft materials you have handy.

Kids can cut a door and windows and decorate the house to their liking. They can even furnish the inside to make it more inviting. Instruct kids to leave their leprechaun house out the night before St. Patrick's Day. It should be baited with a coin or candy to lure a leprechaun.

They will be so excited to see if the leprechaun visited! They've never caught one yet, but have always found a treat of skittles, chocolate coins or pennies on St. Patti's Day morning.

Make Fool's Gold or Magic Stones

Supply guests with some smooth stones, gold acrylic paint, glitter, fake gems, and craft glue. At the beginning of the party, each guest paints a stone or two gold, then set out to dry. Later on, they can decorate their stones and use them as bait in their leprechaun houses.

St. Patrick�s Day coloring pages:
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/stpatrickscolor/

St. Patrick's Day Printables:
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/patrick/printables.html

Sing a Leprechaun Song

(Sung to "I'm a Little Teapot")
I'm a little leprechaun
Dressed in green,
The tiniest man
That you have ever seen.
If you ever catch me, so it's told,
I'll give you my pot of gold.

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St. Patrick's Day Favors

Leprechaun Loot Bag - Cut circles of green felt and punch holes every inch around the perimeter. Thread a green ribbon through the holes to close. Fill with gold foil covered chocolate coins or these lucky four leaf clover coins Mini black pots make great favors when filled with candy. Nestle a light-up shamrock ring into each one.

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St. Patrick's Day Music

Play traditional Irish music during your party with this Irish party music CD

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St. Patrick's Day Food

Green Glow Drinks

Put a couple of scoops of lime sherbet in a green glow margarita cup . Pour 7Up over the sherbet. Top with whipped cream, green sugar
sprinkles and a green maraschino cherry!

Drop two scoops of mint chocolate chip ice cream into a green glow cup . Pour milk over the top and add a drop or two of green food coloring. Top with whipped cream and green sugar sprinkles.

Tint lemonade green and serve in green glow cups

Shamrock Sugar Cookies - Use a shamrock shaped cookie cutter to make sugar cookies. Frost them green and top with green sugar sprinkles.

Leprechaun Pudding - Pistachio pudding

Green Jello topped with whipped cream and green sugar sprinkles

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