Leprechaun Sandwich

Our leprechaun sandwich is a sandwich (any filling is fine) cut out into a circle with a biscuit cutter (you can use a glass if you don't have a biscuit cutter).  The hair and beard are carrots, the eyes are raisins, and the nose is cheese.  The hat is green bell pepper with a strip of the pepper to make the brim and a piece of tortilla chip for the buckle.  The shamrock is cucumber slices.

The Luckiest Leprechaun is about an unexpected friendship between a leprechaun and a dog.  It's funny and unique, and we always enjoy books about friendship.  Check it out and let me know what you think!

Leprechaun Sandwich

Our leprechaun sandwich is a sandwich (any filling is fine) cut out into a circle with a biscuit cutter (you can use a glass if you don't have a biscuit cutter).  The hair and beard are carrots, the eyes are raisins, and the nose is cheese.  The hat is green bell pepper with a strip of the pepper to make the brim and a piece of tortilla chip for the buckle.  The shamrock is cucumber slices.

The Luckiest Leprechaun is about an unexpected friendship between a leprechaun and a dog.  It's funny and unique, and we always enjoy books about friendship.  Check it out and let me know what you think!

Shamrock Cupcakes

It's super easy to make a cute shamrock design to top your cupcakes or cookies.  Three green m&m candies and a tiny green frosting stem make a simple shamrock.  You can use a tiny bit of frosting to stick the candies on top of cookies without frosting the whole cookie.

Check out St. Patrick's Day Countdown by Salina Yoon.  This rhyming book is a good introduction  to St. Patrick's Day for the youngest leprechauns in your house.  I recommend this book for toddlers and preschoolers.

Rainbow Toast

The sun was shining bright today and then it started to rain.  We looked for rainbows, but could not find any, so we made our own.

I poured a tiny bit of milk into three small bowls and added food coloring to make one bowl each of red milk, yellow milk, and blue milk.

The kids used new paint brushes to paint rainbows on their bread.  The yellow mixed with red to make orange, the blue mixed with the yellow to make green, and they painted a little red over the blue to make purple.

I toasted the bread and added a little butter and cinnamon sugar for flavor.

We read A Rainbow of My Own by Don Freeman about a boy who imagines what it would be like to have his own rainbow.

Shamrock Snack

This was originally posted on my other blog, Superheroes and Princesses.  I made these last year and plan on making them again this year as a special St. Patrick's Day snack.  To make them, I used:

• yogurt covered pretzels,
• green Wilton candy melts,
• green icing (missing from the picture - oops!), and
• green decorating sugar

First, I melted the candy melts and used the melted green candy to attach the pretzels to form shamrocks.

Then, I outlined the shamrock shapes with green icing and sprinkled on the decorating sugar.

Our favorite St. Patrick's Day book is The Night Before St. Patrick's Day by Natasha Wing.  It's a fun book about a brother and sister making leprechaun traps to catch a leprechaun.  Since first reading this book a few years ago, we have made our own leprechaun traps each year.  We are already brainstorming for new and improved traps; maybe this will be our lucky year!