A Leprechaun and a Rainbow

I hope you all had a fun and happy St. Patrick's Day.  Honestly, we didn't do much to celebrate. In fact, neither of the children made a leprechaun trap or even wore green!  However, both of the children were home from school today (one was under the weather and one had a scheduled teacher work day) so I made them a leprechaun and rainbow lunch.  The leprechaun is a spinach tortilla cut out to resemble a hat and filled with cheese.  His face is a whole wheat tortilla cut in a circle and filled with cheese.  Once both parts were cooked, I put them together, made a cheese beard and broiled it in the oven for just long enough to melt the cheese.  I used a food marker to make the eyes.  He turned out so cute!  And why do children like anything on a stick?  It made Harris so happy to have a rainbow fruit kebob!

*I originally saw the leprechaun here and her instructions are a lot more precise than mine!

A Pot of Gold- Cookies and Milk

For a St. Patrick's Day treat I made rainbow cookies and attached them to a pot of gold!  The gold was actually milk tinted with a bit of yellow food coloring and the pot was a cauldron that had come filled with cold coins (that I used for the rainbow snack).  I got the idea for rainbow cookies hanging on a cup from the cookie shop- whose cookies sure did look a whole lot neater than mine.

In the interest of full disclosure I should mention that my first batch of cookies really were entirely too soft to use, and we had to ditch the treat for St. Patrick's day and instead enjoyed it the day after.  I cooked the rest of the cookies for longer and they turned out harder, though still not really sturdy.  I think next time I would stick with my regular sugar cookie dough recipe.

I think these little treats would look so cute lined up for a St. Patrick's day party!

St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  We had a festive day that included leprechaun catching (unsuccessfully), wearing of green, munching on rainbow snacks and eating a green dinner!

Harris and Grace both decided last minute that they would build a leprechaun trap.  Harris was very disappointed that his alarm didn't sound and catch the sneaky little guy!  I was disappointed that they left muddy footprints in my windowsill- at least they left behind some gold nuggets.

Both children paid special attention to how they dressed for the day.  Graced wore a rainbow and Harris channeled a leprechaun.  It was all his own doing, I promise!  I chuckled almost every time I looked at him (those were his Willy Wonky pants from Halloween!).  

After school, the children had a rainbow snack and green milk.  I got the printable from here via Sherri.

For dinner, we had split pea soup (delicious) and brown soda bread (also delicious).  The bread recipe came from my friend Sonja so I felt very authentic!  

I would like to be able to share a treat with you that I had planned that I just knew was going to be so cute.  Unfortunately, we had a baking malfunction and will have to try again tomorrow even though the day will have passed- though I'm pretty sure that rainbows should be for every day!

St. Patrick's Day

This morning we awoke to find that Leprechauns had been up to mischief while we slept! Apparently they snuck in a window and came upstairs to play a few tricks on us- they left their muddy bootprints behind! They even tried to take our family game night trophy for the gold, but I guess they couldn't get it out the window (either that or they figured out it was plastic!). The Leprechauns turned a few things upside down in the children's rooms and drew shamrocks on them and Bryce. They even drew a green mustache on me! That was a sight to wake up to I'm sure!

The children ate Lucky Charms for breakfast. This is really the only time of the year that they have a sugary cereal so it was a treat for them.

And of course we all wore something green!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!