St Patrick's Day

Happy St Patrick's Day to everyone!

Any excuse for pancakes right? Why not green ones for St Patrick's Day! The boys had great fun trying to flip the pancakes themselves and even more fun eating them!

I love rainbows and St Patrick's Day provides a good excuse to do some rainbow arts and crafts with the children.  A while back I found a great idea to make Kaleidoscope Rice and thought it would provide the perfect materials for a rainbow with a difference.  Although our rice didn't come out half as nice as theirs, Danny and I enjoyed mixing food colouring to make the different colours of the rainbow, and he thought our rice was beautiful.  Both boys enjoyed the actitity!

Another activity I did with the boys for St Patrick's Day was a Limerick Scavenger Hunt.  It involves printing some clues (hopefully next time I will be organised and creative enough to make my own clues) and a pot of gold at the end (each boy got a bag of gold coins).  It was a hit!

I also thought this was a cool idea - DIY tattoos - I must try it next time there's a sporting event or a birthday party perhaps.  You can you find some amazing ideas out there on the blog sphere!

St Patrick's Day

I've been dying to make green eggs and ham for breakfast ever since I came across the idea a few weeks ago. St Patrick's day seemed like the perfect excuse to try it out. Daniel gobbled them up, as he does with anything resembling an egg. Nicholas on the other hand sounded a bit like Dr Seuss, 'I don't like green eggs and ham!'. It was a good gimmick but I won't make a habit of it!


My Granny always used to make floats for us when we were kids. It's one of the reasons we used to like visiting her so much. So far I haven't exposed my boys to fizzy drinks other than sparkling water which they call jet water. When I saw some cream sodas at Snoggy's, the South African shop at the end of the road, I thought they'd make the perfect St Patrick's Day treat!


We went to the Jacksons for a braai in the afternoon. Phillipa enjoyed showing off the trap she built for the leprechauns. Much to my amazement Nicholas could remember the trap they built together last year very clearly!


What a perfect excuse to do some rainbow arts and crafts. One of the blogs I like to read, Pink and Green Mama, has some lovely ideas. The sun was shining the other day so we we decided to take advantage of it and did some painting outside. It was fun starting off with the three primary colours and mixing them to make the seven colours of the rainbow: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet. Of course we were tempted to paint some other things too!


Any excuse to bake, right? Daniel and I decided to bake some green banana muffins and then when Nick got back from school we decorated them, in green, of course. I don't like a mess so I find it very hard to 'leave it up to the kids'. Next time I must try harder to let them just do the decorating all on their own!

Finally, we're trying to grow some Irish Luck, four leaf clovers!

St Patrick's Day

Claire and I decided to use St Patrick's Day as and excuse to do something different with the kids. The boys and I baked some green cupcakes to take over for the party. Even if I must say so myself they looked really nice and tasted delicious too. Claire cooked up a lovely lunch of pea soup followed by kiwi jelly while the kids built a trap for the leprechaun (or a patrickorn as Nicholas called him) . I think the end result was perfect because it enticed the little guy dressed in green to leave a whole pot of gold coins for the delighted little children!

I'll leave you with this ...

An Old Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.