St. Patrick's Day Activities

Saint Patrick's Day Activities

I have to admit I haven't been focusing too much on Saint Patrick's Day, but as we've done a few activities I am trying to answer questions about why/what is Saint Patrick's Day. I found a few fun facts along the way. And this was from some online searches, so some of these may not be 100% accurate but I still found it interesting.

Who? Saint Patrick - born in Britain, captured into Slavery and taken to Ireland, escaped and converted to Christianity. Moved back to Ireland to be a missionary.  After his death he was named Ireland's Patron Saint. (There are some fun books out there that if we have time I'll try and grab at the Library to explain this more in detail)

Why a Shamrock? Some say that St. Patrick used the 3 leaf clover (shamrock) to explain the Trinity.

Why Corned Beef and Cabbage? Some say that many of the Irish immigrants couldn't afford certain meals so for the holiday of St. Patrick's day, the best they could do was beef and cabbage. 

Fun things we've done the last 2 weeks:

Made Green Jello Play dough 

Made Green Slime 

(using the recipe from the link, but instead of Valentine's used green food coloring) 

This is the slime. My daughter loves to put her plastic animals in the slime and play dough. 

Made this cool rainbow craft, thanks to our local Library's story time! 

For this activity you just need thin strips of each color of paper,  and then the black paper for the pot. They had cut out the gold with a sparkly cardstock. Lucy liked this craft, but really I was assembling as she used the glue stick. 

And today I decided to cut up a green pepper to try and look like a Shamrock - thank you Pinterest!

On Pinterest I had seen something similar to this but then adding a stem with a another piece of pepper. I just wanted to throw this in with her PB&J lunch quickly for fun. I honestly don't think she cared but I liked it! 

I used the same play dough and slime recipe that I had used for Valentine's Day, I just used lime jello for the play dough and green food coloring for the slime instead of red.