Top 'o The Day To YOU! It's me, Tobias McKnapp saying unto you Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Want to keep your kiddos entertained for hours? We’ve got you covered with festive, family-friendly activities you can do at home. Your little ones will be busy having fun for hours with these ideas.
● Do a St. Patrick’s Day scavenger hunt - Create clue cards, word searches and other activities to lead kids on the hunt around the house. And make sure you have a treat for the winner!
● Read St. Patrick’s Day books - If you didn’t hit the library for holiday picture books, check out YouTube for stories about leprechauns, luck, shamrocks and pots of gold.
● Make a green-themed charcuterie board - Fill it with healthy, kid-friendly eats like grapes, cucumbers, kiwi and green pea snack crisps. And throw in some chocolate gold coins for a sweet pop of color.
● Dress up your pet - If your pet doesn’t mind, get them in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day by putting them in a green collar, shamrock sunglasses, a headband, or anything else your kids come up with.
● Tie-dye a shirt - Grab some green dye, a white t-shirt and get crafty.
● Decorate and eat clover cookies - Break out the cookie cutters and bake up a batch of holiday cookies, then decorate and devour.
● Watch a St. Patrick’s Day movie - When you’re ready for a break, put on a movie like “The Luck of the Irish” or “The Secret of the Kells.”
● Make green play-doh - Whip up a batch of play-doh and let the kids go crazy with cookie cutters, gold coins and rolling pins.
● Create a handprint rainbow - Dip their little hands in various shades of paint and let them make a rainbow with them.
● Build a leprechaun trap - Do your kids want to catch a leprechaun? They’ll need to create a trap with popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, shamrock stickers, Lucky Charms, gold coins and whatever else they can think of.
Now, I made a Leprechaun Trap... I heard about this the other day from my partner on the DC show... and I take it these kids in the elementary schools make these 'traps' for fun and frolicking on the day of St. Patrick... However... what if I were to turn up the firepower on this trap just a bit, to catch some sort of a real Leprechaun in the act? Would I be able to get his GOLD? I've got some bait, I've got the TRAP... I'm even decorating it for the occasion by painting it a glow-in-the-dark GREEN!
I'm setting the trap tonight, on this St. Paddy's Eve... and we will see what I find in the morning when I wake up!
This... could be fun!
HT: Pop Sugar!