St. Patricks Day!!!

Indie making the trap. 

   

Tally being silly with her head band. 

Green mac and cheese

   













   




            This year over St. Patricks day the big kids (Kaiya and Jack) were away on school camp so it seemed like a good time to make St. Patrick's Day a big deal for the little girls. The day before St. Patrick's Day we read some stories about leprechauns and made a leprechaun trap.  I got some cool headbands for St. Patrick's Day. The girls stacked two pots and covered the handles with tape so that the leprechaun would get stuck. They then filled the pots with every green thing they could find including, grass, a seashell colored green and beads. They then covered the pots with a paper tent to keep the leprechaun in if the tape didn't work.  I was very impressed that they were so independent in building their trap. Overnight a leprechaun went into the trap and took the treats we had left to lure it in and exchanged it for some chocolate gold coins! Tally and Indie both had a gold coin with breakfast.The leprechaun had also got into the breakfast smoothie and turned it green! The girls had a St. Patricks Day themed lunch box with shamrock sandwiches, green grapes, a clover cookie and a few green m&ms. I had to throw in some not themed things because I didn't have enough green things for them to not be starving. For dinner we had green mac and cheese that I colored with spinach in the cheese sauce. They were initially very skeptical of their dinner but after a few bites they warmed up to it.

Indie and Tally with their trap. They were having a laugh
about what a leprechaun might look like