Host a Saint Patrick's Day Feast!

Plan a Saint Patrick's Day party as part of your home school!  Here are some crafts to decorate, and a traditional Irish meal that the kids can help make...

Enhance the Learning

• Pick up the St. Patrick's Day Book List
• Learn the History Behind our St. Patrick's Day Traditions

Traditional Irish Meal

Crockpot Corned Beef Brisket

• 1 onion
• carrots (chopped)
• potatoes (diced)
• 1 cup beef broth
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• garlic clove
• bay leaf
• cabbage (chopped)

1. Place cut vegetables on bottom of crock pot. 
2. Place corned beef brisket on the top. 
3. In mixing bowl combine broth and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over top of brisket. 
4. Add garlic clove and bay leaf. Cook on low 6-8 hours. 
5. Add cabbage to top of pot half way through cooking time.

Irish Soda Bread

• 2 cups white flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ cups buttermilk
• ¾ cup raisins

1. In mixing bowl combine flours, baking soda, salt and sugar. 
2. In separate bowl combine eggs and buttermilk. 
3. Pour into dry ingredients and blend slightly, you just want the dough moistened so don't beat to long. Stir in raisins. 
4. On a floured surface knead dough several minutes. 
5. Place in a round cake pan. With a knife slice an X on the top of the loaf. 
6. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-40 minutes until golden.

Crockpot Irish Stew

• 2-4 lbs. cubed chicken or beef
• 2 tsp salt
• ¼ tsp pepper
• 2 qt broth
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• carrots (chopped)
• potatoes (chopped)
• onions (sliced)

1. Add ingredients to crock pot or large soup pan making sure liquid covers all meat and vegetables. 
2. Cook on low 6-8 hours or high 4-6 hours.

St. Patrick's Day Crafts

Fruit Loops Rainbow

This simple idea for preschoolers and toddlers comes from One Artsy Mama.  Let the kids sort the different colors and glue them to a piece of paper to create their own rainbow.  Using cotton balls, build 'clouds' to hold it up!

Funny Leprechaun

1. Paint a paper plate peach and let it dry.
2. Cut out strips of orange paper and glue them all the way around the plate, as the hair and beard.
3. Cut out two orange eyebrows and glue them on.  Paint or draw the face.
4. Cut out a little hat from green construction paper.  Add a black hat band and golden buckle, then glue onto the head at an angle.
5. Leave it to try, punch a hold at the top, and hang up for St. Paddy's Day!

St. Patrick's Day learning unit :

• Saint Patrick's Day Learning with Legos Unit Study
• Leprechaun in Late Winter
• Leprechaun, What do you See (free)
• Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland and lapbook (free)
• That's What Leprechauns Do and lapbook (free)
• The St. Patrick's Day Shillelagh and lapbook (free)