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St. Patrick's
Day Party Ideas
Share the Irish spirit with these St. Patrick's
Day party ideas! |
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Shamrock
Treasure
Chest
Rainbow
Invitations
Cut out a shamrock (clover) and write the party info on the
back of each leaf.
On the front of the
shamrock write your choice of the
following:
You don’t need the
luck of the Irish to have a good time at
this St. Patrick’s Day party
Follow the little
green men to a St. Patrick’s Day party
Or
use one of these printable invitations.
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Rainbow Pinata
Green Partyware
Gold Coins
Green Balloons
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Cakes
Shamrock
Pot
of Gold Cupcake Cake – Cauldron filled with gold candy
Decorations
Shamrocks
Rainbows
Pot of gold for a centerpiece
Color
scheme is, of course, green. Use black and gold for
accent colors.
Print
out this St. Patricks banner and hang it up.
Costumes/Dress
up
Provide each guest with a green
leprechaun hat. Simply print up a copy of the hat and fasten
it to a headband.
Green scarf to tie
around neck
Green bow tie
My
little girl loves wearing green curling ribbon in her pony
tails for St. Patrick’s Day. Offer this dress up for your girlie guests.
Games
and Activities
Follow the Rainbow
(ages 3-7)
Tie together ribbons in the colors of the rainbow and string
the ribbons among various objects, a table, a chair, a clock, etc.
Allow the
guests to follow the rainbow to find the pot of gold hidden at the end.
Use a
witch’s cauldron from Halloween decorations and fill it with gold foil
covered
chocolate coins, or other gold covered candies like Hershey Kisses or
Reese’s
Miniature Peanut Butter Cups.
Find
the Four Leaf
Clover (ages 3-16)
Include only one four leaf clover as part of your St.
Patrick Day party decorations—the rest of the shamrocks should have
three
leaves. As the guests arrive inform them there is a four leaf clover
hidden in
the party area and the one to find it first gets a prize.
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Leprechaun
Tricks
(ages 4-10)
Leprechauns like to play tricks and hide things. Play a game
where you hide something (preferably something green!) in a room and
everyone
has to look for it. The guest who finds it first gets to hide it for
the next
round of the game. Continue the play for several rounds.
Snatch
the Leprechaun’s
Gold (ages 4-16)
Put three pieces of gold (yellow paper cut from this
download)
on the back of each guest with a piece of masking tape. Instruct the
guests to collect as many pieces of gold as they can. The game is over
when everyone
has lost their gold pieces from their backs. The winner has the most
gold pieces. This was a favorite at our family's St. Patrick's Day
party. Everyone wanted to play it over and over.
Good
Luck Search
(ages 5-10)
Place several good luck charms in the room and instruct the
guests to find as many good luck charms as they can. Include: 4 leaf
clovers,
horse shoes, pennies, rabbit’s foot, the number seven, etc.
Jump
Over the Rainbow
(ages 5-16)
This
game will bring spastic excitement for your St. Patrick's Day party.
Make a rainbow on the floor with streamers. Instruct the
guests to jump over the narrowest part of the rainbow. Then, widen the
rainbow
by moving the streamers a little further apart (it will be easiest to
do this
only at the center of the rainbow). Have the guests jump over the
rainbow,
again. Keep widening the rainbow after each set of jumps. If a guest
can’t make
it over the rainbow, they’re out of the game. Continue until only one
guest is
left. That guest wins!
Lucky
Word Game
(ages 8-16)
How many words can you make from the letters in Leprechaun?
Print
out this game.
Crafts
Rainbow Creation
(ages 3-6)
Glue bits of colored paper to this
rainbow printout. Cut,
tear or use a hole punch to chop up papers in red, orange, yellow,
green, blue
and purple. Provide white glue or glue sticks for the guests to glue
the bits
of colored paper on their own rainbow.
Sock
Snake (ages
3-10)
Legend
says that St. Patrick drove all the poisonous snakes out of Ireland and
into the sea. Celebrate this miracle at your St. Patrick's Day party by
making a sock snake. Fill a clean, new sock with rice or beans
and sew shut. Have the guests glue on eyes and decorate their snakes by
coloring it with markers, or gluing strips of fabric on it, etc.Rainbow
Streamer
(ages 3-12)
Give
each guest a wand, a short dowel rod. Tie narrow
ribbons in the colors of the rainbow to the end of the wand. When done,
dance
and have fun. To make the ribbons longer lasting dip the cut ends of
the ribbon
in white glue or clear finger nail polish so the ribbons won’t fray.
Your St. Patrick's Day party will look like the Green Isle
with
all these rainbows in the air.
Party
Hat Decoration
(ages 3-16)
Give each guest a green paper plate and instruct them to
make it into a hat for your St. Patrick’s Day party. Have ribbons, silk
flowers, cups, paper, glue, scissors, etc. available for your guests to
use. Then have a parade at your St. Patrick's Day party for
everyone to model their creation.
Charm
Necklace
(ages 3-16)
Make a good luck charm necklace for your St. Patrick’s Day
party. Use plastic beads or stone beads. Some good luck charms include:
turtles, elephants, horse shoes, clovers, etc.
Cookie
Snakes
(ages 3-16)
Make your favorite recipe for sugar cookies, or purchase the
dough at the store. Split into four separate bowls. Color one red,
color one
blue and color one yellow—leave the fourth white. You will need to
refrigerate
the dough for a couple hours after warming it up to mix in the
coloring. Then
allow the guests to WASH THEIR HANDS, and make snakes with the cookie
dough.
Roll the snakes into a spiral and place on cookie sheet to bake. Bake
according
to the directions on the package or in the recipe.
Spiral
Snake (ages
4-8)
Make foam snakes. Cut these spirals from green or brown foam
sheets. Add eyes in the center and pull to make it look like a snake
that’s
creeping along.
Blarney
Stone (ages 4-16)
Paint your own blarney stone. Use acrylic paints to decorate
small stones. An easy and fun craft for your St. Patrick's Day party.
Refreshments
Serve it all green for your St. Patrick's Day party:
Green punch |
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Green sherbet mixed with
lemon-lime soda
Green cookies
Potato skins or French
fries
Rainbow layered jell-o –
Make this by spraying a 9”x13” pan
with oil. Make red jell-o and put it in the pan and put in fridge. When
it is
completely cool make yellow jell-o and put it on top of the red jell-o.
Cool
completely. Then add a layer of blue jell-o. The colors will blend a
little
forming an orange and green layer between the other colors. It’s not
obvious
while it’s still in the pan, but looks great when it’s served.
Lucky Charm Cereal – Yep.
Put it in baggies and let the
guests snack on it.
Leprechaun
Poop - green Yo-gos
Take
Home Gift Ideas
Good luck charms
Gold coins
Rainbow hair ribbons for girls
Magnifying glass to find the little men (Leprechauns)
Shamrocks
Anything green |
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