Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! I love to celebrate different holidays, especially the fun decorating part, and this one is no exception!
Each year we are visited by the Leprechaun the night before March 17th. He runs around our house leaving his little green footprints, gold chocolate coins, various other green candy and a treat or two for my kids.
This year he left a box of Lucky Charms, a cereal my daughter had been asking for, a big treat in our house! He also left a shamrock hat for my son to wear to school and a headband for my daughter that read “Let your Sham Rock”.
The Leprechaun footprints were an idea that I was given by my daughter’s pre-school teacher a couple of years back. So fun, inexpensive, and easy. Take any green paint, put a little on a paper plate, make a fist and put the outside of your fist (not the thumb side) in the paint, put imprint on floor and using your pinky finger paint on 4 or 5 toes!
My kids know that the footprints will disappear magically in 48 hours, long enough to enjoy and show their friends. The magic part is using the Mr. Clean magic eraser to erase them off of your floor! (All this is hush, hush, so please don’t spoil the secret for kids everywhere)
You should see the wild delight in the eyes of my kids (ok, so my son may be onto it, but he pretends so he can eat the candy) and their friends when they describe what came to our house. I win the award for “Most Creative Mom of the Day” by other moms and it only took me 10 minutes and about $4 every March 16th!
can you come to my house, Tracy???
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