St. Patrick's Day Fun

I added more pictures from my phone after lunch and they showed up at the beginning of this post...not going to take the time to move them to the end...here are our  shamrock cookies and green lemonade!



We've been having a fun day so far doing St. Patrick's Day activities.  We started off the morning with green waffles (they were a pale green, and Sean was expecting bright green, but he got over the disappointment quickly!) Here's Brilee enjoying her green waffles...

Lilly did not want her picture taken.  Sean ate his so quickly, I couldn't get a picture of him!

They have been playing this Shamrock pattern matching game all this week.  I have found my new favorite is making folder games---they are easy to organize and the kids love them just as much as the board games they got for Christmas!  Sean's favorite shamrock is the polka-dot one, and he is learning a lesson in being happy for Lilly when she gets that one instead of him.



I remembered this idea from when I was in elementary school--potato stamps!  I cut the shape of a shamrock into the potato, and you have an instant stamp!  The kids enjoyed these and we reinforced the concept that the three leaves represent the trinity.





Showing off his stamp



I took these pictures a couple of days ago when we first made our green treasure hunting sensory tub.  I dyed rice green, added split peas and hid pennies inside.  The kids could play with this for hours except for the fact that I cringe when I see rice and peas accidentally fly out of the tub with their "penny pinchers"....it has been limited to 15 min at a time so that all the rice and peas last for longer than this year!



The kids are watching the Veggietales video right now about the history of St. Patrick's Day, then we're going to have green jello, and shamrock shaped sandwiches and shamrock cookies...I think I'll try to enjoy this stage of homeschooling when everything is fun and art/activity based...it takes much less preparation and thinking on my part!

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!

p.s.--a quick history on our last name, Youngblood.  Jon's family has a whole book tracing their ancestors back to a Scotch-Irish decent with the last name Jonbloedt (had to go look up the spelling quickly there!)  so I feel somewhat of a desire to  have that heritage known to our kids even if this holiday can be skewed away from the spread of the gospel to Ireland!
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