Rainbow Stitching

In the craziness I like to call life, I ran out of time to show you the neat craft I did with my son's class for St. Patrick's Day.  It started with this rainbow of colorful yarn...

I originally saw this idea at Filth Wizardry to use that rubbery shelf liner as a sewing medium.  What a fantastic idea!  It works great for kids who are learning and practicing simple stitches.  I loved how she drew pictures on the shelf liner, and used the rainbow to fit in with our St. Patrick's Day craft.

The kids all worked really hard on this - boys and girls alike!  I cut out a cloud for the kids to stitch to one side of their rainbow and a pot for the other end.  They each got a few Rolos to add as gold to their pots also.  It ended up being a two day project but everyone was able to take home their beautiful rainbow, complete with pot of gold.

Here is my son's finished project!

Leprechaun Tricks

So this morning, the kids woke up to find that not only did we NOT catch that tricky leprechaun, but that he played some tricks on us instead!

He popped open all our umbrellas and dumped out all our craft sticks.

I don't think he liked those traps we made.

He even pulled out our St. Patrick's Day books to read.

He put chocolate syrup on the kids toothbrushes!

He hung up one pair of shoes,

but not before tying green bows onto them.

And he stuffed another pair of shoes into a pair of boots,

and changed the plain laces to pretty green ribbons.

And boy did he make a mess!

Green yarn on the ceiling fan...

and green streamers over the sofa and chairs.

And, he made sure we were practing our letters.

The kids had so much fun with this little adventure this morning!  They even got to follow a trail of green coins to a special treasure of candy coins.  I heard that the leprechaun also snuck into my son's school things and left a bunch of confetti shamrocks in his school folder and lunch box!

Leprechaun Trap

Although St. Patrick's Day is one of the smaller holidays celebrated at our house, my kids still get excited about all the little happenings that take place that day.  To prepare for this fun day tomorrow the kids made leprechaun traps.

We used small craft sticks to create a box, then used larger colored craft sticks to make the top (because you know leprechauns like rainbows).  We used one additional stick to prop it up, so the leprechaun could venture into the trap to see the yummy "gold" fish left for him.  I wonder if we'll catch him?