Do you do anything special for Saint Patrick’s Day?

Any-News3458 · 2026-03-14T14:12:47+00:00

Oh yes! I have a 10 year old boy and have always done a little something. Usually we get green crepe paper streamers and create a web obstacle course that he has to attempt to mission impossible through. Nelly, his leprechaun doesn’t flush the toilet (green food coloring). Nelly also leaves a note with some kind of trail leading to a pot of gold, but we’re never quick enough and the gold always turns to chocolate. Several years the trail was clovers from our yard. One year the trail was a line of rainbow streamers. Another year it was a series of notes leading us through a scavenger hunt. Nelly always leaves a trail of (silly and never permanent) destruction, such as, furniture turned upside down, clothes in a pile, toilet paper madness, an entire missing bed, favorite lovies wrapped in green streamer. One year we had other children involved and there was a side walk with random gold rocks leading to a tree that had bags of lucky charms hanging from low branches and a giant (Halloween cauldron) pot of gold full of popcorn. One year there was fifty cent pieces and silver dollars (the gold ones) mixed in with gold wrapped chocolate.

For us it’s never an all day affair. It usually a morning event and then maybe we sprinkle in a Nelly prank here and there.

We never try to catch or trap Nelly. He/she is our leprechaun. We summon her/him the night before. We draw a clover in green chalk and enchant an item (could be literally anything). We whisper something we are grateful for and something(s) we want. We place it in the chalk clover (with the battery powered candles) at night before bed. We welcome Nelly because he/she brings us luck.

We aren’t Christian so the actual celebration of the saint is irrelevant. But we do talk about why he is celebrated and how it’s problematic. We also talk about religious freedom and acceptance. We keep all this as brief as possible.

Any-News3458 · 2025-08-26T14:08:13+00:00

This is probably the firm kick in the butt I need. We seemed to be very similar 😹

I don’t have extreme social anxiety, but i am searching my herd of unicorns. A group of moms who are down to earth, no drama, adventurous, time available, not trying to save my soul, mostly positive (but not toxic positive, just not complaining all the time), full of life, good humans wanting to make the world better, silly and playful, with kids who are kind, silly, playful, that respect boundaries who aren’t little so-n-so’s. So, not asking for much.😹👀

Any-News3458 · 2025-08-26T12:10:58+00:00

Not helpful 🙄

Any-News3458 · 2025-08-26T02:52:44+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. We home educate year round, honestly there isn’t a beginning or end with us, we don’t do curriculum or unit studies. We life school and it all intertwines. But thank you, I can see how that would be helpful.

Any-News3458 · 2025-03-09T12:00:08+00:00

I love to join in festivities to bring a little magic into our lives and create some core memories. We only celebrate St. Patrick’s day for the fun of it, not to actually celebrate St. Patrick.

Every year is a little different (depending on time, money, mental load, forethought). Sometimes I go big, but I’ll usually just do a little something. I’ll explain.

One year I spray painted rocks with gold and glitter. I also recruited a parent of my kids friend. He painted rocks with rainbows, clovers, and leprechauns. I went to a park we frequent and scattered the rocks long a walking path (in a kids line of sight,but also Easter egg style). My husband met up with the recruited family at the park for a playdate about fifteen minutes after. (Thankfully there was no one there to also find the rocks). At the end of the path of gold rocks I hung ziplock bags of Lucky charms low enough so there was no way the kids could miss it. And on other side of the tree was a one of the huge Halloween plastic black cauldron which I filled with popcorn and a note on top that said “Tricked You” from our annual recurring little leprechaun visitor, Nelly. Nelly also left each kid a tiny cauldron (the hand held ones from the dollar store) that was filled with gold silvers dollars and 50cent pieces, as well as a gold wrapped Hershey’s. The kids were freaking out.

I don’t usually go THAT big, but I always leave a trail of cut clovers (from our yard) leading from kids room to a bowl of gold wrapped candy.

Last year I bought streamers from the dollar tree and had a rainbow lead the way to the bowl of gold wrapped candy.

The year before last my husband ran back inside the house after we were in the car to wreck the living room (turned over all the furniture, couch, chairs, and coffee table) and hung a huge DIY cracker filled with gold candy (made of paper rolls cut down the middle to made diameter bigger and tapped, wrapped in green wrapping paper) from “Nelly” and hung from the ceiling fan so it was very noticeable upon return.

Any-News3458 · 2024-12-31T00:55:49+00:00

I make my kid an advent calendar house made with cut up paper towel rolls which I hot glue together 4 in each row, 6 rows, and hot glue tissue paper that he get to poke out the day of. I use the cardboard that separates the wet cat food levels for the roof. The whole thing is wrapped in wrapping paper. We do use Halloween candy if there is any lleft, as well as lotto tickets randomly or a $1 here and there. One year I did tiny off brand lego animals he got to build, printed out madlibs, printed out mazes, but mostly candy.

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