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2-8-01For St. Patrick's Day, or even if we are doing the color "green", we had a green day. We gave each child a store bought sugar cookie and each one a bit of green icing and a plastic knife. The children got to ice their cookies. We also served green kool-aid and green Jell-O. It was a big hit!
Date: 3-26-00For St. Patrick's Day we made green leprechaun pudding for a snack. We made vanilla pudding and added "secret green leprechaun" drops and took turns using a hand-cranked egg beater to see the results. The 3-year olds were excited to see their vanilla pudding turning green! We also had a taste of Irish soda bread with the pudding!
Date: 3-20-00For St. Patrick's Day, we baked scones. It was very simple...2c. self-rising flour, 1/2 c. milk, 3tbs butter or margarine & a dash of salt. Bake @425 F for 12-15 min. I had the children take turns scooping the flour (I use a 1/2c. or 1/4 c. measuring cup so I could 'stretch' the turns). The children loved squishing all the ingredients together. Flour up a very clean table or pastry board & let them have a ball rolling & kneading. We cut our scones w/ different shaped cookie cutters. Terrific snack w/ jam & finished off w/ 'green' milk by adding a few drops of green food coloring.
Date: 3-14-002 biscuits per child green sugar (use green food coloring and add to regular sugar stir) Take the biscuits (I use canned ones) and tear them in half. Place three of the pieces together to form a shamrock and use the other one to roll into a stem. Sprinkle the sugar on top and bake. You have green shamrock biscuits.
Date: 3-12-00Rainbow Toast Give each child a slice of white bread. Have ready several small containers of milk to which you have added food coloring. We usually use margarine tubs, and offer the children blue, red, green, yellow and purple. Each child can brush colored mile on the slice of bread, in stripes or a rainbow arc, using a pastry brush or new watercolor brush. Then place in toaster. Bread comes out colored and can be eaten with butter and jam. (Butter can be tinted green for fun.)
Date: 3-8-00Green Peanut Butter Sandwiches! Add food coloring to peanut butter and spread onto two slices of bread. You can either make shamrocks with a cookie cutter or cut the sandwiches into squares.
Date: 3-7-00I like to bring in Lucky Charm cereal. I encourage my students to count and sort the marshmallow shapes. They also serve as a tasty snack.
Date: 3-7-00We always serve a green lunch, too, and usually do a few related cooking projects, but our surprise hit last year was "Lucky Charms" cereal, with or without milk. It made a quick, simple afternoon snack on this special day. Another easy green treat: combine equal parts cream cheese and marshmallow cream. Tint green and serve as dip for green apples.
Date: 3-6-00My mother would always fix grits (with green food coloring) and green milk. She would also give us two shamrock cookies that she made the night before. It was a fun and delicious breakfast before we left for school!
Date: 3-5-00I make all of my food green on this day. I bake buns that have been dyed green. I make green egg salad for the inside. I make green Kool-aide. I serve cucumbers, celery, pickles, etc. The kids really enjoy the all green meal.
Date: 2-29-00Shamrock Shakes In a blender put two cups of milk, two cups lime sherbet, and two ripe bananas. Then blend together and its ready to serve.
Date: 2-26-00Every year with my 4 and 5 year olds we have a "Tasting of the Green" on St. Pat's Day. I ask each child's parent to send in a green food to share with the class. I ask for things like green apples, green jell-o, kiwi, pickles, green grapes, celery, green beans, green kool-aid, etc. It is great fun to see the children try things they have never had before. We sometimes get some funny faces, too.
2-23-00I had done this for several years, the kids always enjoyed it and my daughter (11yrs) still talks about it happily. I would hide the little bags of gold covered chocolate in different places. I wouldn't mention looking for them until we were getting ready for lunch, we would have frozen cheese pizza with milk to drink. The kids would see me opening the pizza and even putting it in the oven but while they were looking for their "golden money bags" I would go in and add green food coloring to the tops of the pizza and in their glasses. That way when the kids seen me take the pizza out of the oven I would act surprised and amazed at the fact that the pizza had changed color. Must have been the leprechaun they would always say. Then when I would put white milk into their glasses they would be surprised because it would turn green because of the coloring I already had in their glasses. This works when we would have chicken and noodles w/mashed potatoes, I would color them while the kids were washing up. Same with cottage cheese, take it out of frig white but when added to their plates it was green. *Just remember to say something to their parents because it WILL make their stools a greenish color!
2-23-00St. Patrick's Day- Leprechaun Hats Use colored vanilla wafers ( green) for the bottom, use a few drops of green food coloring in cream cheese for spreading on top to hold the top of the hat, use a green gum drop, or green Maraschino cherry for the top.
2-20-00Make Leprechaun punch, by filling a punch bowl with 7 up and adding scoops of lime sherbet, as the sherbet melts it turns the soda green. Make green shamrocks, prepare a batch of Rice Krispie treats and add green food coloring to the marshmallows before you add the cereal and use a shamrock mold, (you can buy them at craft stores) Try making Irish Soda bread, it's similar to a biscuit dough, very easy to make, it doesn't need to rise and each child could make their own. Serve it with green cream cheese. What child wouldn't love fresh warm bread as a snack. Let me know if you want the recipe, I'd be happy to send it. This is a great site!!!
2-20-00Place a shamrock cookie cutter on a griddle and put green food coloring into your pancake batter then pour your pancake batter into the cookie cutter and wait about two or three minutes before removing the cookie cutter. Remove the cookie cutter, flip your shamrock pancake and serve with warm syrup for breakfast.
2-16-00Leprechaun Pie mix two boxes of pistachio pudding with milk. Add a container of cool whip. Let the children scoop up a spoonful and put into a individual pie crust. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes. 2-7-00
10-17-00For a fun St. Patrick's activity, I bring in "Magic Leprechaun Powder". I use Instant Pistachio Pudding mix and let the kids add the milk and take turns shaking the bowl or stirring. The children are quite amazed when it turns into something good to eat! Name:
Date: 1-7-99GOLD COOKIES To make gold cookies, take two Ritz crackers and put peanut butter in between them and then dip them in butterscotch chips (that's has been melted) and place on wax paper!! The kids love these!! 3-13-98 Name: Barb E-Mail: MiLady956@aol.com For St. Patrick's Day, coat the inside of a crock pot with green food coloring. Add any cream based soup, and let the children start to stir. Magic happens!! 3-9-98 Name: Gina... E-Mail: burkhard@ecsu.campus.mci.net A snack idea that I plan on trying (and a friend of mine did last year) is to put green food coloring in bowls, then adding ice cream. This, of course, is magic ice cream and turns green when the kids stir it. 3-8-98 Name: Claudette E-Mail: Realrosie1@aol.com Mine is real simple, I put a small drop of green food color in the children's glass before pouring their milk, and tell the children today we have magic milk, it starts white and turns green!!! 3-3-98 Name: Tammy E-Mail: tclark@kusd.edu Green Leprechaun frosting for snacks is a big hit in my preschool classroom. Allow students to mix yellow and blue frosting (or cream cheese) with their finger paint brushes. The new green frosting can be spread on grahm crackers or mini bagels with fingers also! 3-1-98 Name: Janet E-Mail: JRPAL @ aol,com Try vanilla pudding with a drop or 2 of leprechaun juice (green food coloring) dropped on top. Let kids mix it in with a spoon. Add "gold" or "rainbow" colored sprinkles. Enjoy. 2-24-98 Name: Pat E-Mail: PFull714@aol.com Make green jello jigglers and cut out with shamrock cookie cutter. Children can do this or you can do ahead for very young ones. 2-24-98 Daylene Shamrock Sandwiches Give each child a piece of white bread. Let the children help you mix green food coloring into cream cheese. Have the children spread the cream cheese on their bread. Give them a shamrock cookie cutter and let them press a shamrock out of the bread. Yummy!!! 2-24-98 Green Bread With Golden Butter Let the children help you make your favorite yeast-bread recipe but.......... add lots of green food coloring to the water you use. Give each child some dough to knead. Bake the children's dough according to your recipe. While the bread is baking, make golden butter. Pour a pint of cream into a jar. Add yellow food coloring then shake, shake, shake!!!! Enjoy your homemade butter on your green bread! 2-23-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16 Last year my class had green pudding pie for snack and chanted...... Leprechaun pie, Leprechaun pie, If I don't get some I think I'm gonna die. Give away my pot of gold, Give away the sky, But don't give away My Leprechaun Pie!!!! 2-23-98 Name: Alison E-Mail: hornes@mounet.com. St.Patrick Float Fill a clear plastic cup with Sprite. Add a spoonful of Lime sherbet for a great St. Patrick's Day Drink. 2-19-98 Name: Dolores E-Mail: Rogishdad@aol.com We took pistachio pudding dry and put it in a clear plastic container on the table when the children arrived. Attached to the container was a note from a leprechan. It stated that we should add two cups of milk and shake and a magic snack you should have. The powder is white, but as you add the milk it turns green. Have it for snack right away. I use the instant pudding and the large box. 2-19-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol I make shamrock shape cookies. Then I buy vanilla frosting and add a few drops of green food color. The children then frost the cookies. Sometimes we add faces to our cookies with the different colored gels. Name: teri E-Mail: prektchr1@aol.com Eat green eggs and ham and then read the story green eggs and ham. To make green eggs, just add a little bit of food coloring to them before you scramble. To make "green ham" soak your ham overnight in water with LOTS of green food coloring.
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