Lucky Leprechaun Lunch
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WHAT YOU NEED
- Gold 8 inch by 10 inch two handled gift bag (available at greeting card or craft stores)
- 1 sheet of green card stock
- Gold puffy paint
- Glue stick
- Narrow green ribbon (2 feet)
- 1 St. Patrick's Day lunch (see below)
- 1 Leprechaun's Surprise (see below)
HOW TO DO IT
- Print out shamrock diagram onto green card stock, cut out.
- With a glue stick, glue the shamrock onto the front of the gold bag.
- Paint your child's name to the front of the shamrock with gold puffy fabric paint.
- Tie the bag closed with a green ribbon.
- Fill the decorated bag with a St. Patrick's Day Lunch. For example:
- A Shamrock shaped sandwich (use a shamrock cookie cutter)
- Green celery sticks, green apple wedges and green olives.
- Leprechaun's Surprise (see below)
Leprechaun's Surprise
WHAT YOU NEED
- Recipe for Chocolate Chip Shamrocks
- 1 - green #1 lunch pack paper bag (3 1/2 by 6 3/4 inches)
- 12 inch length of narrow gold ribbon
- 1 unlined index card
- 1 green ink pen
HOW TO DO IT
- Place several Chocolate Chip Shamrocks into the small green bag.
- On an unlined index card, or other small sheet of paper, write a limerick* from the Leprechaun to your child. For Example:
A Leprechaun leaves you this treat
That he thinks is awfully neat!
It's an Irish surprise
From that sneaky green guy
That is Wonderful, and hard to beat!
- Place the limerick inside the bag with the Shamrocks.
- Tie the filled bag with narrow gold ribbon and tuck inside your child's Lucky Leprechaun Lunch.
*Limerick (lim'ur•ik), (noun)
A kind of humorous poem in which lines one, two and five rhyme, and lines three and four form a rhymed couplet.
[1895-1900; Limerick, Ireland]
Random House Webster's College Dictionary Copyright 1997
by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
FOLLOW UP FUN
- Check out a book on Irish Limericks from the library to share with your children on St. Patrick's Day.
- Help your children write their own limericks. Everyone can read the limerick that they've written at the dinner table on St. Patrick's Day.