{St Patrick's Day Chicken Coop // 2022}

 A few weeks ago I shared my chicken coop all decorated for Valentine's Day. Well, I just updated it for the next holiday...St Patrick's Day!! 

{St Patrick's Day //2021}

 I almost missed posting about St Patrick's Day! And I couldn't let that happen. Not because we celebrated in some big kind of way, but because I have the cutest pictures to share. But first, we had to be a little bit festive, so green Lucky Charms for breakfast it was!

{St Patty's Day Shenanigans}

Happy Monday!! I took a short little blogging hiatus {posts were scheduled} from Thurs-Sun to spend the rest of Spring Break with my sweet boy! Lots to catch up on, now...

Like our St Patty's Day shenanigans. Ever since we made our DIY Leprechaun trap Mason has checked it no less than 97 times a day, hoping to have caught a Leprechaun. On St. Patty's Day morning Mason woke up to see that a Leprechaun had come, but he was too tricky to be caught. He did leave Mason some things, though! And there was gold magic Leprechaun dust everywhere. Oh, and he dropped his hat full of Leprechaun hold when he was trying to make his escape. We must have startled him! Mason didn't mind, though! He was happy to keep the hat and coins.

Diesel could not stand it!!! He kept running in front of the camera as I was taking pictures of Mason and his St Patty's Day goods! He was cracking us up. He despises the camera, but didn't want Mason to get all of the attention. Oh that boy!!

After Mason looked at all of his goodies he enjoyed some green milk on the porch! He was so impressed with my green milk-making skills. haha! He said it tasted a bit like regular milk and a little like strawberry milk. It was just white milk with green food coloring.

How was your St. Patty's Day?

{Our DIY Leprechaun Trap}

Yesterday I was reading my sweet friend Whitney's Spring Fun post and saw that she had put on her list "make a Leprechaun trap". I was intrigued! So I asked her a bit about it and by her recommendation started searching Pinterest. I searched Leprechaun Trap and so many options came up! I let Mason choose which one he liked best since I wanted his help with the project. He excitedly chose this one.

We started gathering up all of the materials we had on hand that we could use. Luckily we had a box left over from a recent fundraiser because none of our collected shoe boxes would have worked. I found some St Patty's Day images and combined them all onto one 8x10 in PicMonkey and then printed them.

Materials:
A box
Construction paper or card stock
Popsicle Sticks
Markers
Hot Glue Gun/Glue sticks
Things to decorate your box
Straws
Scissors
Paper Towel roll

The first thing we did was cover our box with green construction paper. I did the hot gluing of the paper while Mason started coloring the popsicle sticks for our ladder. Then we added our Free Slide and Rainbow signs. I glued the little signs to colored straws and then glued the straws to our box. We wrapped our paper towel roll with yellow paper. Mason said it was kind of like gold and Leprechauns like gold so we went with it.

Then after all of that good coloring work Mason needed to take a break for some yogurt eating and some brain exercising....

He melts me and cracks me up all at the same time! I just adore this child.

Anyhow, we got back to work and made the ladder to our Leprechaun Trap with popsicle sticks. We embellished the top with some of Mason's gold mardi-gras style necklaces to draw in the leprechaun. Mason was so proud of our creation and has checked his trap no less than 95 times in the last hour.

Have you made anything like this? Share! I would love to see.

{St Patty's Day}

Happy St Patrick's Day!!