Leprechaun Handprint Card
Believe it or not, this adorable handprint is actually a card. Open it up, and your kid will get a kick out of writing a fun message inside. It’s easy to make, too! All they have to do is trace their hand on card stock and paint it. Then they can have fun making the hat — decked out in glitter, of course.
Gnome Planters
There’s no reason not to have fun with your greenery. These charming St. Patrick’s Day gnome planters are easy enough for kids to make and cute enough to display just about anywhere in your home.
Leprechaun Hat Treats
What’s better than a snack-filled St. Patrick’s Day? Using green paper cups, craft foam and glitter paper, you can create a leprechaun hat treat cup full of popcorn, chocolates and rainbow jellybeans.
Leprechaun Trap
Recycle an empty cardboard box into an effective trap that’ll keep any leprechauns away from your shiny pots of gold. Cover your box with green wrapping paper, glitter shamrocks and plastic gold coins.
Find out how to make these and many other projects here – 50 Easy St. Patrick’s Day Crafts
Happy Chocolate Chip Cookie Week!
The chocolate chip cookie was invented by American chef Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1938. She invented the recipe during the period when she owned the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Massachusetts. In this era, the Toll House Inn was a popular restaurant that featured home cooking. A myth holds that she accidentally developed the cookie, and that she expected the chocolate chunks would melt, making chocolate cookies. That is not the case; Wakefield stated that she deliberately invented the cookie. She said, “We had been serving a thin butterscotch nut cookie with ice cream. Everybody seemed to love it, but I was trying to give them something different. So I came up with Toll House cookie.”She added chopped up bits from a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie.The original recipe in Toll House Tried and True Recipes is called “Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies”. Wakefield gave Nestle the recipe for her cookies and was paid with a lifetime supply of chocolate from the company.
