To catch a Leprechaun....

So, I promised a post about St. Patrick's day.  

I apologize for the delay but things have been a bit hectic around here!  

The Dresses....


For starters, we decided to make dresses for the girls to wear for the Annual Shanahan St. Patrick's Day gathering.  

I used the same basic design that I used for making Teagan's Birthday Dress.  I added a neat Celtic Button I found at Hobby Lobby.  

For Meara's hair, I followed some of the hairstyle ideas I found here and evolved them into this!  

The Trap....

Then on Wednesday night, we had to create a leprechaun trap for Meara to take to school.  So, with a little help from the internet, and some glue and construction paper we came up with a trap so awesome, we were SURE to catch a little monster....

  

                          Meara, working hard!

See the little cup to the left?  That's so when he fell thru the trap door, he didn't hurt his "little tooshie".  I will admit to helping cut the box, the Mt Dew bottle, and the clover pieces but Meara did the majority of the work.  (The clover buttons were left overs from the button bag from the dress).

Meara Dressed for school in her dress...

Meara's hair for school.

The Leprechaun visited us while we slept that night and turned our cinnamon rolls green!  Good thing we hid the trap...Just in case.  

The leprechaun attacked the classroom at school, but no trap could hold him.  :(  

The Dinner.....  

I don't have pictures.  I plum forgot.  You can trust the fact that we had Corned Beef and Cabbage.  I sauteed the cabbage and onion in a bit of the juices from the corned beef.  We had boiled red potatoes, homemade bread and corned beef cooked all day in the crock pot.  

So, there we go.... St. Pat's for a few of Irish Girls!