St. Patrick's Day - Green Noodles

We love the holidays.  For St. Patrick's Day I made green spaghetti!

 Apparently, it was very good.  I also made green rice crispies too.

The baby slurping up all the green noodles. 

St. Patrick's Day School Treats

Every class needs a clover sucker lollipop garden for St. Patrick's Day, right?  Well at least my daughter's class will have one.  Her sweet little teacher likes the water bottles I do and I can't just do one thing so..... I made these too.  The original creator here used Charms Blow Pop suckers and I wanted to but Wal-mart was out and then when I went to CVS to try and find them I figured out that they are blow pops (with gum). Duh. I knew that hence the name blow pops.  No gum at school.  So it worked out better that I used dum dums they are smaller and worked out perfect, with no gum.

With Glittering Eyes has a very detailed tutorial if you are wanting to do this too.  The only thing I did different was use dum dum suckers, put my styrofoam blocks in a square since I had two, use hot glue to put on the fence and grass, and use my own files but it's pretty much the exact same.

Here are the files if you have a Silhouette and would like to make one too:)

Clover Lollipop Garden - Silhouette Files

Here are the St. Patrick's Day water bottles I did for Payton's class.  I really don't believe in reinventing the wheel if you don't have to, but I never can just leave the original as is. So I made the clover bigger, added the teacher's name with a heart and added a dotted border. Oh, and they were originally toppers too.

Rainbow Cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day!

Here is my attempt to make rainbow cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day.  I thought I would try this when I saw it here. 

Instructions:

Prepare your favorite white cake mix, then divide the batter evenly among six small bowls. Following the chart below, dye each bowl of batter a rainbow color.

RAINBOW COLOR DROPS OF FOOD COLORING

Purple 9 red and 6 blue drops

Blue 12 drops

Green 12 drops

Yellow 12 drops

Orange 12 yellow and 4 red drops

Red 18 drops

Line 16 muffin pan wells with baking cups. Evenly distribute the purple batter among the cups, then the blue, and so on, following the order shown. As you go, gently spread each layer of batter with the back of a spoon to cover the color underneath.

Bake the cupcakes according to your recipe directions. Then, decorate however you like.

Can you taste the rainbow?

Tip: If you want even more vibrant colors than my cupcakes, use gel food coloring.  I also would only use 5 colors eliminating the purple.  I think it get too time consuming with six colors and it would help the other colors stand out better if you only used 5.

We will be on vacation on St. Patrick's Day but wouldn't it be fun to make rainbow pancakes. I know.....dear husband if you are reading this that you think I am crazy:)  .....trust me our daughter loves this kind of stuff.