St. Patrick’s Day and Dublin the Leprechaun…
Each year since Our Little Adventurer was born, we’ve celebrated every Saint’s Day in the United Kingdom (except sadly for St. Andrew…so if there are any Scottish readers out there who could clue us in on how to celebrate that, I’d love to hear) and yet I’ve failed for the past two years to document our Leprechaun infused fun in March.
I don’t have many words (I’ve never kissed that stone) about our St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, but just know that there’ a tiny leprechaun called Dublin who comes to our house in March each year. He stays for the week getting up to magical mischief at night….and leaves with a party in his wake, complete with rainbow sprinkle cupcakes.
His entrance appeared (a Dublin door) on our Instagram feed last week. He left a tiny key in the trap made by Jensen (his first ever, so sweet) and sprinkled his “leprejewels” (as we call them) in there too. Each morning the littles checked the trap to see what they’d caught.
On Saturday morning, on return from Jiu Jitsu with Dadda, the party was discovered. Rainbows and shamrocks everywhere.
Shamrock headboppers, and shamrock guinness mugs on necklaces…and shamrock shirts too!
This year he sent the littles on a scavenger hunt, trying to find where he’d hidden his (chocolate) gold…
And then he left us. Our own cheeky little leprechauns are here though, all year around.
That is such a neat idea. St Patrick's Day isn't a big deal here, but I think what you do is cute.
What a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! I absolutely love the boys shirts too- so festive, and absolutely adorable!
St Patrick's Day is HUGE in Chicago! We're known for dying the lake green and having HUGE festivals! I LOVE your decor, so festive and fun <3
Aww this is so lovely! I can't wait to include my boy fully in the St. Patrick's Day celebrations when he's a bit older. I love being Irish 🙂
This party looks like so much fun, you did a great job with all the decorating! Your little ones looked like they had a blast!
The boys are adorable! Love your decor and how festive it all is.
What a super cute celebration! We like to plan out and set Leprechaun traps! We haven't caught one yet, but we always manage to make him drop some of his goodies!
St Patrick's day ready? I'll wait closer to the date but I do love a good (planned) party
Omg how cute!!!! When I lived in FL St.patty's day was huge!!! I looked forward to it every year because it was just one giant fun time! Here where I live in NY, its just another day unless you go to an Irish bar… Kinda miss the way people in my town in FL did it 😉
St. Patricks day is tons of fun, that looks like so much fun; love all the decorations and green!
I really love your decor for St. Pattys Day! Green is really a pretty color! Its not too popular in the town that I am in but its interesting to see how big it can really get.
This is a such a great thing! your family so adorable I hope that
was great.
awwww so cute like my irish friend Fiona I too love st Patricks day celebrations some parts of the UK and Ireland go all out and can not wait to see them this year
This is the cutest way every to celebrate. I love the idea and it makes it so amazing for the little ones. Thanks for sharing,
We never celebrate St.Patrick's day other than pinching people. I may change my tradition this year.
So strange to stumble upon this post now but, hey, it's got me looking forward to the spring! We're big St Patty's day fans in this household/family. My family hails from the UK, my son was conceived there (born in Canada, thank heavens :P) and we like to make a big event of things. My hubby was born March 11 and my daughter on the 19th so we try to do something St Patty's day themed and just celebrate both birthdays on that day. Our extended family gets together anyway so we figured it might be good.
I love your little ideas and how you're carrying over traditions!
What a cute idea to do for St Patricks Day. We never really did anything for the holiday, except when we lived on based when my ex-husband was in the military, we had parties.. That's about it.