{DIY} Pot of Gold

I'm all about making holidays extra fun for my kiddos. I enjoy giving them something special and with St. Patrick's Day right around the corner, I started thinking of what their something special would be this year.

While I was walking the isles at the dollar store I saw these tiny clay pots that came 3 in pack (perfect!) so the idea came to make them each their own little pot of gold.  I plan on setting these out for them Friday morning.

These were so simple to make, which was good because I did it last week while I was still recovering and a nice easy craft was just what I needed. Anything more complicated than this and I probably wouldn't have had the energy.

Here's what you need:

• Small clay pot (as I said, I found 3 mini ones at my dollar store. They are probably 3")
• Black paint
• Gold glitter
• Gold chocolate coins (or whatever candy you want to fill it with)

I just painted the entire pot black, let it dry, then used glue around the edge and poured the glitter over. SO EASY! I filled each one with some chocolate coins and done!! I can't wait to see their little faces when they see these Friday.

Do you do anything "extra" for your kids during St. Patrick's Day? 

*linking up with Jessi's Design & Going the Distance

Rainbow Crafts

I just loooooove making crafts with my kiddos and now that Brayden is older, he REALLY enjoys it too. Long gone are the days where he is crying hysterically because I painted his hand to get that perfect turkey print, heck now he paints his own hand.

I of course browsed Pinterest to find some cute/easy St Pattys day crafts and came across this and this.  We pretty much followed the pictures and added our own stickers.  The fingerprint rainbow is Brayden's and the handprint is Ella's.

I love how they turned out and love that I have some new St Patty's day decorations to display!

very concentrated :)

St. Patty's Day 2013

We had a great St. Patrick’s Day this past weekend– Now that I have kids, celebrating these smaller holidays are so much more fun! I have started a tradition to always give them something small for each holiday (obviously more for bigger holidays) – I think this just makes them feel extra special and I love doing it. 

This St. Patty’s Day I gave Brayden a small treat, I found the idea from a blog I love, Repeat Crafter Me – let’s just say he was very excited when he received this! Ella, well, she didn’t get anything because my rule is you have to be over 1 J Thankfully she won’t remember she didn’t get anything.

 

The kids had St. Patty’s Day outfits (of course!!) so pictures were a must!  Brayden will only give me 5 seconds now a days to take his picture (I really hope this is only a short short phase for this picture taking obsessed Mama!) so I was lucky to even get these!

I would have to say the best part of the day was when we were eating our corned beef Brayden took my face into his hands and got really close and said “You’re beautiful Mommy” – melt my heart!! I don’t know if it was sincere or if he was manipulating the situation because he didn’t want to eat, but either way, I ate it up.  That is until a minute later he said “Daddy, you’re beautiful too!” LOL This boy is just too darn cute, I love how sweet he is.