Here are some ideas for fun and food that will give your party the Luck o’ The Irish.
To welcome each of your guests as they arrive, have each one kiss the blarney stone. You can make one out of a durable styrofoam and wrap green construction paper around it to make it look like a stone. Place the stone right inside the door as they walk in or you can place the stone right inside of the living room in one corner.
Buy a giant stuffed Leprechaun and make him the Door Prize.
Tell all your guests to come dressed in their best Irish garb and reward the best dressed couple with a bottle of Irish Crème Mocha.
Give the best dressed winner of the kids a bag of only green M&M;’s.
Drinks:
Serve lime punch and flavor it with lime juice, pineapple juice orange juice and ginger ale. Ladle into beer mugs with a twist of lime.
Whip up a St Patrick’s Day yummy punch with only two ingredients. Lime sherbet ice and a two liter bottle of 7-Up. Serve from a punch bowl into tiny beer bugs and make a sugar ring around the mugs and dip them in green
Decorations:
Place continers on the tables that are filled with green shaped clover leafed confetti and tie clover shaped green balloons filled with helium through out the house.
Tie a ribbon around green plastic bags filled with Lucky Charms Cereal and arrange on the tables.
Buy a bag of green M&M;’s and place them in several areas of the house for guests to munch on.
Food:
Make jello shots out of green jello cut out of different shaped craft cutters.
Make green colored sugar cookies and cut them out into shapes and write each guest’s name on one and place on the table by their plate.
Use cutters and cut out cheeses shapes and place them onto a toothpick along with an olive.
Serve Mint Chocolate Ice Cream with a sprig on mint on the side.
Make a vegetable tray and place celery stalks, sliced cucumbers and sliced green tomatoes on the plate along with cucumber dip.
Make green cupcakes with green sprinkles of different shapes of leprechauns and four leaf clover.
Games:
See who knows all of the words to When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Have a Sing Off contest with a Karokee Machine.
Have a glass jar and fill it up with clover shaped candy and have each guest guess how many are inside and win the jar of candy.
Let your guests and the kids make their own Shamrock hat. You can use empty one half gallon ice cream containers and decorate them as you wish. Give prizes for the two best “top” hats.
Have a treasure hunt for all of your guests to go search for the Pot of Gold. Hide the Pot of Gold somewhere in the house or outdoors. Make the pot of gold using a tiny pot with handles and paint the pot gold and fill it up with either lucky charms wrapped in gold foil or place little gold coins of chocolate inside. Make two of these and have one for the adults to search for and the other for the kids.
Have an arts and crafts table for the kids.
Place coloring books full of Irish pictures for them to color. Use only green and yellow crayons.
Let them glue Lucky Charm cereal on to construction paper and make four leaf clovers. Choose the best one and give the winner a green stuffed animal as the prize.
See how many balloons each person can pop within thirty seconds by sitting on them.
Play musical chairs and have Irish songs playing in the background.
Fill balloons with helium and have the guests sing an Irish song after sucking some of the helium from the balloon.
Play pin the Hat on the Leprechaun.
Go bobbing for Green Apples in a tub full of green jello or green colored water.
Have a special table in the house especially for kids only. Set the tables with green plates, napkins, spoons, forks. Serve them green jello cut into shapes of the Irish theme. Serve green potato chips and green dip.
Using cookie cutters make some sandwiches out of shapes and cut the cheese into different shapes.
Serve the kids their drinks in tiny plastic champagne glasses and fill them up with green Kool Aid.
Serve French fries with green ketchup.
Place green shaped balloons at the kids table with their names on each one and they can take them home with them.
Make a grab bag of prizes for each game played. Let the winner choose one prize from the grab bag. Be sure and wrap each one in gold foil. Have a separate grab bag of prizes for the children.
End the evening with all of the guests in one big circle and have a toast. Have everyone raise their glasses and yell all together, “Slainte.” (pronounced ‘Slawn-cha’) which means Health.
