St Patrick's Day Brunch

FOOD

This year, we had a brunch for St. Patty's Day.  We set up the food as a buffet (putting them in crock pots to keep warm).

Menu included:
Scrambled Eggs
Sausage
Oatmeal with fixings (brown sugar, cinnamon, dried cranberries, raisins, maple syrup)

Potato Cheese Soup (toppers of scallions & extra shredded cheese)

Corned Beef & Cabbage Paninis

Crab Deviled Eggs

Irish Soda Bread

Pastries
Brownies
Oh Ryan's Irish Potatoes

Drinks
Leprechaun Lemonade (yellow lemonade dyed green)

OJ
Coffee with Irish Creamer
Irish Breakfast Tea

Mimosas

Wine with green labels

Harp & Guinness beer

Baileys

Water bottles (with St. Patty's labels)

Soda


Games & Activities
We set up a kids table with some crayons and activities for them to do.
Roll-A-Leprechaun 

Coloring pages
Word find
Jokes
Trivia & MadLib from Snapfish

Decorations

Free Printables from How Does She 
Free Printables from Simply Create Designs on Catch My Party

Free Printable from Landee See Landee Do

Using picture frame coasters,
I inserted color printouts into the frame.
Used as spoon rests for the crock pots & coffee pot.
See photo below!

Dressed up an old wreath

For the labels on the lids of the crock pots, I used a cookie cutter to mark a shamrock shape on foam sheets.  After cutting it out, I used a sharpie to write, and wrote upside down on the other side (so that when the lids were hung up on the stand behind each pot, you could still see through the glass and read the sign).  To adhere them, I used an Elmers Glue Stick.  They stuck nicely, and the residue cleaned off easily with just some soap & water at the end of the day.

Kid-made Irish Heart craft/decoration:
-Paint a sheet of paper with green paint ranging from light to dark green.
-Let dry, then cut green paper into small squares.
-Cut out template into desired shape (heart, clover, etc.)
-Paste squares onto template in pattern from light to dark (or stripes, etc)





Recipes for:
-Potato Cheese Soup
-Corned Beef & Cabbage Paninis