St. Patrick

Childrens Song for St. Patrick’s Day

March 15, 2011 By Lacy

As some of ya’ll already know, my 5 year old daughter loves to craft! But my 2 year old son… not so much, actually. However, I have found that he seems to respond really well to music! I’ve been trying to work more music into our activities, so we made up a little song for St. Patrick that goes with our Saint Patrick puppets.

So, I tried to figure out a way to sing a children’s song with a paper bag puppet on my hand in a you tube video without looking ridiculous, and basically determined there was no way around looking ridiculous… so I just went with it!

Lyrics to St. Patrick’s Day Song: a song about the trinity for kids.
(Tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)
St. Patrick shows to you and me a shamrock for the trinity.
The Father and His only Son plus the Holy Spirit are 3 in 1…
St. Patrick shows to you and me a shamrock for the trinity.

This really was a fun song to sing with our puppets, and kids eat stuff like this up with a spoon! Happy almost St. Patrick’s day everyone!

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Saint Patrick Puppet Craft {And a Linky!}

March 11, 2011 By Lacy

Ya’ll know I’ve been obsessed with making paper bag saint puppets, so today I bring you Saint Patrick!

The one above is made with just a lunch sized paper bag, paper, glue, and googly eyes. I drew on the crosses with a marker. Here’s a picture of the pieces before they went together:

His beard is shaped like a heart.

I folded the paper in half and cut it out like this:

I also folded my paper to cut out my shamrock:

Then I assembled him like so with school glue:

Before I glued my pieces together, I let my daughter use the pieces I cut out to trace her own pieces so she could draw and cut them out herself. She just turned 5 last month, and she made this whole puppet by herself! I am so proud!

I love how she glued the staff way up on his hand like he’s balancing it! For her shamrock, she traced our shamrock shaped cookie cutter and cut it out. I tried to get her to use cotton balls for his beard, but Vee from Paper Dali has a St. Patrick coloring sheet where his beard is black, and well…. Vee is a lot smarter than Mommy. Lol!

Here’s mine with a cotton ball beard:

The one above has a pipe cleaner staff, and the doily shamrocks I got at Michael’s. I love them! Wa also used some gold glitter glue to put the crosses on our shamrocks. Remember while you’re doing this to explain to the kids how St. Patrick taught about the trinity using a shamrock.

I decided they were so cute that I wanted to display them on the mantle in our dining room! So I just opened up the paper bags and slipped them onto liquor bottles.

The cute banner came from the Dollar Tree.

I hope you enjoy this Catholic St. Patrick’s Day craft- I know we did! These puppets are just too much fun to make with kids! Now I want to see what you’ve been doing to celebrate the feast of St. Patrick! If you have a post to share about St. Patrick’s Day, please link it below!

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St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Rosary for Kids- A Fun Craft!

March 7, 2011 By Lacy

When we were making our little rosaries the other week, we also made some trinity shamrock rosaries since St. Patrick’s day is just around the corner!

I also had some cute child-made ones, but my kids ran off with them. I’m having such a hard time photographing their crafts recently! Lol!

Aren’t these shamrock doilies too cute?! I got them at Michael’s, and overpaid. I think they were $2.50 a package. I have a serious thing for doilies.

To make these, follow my directions for making one decade pipe cleaner rosaries, and then bend them into a shamrock shape. You can find directions for bending pipe-cleaners into shamrocks here. I would suggest green beads and pipe cleaners, but to each his own.

Teach your kids the story of St. Patrick while they’re making their shamrock rosaries.

My kids watched Patrick, Brave Shepherd of the Emerald Isle while we made ours. This is such a cute movie for St. Patrick’s Day! My kids really enjoy the CCC movies.

If you don’t own this movie and the thought of spending lots of money on Catholic movies in this economy freaks you out, I’d like to introduce you to “Catholic Netflix”. Ok, really, they’re called Pius Media, but they really are just like Netflix for Catholics, and they have ALL the Catholic movies you could ever want to rent! If you’re already a member, don’t forget to add this movie to your current queue!

Also, I’m going to be hosting a St. Patrick’s Day liturgical link up later this week, so get your St. Patrick’s Day posts ready! I love seeing all of your ideas!