Happy Feast of St. Patrick!

Things to Do on this Irish Feast Day

* One story of St. Patrick, easily read aloud to children here.

* The official Catholic Encyclopedia entry on St. Patrick here.

* You can find a list of easy St. Patrick's Day crafts and coloring pages here.  And a bunch more ideas listed on AWTY for things to do on this day.

Catholic Cuisine, as always, has lots of great recipes and ideas to celebrate the feast day.

* You can go here to find out what "Reek Sunday" could possibly be -- and what it has to do with Croagh Patrick,  and go here to see  how you can participate in "St. Patrick's Purgatory."

* Then go here to find out why blue is really the color of St. Patrick and Ireland!

* Find some teaching aids for the day here.

* Run over and look for St. Patrick's Day activity on the Leprechaun cam in Tipperary.

* Make some leprechaun traps to catch a leprechaun  (or mice!) at your house!

* Color some St. Patrick's Day pages.

* Play leprechauns; have one child wear an Irish hat or green bow tie and hide a treasure (real or represented by a drawing) that the other children have to find. The finder gets to be the Leprechaun next.

* Have some corned beef and colcanon. Make some blarney stones for dessert.

'Beannachtam na Feile Padraig!'

Happy St. Patrick's Day, friends!

For St. Patrick's Day shenanigans spanning many of the years we've been blogging....  click here.:)

Click and print for an easy coloring page.  .