One Lucky Mamma

I am one lucky mama.

I have six beautiful, healthy kids. I get to spend time with my kids each day. I always have food to feed my kids when they’re hungry. I have a testimony of Jesus Christ. I have a home in a safe neighborhood. I have a loving husband. I have supportive extended family. I have a dishwasher that I absolutely love. I have curbside grocery pickup just a few minutes away. Yes, life gets stressful and sticky, but I am definitely one lucky mama.

What list can you create of why you are one lucky mama? I know you are a lucky mama too. 

Another thing that makes me a lucky mama is that kids make holidays so fun. The day of good luck charms – St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner! Here are some fun ideas for you and your little ones. I enjoy life most by being easy going. It is my style. Keep it fun, but easy for yourself too. Pick one or two of the ideas that look simplest for you to do with your sweet family and surprise your crew!

1. Start the day with a themed breakfast!

   Green pancakes (hint: no food coloring is used!) and a fruit rainbow are my favorite for St. Patrick’s Day!

Green Pancakes (No food coloring!)

Ingredients:

2 cups packed fresh spinach

2 cups buttermilk

2 large eggs

2 T oil

2 cups flour (my favorite is white whole wheat)

2 T sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

Directions:

1. Combine spinach, buttermilk, eggs, and oil in a blender. Blend until smooth.
2. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
3. Pour wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Stir until combined.
4. Heat a griddle over medium heat and grease with butter or oil.
5. Pour about ¼ cup green pancake mix for each pancake. Cook for about two minutes, then flip and cook for about 1 more minute.
6. Serve and enjoy! If syrup always results in sticky anxiety like it does in my house, serve plain or with some butter or honey. My kids love these! They are truly amazing! Even my picky four-year-old who insisted pancakes with spinach would be disgusting ate three!

Fruit Rainbow

I used the easiest fruits I know my family loves for each color of the rainbow: raspberries, cutie oranges, bananas, kiwi, blueberries, and blackberries. It took me only 8 minutes to prepare and I felt like a super mama for feeding my little ones a nutritional holiday breakfast!

2. Create a treasure hunt!

The ending treasure can be anything you choose – a green dollar store necklace, a special note, a pile of pennies, a chocolate gold coin, Lucky Charms or Trix cereal, etc.

Click on our printable for ready-to-go treasure hunt clues!

3. Play St. Patrick’s Day charades!

Click on our printable for an easy one page printable including treasure hunt clues as well as St. Patrick’s Day charade words on the bottom!

4. Dinner

Caesar Salad with green cucumbers (hello, store bought package of Caesar salad!)

Angel hair pasta with pesto sauce (hello, store bought canned pesto!)

Green Punch (rainbow sherbet ice cream with a drop of pineapple juice and 7Up)

5. Deliver Lucky Charms Rice Krispie treats to a neighbor (and of course save some for your family as well!).  This treat is incredible and is definitely an annual dessert my family will look forward to year after year on March 17th!

Ingredients

4 T butter

1 10.5 oz plus 2 cups mini marshmallows

5 cups Lucky Charms cereal

Rainbow Sprinkles, optional

Instructions

1. Butter a 9×13 pan
2. Melt butter on low heat in a large non-stick saucepan.
3. Add 1 10.5 oz package of mini marshmallows and stir on low heat until they are melted into the butter. Then add in the last 2 cups of marshmallows and let them melt partially. This is the secret to amazing rice krispie treats!
4. Add in the Lucky Charms cereal and stir until the cereal is fully coated.
5. Pour mixture into prepared buttered pan and spread around evenly with large spatula sprayed with non-stick spray or butter.
6. Gently press mixture down into pan evenly.
7. Optional: Add rainbow sprinkles immediately and press into treats.
8. Let treats sit for about 2 hours and cut into squares.
9. Cover treats after cutting if not delivering or eating right away.

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day you lucky mammas!

P.S. Want more ideas of fun things to do with your kids? Our online preschool curriculum is loaded with fun ideas like these. Learn more here. 

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