Welcome! I am a mom to two wonderful kids, a lovely retired greyhound, and a wife to a great husband. Needless to say, there are a lot of daily messes to clean up around our house. Daily Messes is my blog to share ideas on things to do with your kids, snack and meal ideas, crafts, and holiday fun. I hope you find something to enjoy!
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

St. Patrick's Day Fun (Food, Activity, & Leprechaun Visit Ideas)

The kids also both know the secret behind the leprechaun visit, but still want him/her to come. They still really get a kick out of finding the Elf, the Leprechaun visit/treats, and finding their Easter baskets, so I'm going to try to keep finding new ways to surprise them. 


Below are my St. Patrick's Day food, activity, craft, and leprechaun visit ideas. I have some St. Patrick's Day-themed Word Finds/Search/Hunts, a maze, and a coloring page down below under the CRAFTS, FUN, ACTIVITIES section. I'll update this post if I come up with any new ones. 



FOOD:
  • Breakfast:
    • Rainbow and Shamrock pancakes. Once I started using condiment bottles and candy-making/decorating bottles, the shapes were easy to do. I made regular pancake batter, separated into 4 bowls, added food coloring (blue, green, yellow, red). I then placed one color in each bottle and piped the shapes onto the hot skillet/griddle. Once the pancakes were done, I placed them on a plate and added whipped cream clouds under the rainbows.
  • Lunch:
    • Lunchtime fun: cut bell peppers width-wise to get a shamrock shape, add a chocolate gold coin under a sandwich, make lunch all green (see leprechaun visit below). 
  • Dinner:
    • Shepherd's Pie. Another easy dinner for St. Patrick's Day. This is a mild recipe. We like a little more seasoning in our dishes, so I add diced garlic, fresh ground pepper, and paprika to the meat. A little chili powder might also be nice. For the potatoes, I also added fresh ground pepper and used sharp or extra-sharp cheddar cheese. 
  • Bread: 
    •  Almost every year we have Beef Stew with Soda Bread for St. Patrick's Day. (The kids aren't huge fans of corned beef yet.) The soda bread tastes best when you make it the day before, or at least the morning of. We love eating it with beef stew.  
    • Rainbow bread. One year, I made a braided loaf of bread with rainbow colors. After mixing the dough, I separated into equal pieces (I think 5), dyed each section a different color, rolled out the strand, and braided. We used it to make french toast and rainbow sandwiches for St. Patrick's Day.
  • Dessert/Snacks/Drinks/Misc.: 
    • Shamrock sucker napkin rings.
    • St. Patrick's Day Shake. My version of the shamrock shake.
    • Hidden Shamrock Pound Cake. Shamrock shape hiding inside the pound cake. 
    • Oreo Gold Coins. There are a couple of ways to make these cookie coins. 1. Spray one side of the cookie with Wilton Gold Color Mist Spray (edible). Let dry. Turn over, spray other side, let dry. 2. Dip in yellow/gold candy melts or yellow-colored white chocolate. 
    • Pretzel coins. Buy round pretzels. Locally, I can only find these at Meijer, but I'm sure other stores must carry something similar. Dip the pretzel in melted yellow candy melts. Place on a piece of wax paper. Fill in the center with candy melts. Let set. You could also pipe on a shamrock/clover in yellow or green candy melt. For extra shine, spray with the edible Gold Color Mist Spray. 
    • Rainbow cupcakes (version 1 and version 2). These are a little more time-consuming than regular cupcakes, but make a big impression when someone bites into them. Another option is to hollow out the center of a cupcake and fill with sprinkles or small candies. I haven't made these yet, because I hate biting into a cupcake and getting a bunch of hard candy in my mouth. Plus, it falls out everywhere. However, it is a surprise and kids love extra sugar. 
    • Make cookies. The boys love decorating cookies (and of course eating them!). I have a shamrock cookie cutter and we make sugar cookies. (Click here for a sugar cookie recipe that keeps its shape.) If you don't have a shamrock cutter, you can use a heart cookie cutter. Cut out 3 hearts, overlap the points and push down to join. Cut a small piece of dough for the stem and push down to add to the shamrock. Bake, cook, and decorate. I also made Pots of Gold cookies. I couldn't find a pot/cauldron cookie cutter and ended up using a cupcake cookie cutter. Once it was decorated, it looked really nice and like a pot of gold! 
    • Leprechaun Donuts. These could be made for the Leprechaun to eat when he or she comes to visit or to be left by the leprechaun for the kids to find. 
    • Pretzel shamrocks. Use mini-twist pretzels to form the shamrock shape. Dip 3 twists in green candy melt/green-colored white chocolate. Place on a piece of wax paper, with bottoms touching. There will be a small gap in the middle. Fill in with candy melt/chocolate. Break a piece of a twist or stick pretzel to form the stem. Dip in candy melt, place shamrock stem. Let set/dry completely. 

CRAFTS, FUN, ACTIVITIES:
  

LEPRECHAUN VISITS AND TREATS:
I hate cleaning up after the Elf and Leprechaun, so their visits are usually not very messy. Normally, the leprechaun leaves a trail of some kind leading to the pots of gold (treats are usually gold/yellow or green colors). 
  • Leprechaun Pots of Gold. I went a little crazy on our first leprechaun visit. I made a rainbow out of construction paper and taped it to the wall. Above the rainbow hung a cloud made of batting and it was raining jelly beans over the pots of gold. I should have used a clear thread to hang the cloud and jelly beans, but forgot to buy it. Be careful when stringing the jelly beans: the needle gets sticky very fast and can be hard to push the candy. Watch out for your fingertips! 
  • Leprechaun Treat Bags: how to make your own pot-shaped baggies. If you don't want to make your own, Wilton does sell a treat bag that has a bowl-type of bottom. You could cut out pot shaped piece of black construction paper and place inside (or tape to the outside depending on the filler for the bag), to form a treat bag that looks like a pot.
  • Make their lunch all green! They got a kick out of this last year. I think this would even work with older kids (maybe without the leprechaun note).
    • Include a note from the tricky leprechaun and include a gold chocolate coin as an extra treat.
    • Sandwich: Use green bread or green tortillas to make their sandwiches. I made peanut butter and apple wraps in a green tortilla.
    • Celery sticks with peanut butter.
    • Fruits & Veggies: kiwis, granny smith or golden delicious apples, green grapes, cantaloupe, pears, green bell pepper slices, celery, sugar snap peas, green applesauce (or at least with a green lid)
    • Sides: green chocolate dipped pretzels, green veggie straws/chips, green tortilla chips, green candy popcorn (see my Candied Popcorn post for directions, just use green, white, and/or gold candy melts), only green jelly beans/M&M's/Skittles
    • Green pasta: buy green pasta. My local grocery store usually carries Barilla and Ronzoni brands Veggie/Garden Rotini or spaghetti noodles. Sometimes they also have Ronzoni SuperGreens Rotini. If you cannot find the Garden/Veggie pasta at your grocery store, try adding green food coloring to the water before cooking regular pasta.
  • FINDING THE TREASURE:
    • One year, I wrapped rainbow crepe paper around the stair railings. There was also a trail of coin-shaped confetti leading to the hidden pots of treasure. I made sure to include a few dead ends, so it took them a little while to find their treats. 
    • Another time, I made rainbows for the trail. I used both regular rainbows and rainbows where the colors were in reverse order. The normal rainbow trail led to their pots. However, the reverse rainbow trails led to quite a few dead ends. The dead-end trails also had small pots, but they had a note that said "This one is a trick. Keep looking.". 
    • Make a scavenger hunt from the leprechaun for the kids to find their pots of gold. I did a small scavenger type of hunt last year. There were small pots hidden around. The ones that had the pipe cleaner shamrocks attached, contained the clues.
    • Some kind of a reverse trap. Normally, you set a trap for the leprechaun, but how about an obstacle course for the kids to get to their pots? In 2018, I made a crepe paper obstacle course for them to get to their pots. Higgins loves anything that resembles an obstacle course. If he has to crawl, jump, climb, or contort, he's happy. Last year I made an obstacle course out of paper chains with cutouts of shamrock and pot of gold shapes. The strings went from floor to ceiling.
    • Hide some plastic gold coins around the house. Have a few that have a voucher attached to them to trade in for actual money. 
    • Some fun pot of gold fillers:
      • Green, gold, or St. Patrick's Day-themed pencils or pens
      • Fun pencil toppers/erasers
      • Green or yellow bouncy balls
      • Bubbles (some party stores sell individual items so you can pick out a green or yellow one)
      • Shamrock stickers
      • Shamrock sucker (either store bought, or see shamrock sucker napkin rings for an easy to make shamrock shaped sucker) 
      • Green or gold Frisbee
      • Chocolate gold coins
      • Gold/yellow wrapped candy (mini Snickers, mini Reese's cups, Sixlets, Rolos, Starburst, Hershey Kisses...). Party City normally has bins where you can buy individual candy pieces and items for goodie bags. It's my go-to store for finding small filler ideas. Some stores carry single color bags of jelly beans (either prepackaged or fill-your-own bag stations).
      • Arcade tokens
      • Car wash tokens
      • St. Patrick's Day rubber ducks (shamrock, leprechaun)
      • "Gold" $1 coins (can usually get these from the bank) 
      • Small Nerf gun or ball (yellow or green)
      • Small water gun (yellow or green)
      • Yellow or green nail polish, hair bows, ribbons, bracelets 
      • Cars, toys, art supplies, beauty supplies...Pretty much anything your child likes, that happens to come in yellow or green colors, and will fit in the pot will work. Higgins loves to use my tape, so his pot of gold has had rolls of tape that have yellow or green covers to them.
      • Yellow hand sanitizer 
      • Socks: St. Patrick's Day-themed socks seem to be a big hit. 
      • Books: (You know me, I love books and giving my kids books!)

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Christmas Ideas

Last year, we were traveling around the US and were not in town for Christmas. We did Zoom with family and friends and mailed gifts back. (Click here to see our travel blog.) I have craft/activity, food, and gift ideas down below.


ACTIVITIES & FUN:


CRAFTS: 

ELF: Here is the link to my elf post. I update it when I get new ideas.

GIFTS:

FOOD:
    DRINKS:

    SNACKS & APPETIZERS:

         MEAL ITEMS:

        BREAKFAST:

    DESSERTS:
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Friday, November 19, 2021

Thanksgiving Is Next Week!

Thanksgiving is November 25th this year; it's just a week away! This year we are back in town and will be able to celebrate with family. It was harder on the road during the holidays and not having the family celebrations. Below I have some of my ideas for Thanksgiving (food, crafts, activities, and books for kids). 

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!


FOOD:
 CRAFTS:
ACTIVITIES:

BOOKS*:
 
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

It's April Fool's Day!

Just kidding! Although the days are running together since our normal activities have been a little stalled. Here are a few ideas for fun, harmless pranks to play on your kids on April Fool's Day (which is actually tomorrow, April 1st).
JOKES/ACTIVITIES:
  • Soap: I made dinosaur soap dispensers (trust me, these are super easy) to make hand washing more fun for the boys. For April Fool's Day, try using bugs and toy snakes!
  • Play hooky! Get the kids ready for school and pull into the school parking lot. Then tell them "April Fool's" and take them somewhere fun for the day (zoo, indoor play area, putt putt, amusement park). Obviously, this won't work this year with many states under a Stay-At-Home order. There are still activities to do! Take a break from school work and play outside or play a board/video game with them!
  • Place plastic bugs, spiders or snakes in their lunch boxes/on their plates.
  • If you don't mind cleaning up a small mess, toilet paper (too valuable, use crepe paper or ribbons instead! lol) their room while they sleep.
  • For older kids (or even hubby): safety pin the corners of all their underwear together. When they try to pull out one, they will get a whole string of underwear.
  • Fill their closet or armoire with balloons and wait until they open it!
  • Carefully unwind some of the toilet paper roll. Place a dollar on the roll and roll back up. First one up wins!
  • Serve jelly beans with their lunch, but have them be unexpected flavors. There are a lot of options for gross and unexpected flavors such as Harry Potter Bernie Botts, Bean Boozled, Beer, Chili Mango, Tabasco flavored.
  • Place color fizz tabs in the faucets and/or bath tub (unscrew the faucet screen, place the tablet in, screw back on). When the water is turned on, it will be colored! (Don't use Easter egg dye tabs-this will dye things!) I saw this idea here, but don't have the right faucets for it. Let me know if you try it!
  • If you have the time in the morning, hide their tablet or school supplies. You can create a scavenger hunt or clues for them to find them. 
  • WORD HUNT (PDF link)
  • WORD FIND: See end of post for a jpg version, or click the PDF links below.
FOOD:
  • Egg Cupcakes: You may remember these from the Backward's Day post. These were a big hit with  my kids. They are vanilla/white cupcakes topped with an egg. The egg is made out of candy!
  • Egg Candies: For a fun snack for their lunch, try making egg candies. Melt white chocolate chips and pipe onto wax paper. You want it to look like a fried egg shape. Before it hardens completely, place a yellow M&M on for the yolk. Let set.
  • Colored Milk: Add a few drops of food coloring to their morning milk.
  • Make them wormy apples for a snack. Use an apple corer or sharp knife to cut a hole in the side of an apple. Place a gummy worm in the apple.
  • Place the bags of cereal in different boxes!
  • Meatloaf Cupcakes: Make mini meatloaves in muffin pans. Pipe on mashed potatoes for 'frosting'. You could even add a little food coloring to the potatoes to make the frosting look more realistic.
  • Cut a pound cake into strips. Toast in the oven to make them look like fries. Serve with a side of red frosting. DM Tip: Broil cake for about 20 seconds to brown. Watch carefully so they don't burn. Flip and toast the other side.
  • Fly ice cubes. Freeze plastic or candy flies in ice cubes and serve in their drink at lunch or dinner. You could also use raisins for an entirely edible version.



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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

It's Going To Be A Long 3+ Weeks

All (in-person) schools have been shut down in our state, starting this week, for three weeks (at least for now, although they implied it might go longer). We are doing home based schooling with online materials and worksheets provided by school. It's been a challenging couple of days trying to get the kids on a schedule and working on school work. Since they are home, they see it more as a break from school instead of home schooling. Eventually we will get into a good routine.

They may also be going a little stir crazy since we have been not going out with them since Friday to maintain social distancing and kids are super germ carriers. Yesterday we at least got to take a bike ride/walk when we took the dog out. There was no one else out. Today it is raining, so I need to find some physical activity for them to do indoors (maybe pushups and jogging in place?).

I'm making a list below of some ideas to help keep the kids busy. If you have any other ideas or links, please let me know in the Comments and I'll add to this!

I hope you all stay safe and healthy.

WORD FINDS/CROSSWORD PUZZLES:
SCAVENGER HUNT:
BAKING: My kids love helping in the kitchen, although it's mostly the taste testing part. I have lots of recipes on here that can help make something delicious and use up time in the day!

YOU TUBE ART VIDEOS: (My youngest loves to draw and we found these the other day.)
MOVIES: Movie theaters are also closed near us, but Universal is going to have some in-theater movies available for rent during this time. Here is a link to the article on CNBC.

SCHOOLING AT HOME: Many places are offering free videos or online options during school shut downs. I'm sure you have seen some of these before, and if you have any new ones, please let me know in the comments and I'll add them!
LOOK AT THE CLOUDS. I know we used to do this as kids, but I don't see as many kids doing it anymore. Find shapes, make stories about the clouds!

CRAFTS: I have a lot of craft ideas on here. Many have supplies you probably already have at home. Here are just a few:

Update: I will be gathering old posts in themed groups and will be posting under a At Home Activities series. I hope this will help while everyone is at home.

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Sunday, March 15, 2020

St. Patrick's Day Fun & Leprechaun Visits

This year, I haven't decided what the Leprechaun visit will be like. I went on a cleaning kick last month and just now realized I got rid of most of the leprechaun visit supplies. With the kids now out of school and at home doing online schooling due to the Corona Virus, I haven't been able to buy very much for St. Pat's or Easter. I do have some St. Patrick's Day themed Word Finds/Search/Hunts, a maze, and a coloring page down below under the CRAFTS, FUN, ACTIVITIES section. Hopefully these can help keep your kids a little busy tomorrow if they are at home as well.

The kids also both know the secret behind the leprechaun visit, but still want him/her to come. They still really get a kick out of finding the Elf, the Leprechaun visit/treats, and finding their Easter baskets, so I'm going to try to keep finding new ways to surprise them. This year, since my lack of prior planning left me without many "treasures", I may find a few plastic gold coins and hide them around the house. Some may have a voucher attached to them to trade in for actual money. We'll see...

Below are my St. Patrick's Day food, activity, craft, and leprechaun visit ideas. I'll update this post if I come up with any new ones.


FOOD:
  • Breakfast:
    • Rainbow and Shamrock pancakes. Once I started using condiment bottles and candy making/decorating bottles, the shapes were easy to do. I made regular pancake batter, separated into 4 bowls, added food coloring (blue, green, yellow, red). I then placed one color in each bottle and piped the shapes onto the hot skillet/griddle. Once the pancakes were done, I placed them on a plate and added whipped cream clouds under the rainbows.
  • Lunch:
    • Lunch time fun: cut bell peppers width wise to get a shamrock shape, add a chocolate gold coin under a sandwich, make lunch all green (see leprechaun visit below).
  • Dinner:
    • Shepherd's Pie. Another easy dinner for St. Patrick's Day. This is a mild recipe. We like a little more seasoning in our dishes, so I add diced garlic, fresh ground pepper, and paprika to the meat. A little chili powder might also be nice. For the potatoes, I also added fresh ground pepper and used sharp or extra sharp cheddar cheese. 
  • Bread: 
    •  Almost every year we have Beef Stew with Soda Bread for St. Patrick's Day. (The kids aren't huge fans of corned beef yet.) The soda bread tastes best when you make it the day before, or at least the morning of. We love eating it with beef stew.  
    • Rainbow bread. One year, I made a braided loaf of bread with rainbow colors. After mixing the dough, I separated into equal pieces (I think 5), dyed each section a different color, rolled out the strand, and braided. We used it to make french toast and rainbow sandwiches for St. Patrick's Day.
  • Dessert/Snacks/Drinks/Misc.: 
    • Shamrock sucker napkin rings.
    • St. Patrick's Day Shake. My version of the shamrock shake.
    • Hidden Shamrock Pound Cake. Shamrock shape hiding inside the pound cake. 
    • Oreo Gold Coins. There are a couple of ways to make these cookie coins. 1. Spray one side of the cookie with Wilton Gold Color Mist Spray (edible). Let dry. Turn over, spray other side, let dry. 2. Dip in yellow/gold candy melts or yellow colored white chocolate. 
    • Pretzel coins. Buy round pretzels. Locally, I can only find these at Meijer, but I'm sure other stores must carry something similar. Dip pretzel in melted yellow candy melts. Place on a piece of wax paper. Fill in the center with candy melts. Let set. You could also pipe on a shamrock/clover in yellow or green candy melt. For extra shine, spray with the edible Gold Color Mist Spray. 
    • Rainbow cupcakes (version 1 and version 2). These are a little more time consuming than regular cupcakes, but make a big impression when someone bites into them. Another option is to hollow out the center of a cupcake and fill with sprinkles or small candies. I haven't made these yet, because I hate biting into a cupcake and getting a bunch of hard candy in my mouth. Plus, it falls out everywhere. However, it is a surprise and kids love extra sugar. 
    • Make cookies. The boys love decorating cookies (and of course eating them!). I have a shamrock cookie cutter and we make sugar cookies. (Click here for a sugar cookie recipe that keeps its shape.) If you don't have a shamrock cutter, you can use a heart cookie cutter. Cut out 3 hearts, overlap the points and push down to join. Cut a small piece of dough for the stem and push down to add to the shamrock. Bake, cook, and decorate. I also made Pots of Gold cookies. I couldn't find a pot/cauldron cookie cutter and ended up using a cupcake cookie cutter. Once it was decorated, it looked really nice and like a pot of gold! 
    • Leprechaun Donuts. These could be make for the Leprechaun to eat when he or she comes to visit, or to be left by the leprechaun for the kids to find. 
    • Pretzel shamrocks. Use mini twist pretzels to form the shamrock shape. Dip 3 twists in green candy melt/green colored white chocolate. Place on a piece of wax paper, with bottoms touching. There will be a small gap in the middle. Fill in with candy melt/chocolate. Break a piece of a twist or stick pretzel to form the stem. Dip in candy melt, place shamrock stem. Let set/dry completely. 

CRAFTS, FUN, ACTIVITIES:
 

LEPRECHAUN VISITS AND TREATS:
I hate cleaning up after the Elf and Leprechaun, so their visits are usually not very messy. Normally, the leprechaun leaves a trail of some kind leading to the pots of gold (treats are usually gold/yellow or green colors).
  • Leprechaun Pots of Gold. I went a little crazy on our first leprechaun visit. I made a rainbow out of construction paper and taped it to the wall. Above the rainbow hung a cloud made of batting and it was raining jelly beans over the pots of gold. I should have used a clear thread to hang the cloud and jelly beans, but forgot to buy it. Be careful when stringing the jelly beans: the needle gets sticky very fast and can be hard to push the the candy. Watch out for your finger tips! 
  • Leprechaun Treat Bags: how to make your own pot shaped baggies. If you don't want to make your own, Wilton does sell a treat bag that has a bowl type of bottom. You could cut out pot shaped piece of black construction paper and place inside (or tape to the outside depending on the filler for the bag), to form a treat bag that looks like a pot.
  • Make their lunch all green! They got a kick out of this last year. I think this would even work with older kids (maybe without the leprechaun note).
    • Include a note from the tricky leprechaun and include a gold chocolate coin as an extra treat.
    • Sandwich: Use green bread or green tortillas to make their sandwiches. I made peanut butter and apple wraps in a green tortilla.
    • Celery sticks with peanut butter.
    • Fruits & Veggies: kiwis, granny smith or golden delicious apples, green grapes, cantaloupe, pears, green bell pepper slices, celery, sugar snap peas, green applesauce (or at least with a green lid)
    • Sides: green chocolate dipped pretzels, green veggie straws/chips, green tortilla chips, green candy popcorn (see my Candied Popcorn post for directions, just use green, white, and/or gold candy melts), only green jelly beans/M&M's/Skittles
    • Green pasta: buy green pasta. My local grocery store usually carries Barilla and Ronzoni brands Veggie/Garden Rotini or spaghetti noodles. Sometimes they also have Ronzoni SuperGreens Rotini. If you cannot find the Garden/Veggie pasta at your grocery store, try adding green food coloring to the water before cooking regular pasta.
  • FINDING THE TREASURE:
    • One year, I wrapped rainbow crepe paper around the stair railings. There was also a trail of coin shaped confetti leading to the hidden pots of treasure. I made sure to include a few dead ends, so it took them a little while to find their treats. 
    • Another time, I made rainbows for the trail. I used both regular rainbows and rainbows where the colors were in reverse order. The normal rainbow trail led to their pots. However, the reverse rainbow trails led to quite a few dead ends. The dead end trails also had small pots, but they had a note that said "This one is a trick. Keep looking.". 
    • Make a scavenger hunt from the leprechaun for the kids to find their pots of gold. I did a small scavenger type of hunt last year. There were small pots hidden around. The ones that had the pipe cleaner shamrocks attached, contained the clues.
    • Some kind of a reverse trap. Normally, you set a trap for the leprechaun, but how about an obstacle course for the kids to get to their pots? in 2018, I made a crepe paper obstacle course for them to get to their pots. Higgins loves anything that resembles an obstacle course. If he has to crawl, jump, climb, or contort, he's happy. Last year I made an obstacle course out of paper chains with cut outs of shamrock and pot of gold shapes.
    • Some fun pot of gold fillers:
      • Green, gold, or St. Patrick's Day themed pencils or pens
      • Fun pencil toppers/erasers
      • Green or yellow bouncy balls
      • Bubbles (some party stores sell individual items so you can pick out a green or yellow one)
      • Shamrock stickers
      • Shamrock sucker (either store bought, or see shamrock sucker napkin rings for an easy to make shamrock shaped sucker) 
      • Green or gold Frisbee
      • Chocolate gold coins
      • Gold/yellow wrapped candy (mini Snickers, mini Reese's cups, Sixlets, Rolos, Starburst, Hershey Kisses...). Party City normally has bins where you can buy individual candy pieces and items for goodie bags. It's my go-to store for finding small filler ideas. Some stores carry single color bags of jelly beans (either prepackaged or fill your own bag stations).
      • Arcade tokens
      • Car wash tokens
      • St. Patrick's Day rubber ducks (shamrock, leprechaun)
      • "Gold" $1 coins (can usually get these from the bank)
      • Small Nerf gun or ball (yellow or green)
      • Small water gun (yellow or green)
      • Yellow or green nail polish, hair bows, ribbons, bracelets
      • Cars, toys, art supplies, beauty supplies...Pretty much anything your child likes, that happens to come in yellow or green colors, and will fit in the pot will work. Higgins loves to use my tape, so his pot of gold has had rolls of tape that have yellow or green covers to them.
      • Yellow hand sanitizer
      • Socks: St. Patrick's Day themed socks seem to be a big hit.
      • Books: (You know me, I love books and giving my kids books!)

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