My kids really love to celebrate holidays, so the St. Patrick's Day crossword puzzle was a big hit, but I wanted to keep it going. Here are a couple fun Dot-to-Dots for St. Patrick's Day that are also coloring pages!! Print and enjoy!St Patrick's Day dot to dot (PDF) We also have a lot of other fun printables you will want to check out! … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Crossword Puzzle Printable
My kids love it when I get really into holidays. I try to spread the celebrations out so that it builds the excitement for the holiday that is coming. Today I have a St. Patrick's Day crossword puzzle for you to print for your kids. The questions are easy enough that it can be completed by elementary school kids (my Kindergarten, however, couldn't answer most).If you are looking for a little more St. Patrick's Day printable fun, consider my puzzle pack! This set includes:2 … [Read more...]
Holiday Printable Bingo Boards – Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter
The beginning of the year is pretty fun because we have 3 fun holidays right after each other - Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Easter. The kids are always excited to celebrate these holidays and so to make it easy, we created a bingo game for each of them. When the kids ask what are we doing to celebrate, I bring out the bingo boards. If you want to make it extra fun, buy daubers that are related to the holiday. For example, candy hearts for Valentine bingo, green beads for St. … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Snack Bags
St. Patrick's Day is here so here is a quick little treat bag idea for all your little friends.We just got some sketch pens for the Silhouette and so we decided to try them out on the Silhouette Portrait for this project.There are 4 main steps in this project: Step 1: Print The first thing you need to do is print bag tags using your printer. This will only print the chevrons, white text bubble, "I'm", "to be your Friend" and the registration marks (the black square and the … [Read more...]
Rainbow Chow Recipe
Rarely do we buy sugared cereal. We get cereal like Raisin Bran that has some sugar in it but we really try to stay away from having Fruit Loops or Marshmallows and Stars too often. My kids will get a box of their favorite cereal for Christmas and Birthdays but that's about it. The other day I was visiting a bakery and was inspired by an item in the shop. What if we had a snack made out of those yummy, but sugary cereals. Rainbow Chow was born!Rainbow Chow Ingredients1 Cup … [Read more...]
Mint Oreo Cookie in a Cookie
Sometimes my crazy plans actually turn into really yummy recipes. In this case, I wanted to put some mint Oreo's in my FAVORITE chocolate chip cookie base (no chocolate chips) so I tried it. I purchased a box of mini mint Oreo's and went to town! This cute green treat is perfect for St. Patrick's Day! Mint Oreo Cookie in a Cookie Ingredients:2 1/4 cup flour1 tsp. baking soda1 tsp. salt1/2 butter/margarine1/2 shortening3/4 cup packed brown sugar3/4 granulated … [Read more...]
Silhouette Tutorial: St. Patrick’s Day Pixelated Shamrock Pop-up card
The Back Story As I was writing the Pixelated Heart Pop-up card post, I went back to the site where I got the card templates, to get links to include in my post. On the sidebar I noticed that there are pictures of other tutorials on the site and I found these Pixelated Christmas Pop-up cards. I thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool if there were pop-up cards for all the major holidays. I searched the site for any other holidays besides Valentine's Day and Christmas, but I couldn't find any so … [Read more...]
The DIY Shop
Welcome to the Making of a Mom DIY Shop! Here I have assembled some of the craft ideas, DIY ideas, printables and more for you to easily purchase. I know sometimes we have intentions of making the craft, or gathering different printables to entertain our kids, but it just doesn't happen. Here is an easy place to purchase the kits. I have done the work for you!Products are listed in the order they fall throughout the year. Keep scrolling to see everything. All Occassion Personalized … [Read more...]
Chocolate Mint Brownies
Mint is one of my favorite flavors. It's also my go-to flavor. If we are getting ice cream, I'll probably get Mint Chip. If we are getting fudge, I get mint. I LOVE it! Today I want to share these tasty Mint Chocolate Brownies. The brownies are from scratch but you can feel free to use a box mix if you want. I think I actually prefer the box mix because those tend to be chewy brownies and these homemade ones are very cake like. These recipes come from my favorite Hershey's 100th Anniversary … [Read more...]
Sponsored Video: Ireland Wishes You Happy St. Patrick’s Day
This video has been sponsored by Tourism Ireland, but the thoughts are my own.I love to travel! I have a bucket list of places I'd love to visit one day. My goal is to mark off one place each year to make my list more manageable and to give me things to look forward to on a yearly basis! It makes planning my family vacations pretty easy this way.A few years ago my sister in law visited several countries as part of a study abroad program. During that trip she spent some time in Ireland. … [Read more...]
Lucky St. Patrick’s Day Printable Banner
This is such a happy time of year! It's time to pack away the hearts and get out the lucky four leaf clovers. It also is the season of beautiful bright colors signaling the beginning of Spring!I love offering you all free printables! I have for you today a FREE 'Lucky' printable banner to help decorate your home or classroom for St. Patrick's Day! Just open the printable banner pdf and print! On the printable are directions for attaching the pendants to string or twine. Enjoy! … [Read more...]
Pot of Gold Cupcakes + Rainbow Printable
It's time to start celebrating St. Patrick's Day! Between treats, crafts, Leprechaun traps and all things green, March can be a very fun month! Get ready because we have a couple ideas to share to help you celebrate St. Patrick's Day big!Themed food is a fan favorite at our house. Every time a holiday is approaching I get asked if we can have themed food, mostly treats. First up in our St. Patrick's Day themed food department are these cute Pot of Gold Cupcakes. We have designed these … [Read more...]
St. Patrick’s Day Roundup!
Since my Valentine Craft and treat posts were so popular I decided to jump on St. Patrick's Day and share some craft and treat ideas I found! On The Magic of Ordinary Things, she made a darling fabric wreath for St. Patrick's Day! She includes a tutorial and it looks pretty easy. I think I may attempt this since I am lacking in green decorations!While we are on the topic of wreaths, how about this super cute felt wreath by My Frugal Family? I LOVE it! And as the name of the blog … [Read more...]
