You don’t have to cook corned beef and cabbage for a busload of guests or paint your house green to show that you have St. Patrick’s Day pride. Instead, you can celebrate the holiday in a more low-key fashion by completing some of these simple projects:
1. Bake Glazed Mint Chocolate Chip Brownies
Ingredients for Brownies:
3/4 cup Cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup butter or margarine, melted and divided
1/2 cup boiling water
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1-2/3 cups (10-oz. pkg.) Mint Chocolate Chips
Ingredients for Glaze:
2/3 cup powdered sugar
3 teaspoons of milk
Green food coloring
Directions for Glaze:
Combine powdered sugar and milk in small bowl.
Stir in few drops green food color.
Directions for Brownies:
Heat oven to 350 degrees and grease a 9 by 13-inch baking pan.
Stir together cocoa and baking soda in large bowl.
Add in 1/3-cup butter.
Add water and stir until mixture thickens.
Stir in sugar, eggs and remaining 1/3-cup butter; stir until smooth.
Add flour, vanilla and salt; stir until well blended.
Stir in mint chocolate chips.
Spread batter in prepared pan.
Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan.
Cool completely in pan.
Drizzle glaze over brownies.
Cut into bars.
Makes about 36 brownies.
2. Make Shamrock People
Give kids a piece of white paper, and a shamrock shape cut out of green construction paper. Have the children glue the shamrock onto the paper, and then draw a body using the shamrock as a head.
3. Make Cereal Rainbows
Materials:
One box of Fruit Loops (or generic fruit loop cereal)
White paper
Pencil
Glue
Directions:
Have children draw a rainbow on the white paper.
Instead of coloring the rainbow, glue Fruit Loops in the empty spaces to create a colorful cereal rainbow. You can also add a pot of gold (filled with yellow Fruit Loops) and a Leprechaun to your picture.
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