Paddy's Day for kids?

jester77

My daughters creche likes to celebrate the different cultures of the children that attend. I've been approached and asked for some tips on how St. Patrick's day is celebrated. I've not lived in Ireland for around 20 years and when I was a kid, St. Patricks day was church, parade, pub.

What's the done thing now for St. Patricks and anyone have tips for little children on how to celebrate it? Beer has been ruled out already :pac:

SEPT 23 1989

church isn't very popular anymore so its just the parade and heavy drinking

MarkY91

Not a hope the parade will be going ahead this year..

Stevieluvsye

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

church isn't very popular anymore so its just the parade and heavy drinking

And it'll be just heavy drinking this year

salmocab

Crèches here do similar for kids from other backgrounds. It’s a nice thing, I would say let them know that for some it’s a religious celebration but for most it’s a day to celebrate Ireland. Dressing in green and maybe teaching them an Irish song or two along with maybe some simple Irish folklore would be nice.

Trigger Happy

Our creche have their own little parade around the car park on the last working day before St Patricks. Kids dress up in green etc...

But there is no way I would be bringing my kid in to the city to see the parade.
We did that when he was a baby and I remember seeing some woman stumbling down fleet street, out of her skull on booze, but she had shat herself. White leggings too.

Nah, its not a family event!

jester77

salmocab wrote: »

Crèches here do similar for kids from other backgrounds. It’s a nice thing, I would say let them know that for some it’s a religious celebration but for most it’s a day to celebrate Ireland. Dressing in green and maybe teaching them an Irish song or two along with maybe some simple Irish folklore would be nice.

Nice ideas.

I have a few boxes of green Guinness hats from over the years, could bring them along. Plus I have some folklore books, unfortunately they are all in English but they do have nice illustrations.

EmmetSpiceland

Dress them in green and stick a bit of shamrock on them. They hardly need more than that.

Maybe tell them about the snakes bit?

Leg End Reject

Make shamrock out of green paper, play some Irish songs, basic Irish dance and learn how to say hello and goodbye in Irish.

whisky_galore

A plastic glass of Coke topped with whipped cream... pretend Guinnesses.

Hande hoche!

Cancel it citing coronavirus concerns.

salmocab

jester77 wrote: »

Nice ideas.

I have a few boxes of green Guinness hats from over the years, could bring them along. Plus I have some folklore books, unfortunately they are all in English but they do have nice illustrations.

I’m sure one of the teachers could translate from English to whatever language they use. Children of Lir things like that would be good, then maybe a bit about 800 years of oppression no doubt wherever you are can relate to it as they’ve almost definitely either been at war or somehow taken over with the sassenach at some stage. Sorry about the last bit but it’s after hours

cj maxx

Wear green and burn a union jack

Leg End Reject

Leprechaun story.

corner of hells

Can you get hold of a snake ?
Maybe a decent sized python, release it into the creche, go in a beat it to the death.
You'll attain the status of a saint or superhero amongst the kids.

chrissb8

Have a fry

skooterblue2

Trigger Happy wrote: »

I remember seeing some woman stumbling down fleet street, out of her skull on booze, but she had shat herself. White leggings too.

Shamrock hairband, Check.
Naggan of Tesco Vodka, Check.
Bus ticket to the Parade, Check.
Just shat yourself in the middle of O'Connell street in white pants on Paddys Day?

You cant buy dignity but for everything else there is Master Card.

Badly Drunk Boy

I'd suggest that die kinder could dress in green (or at least have something small in green), draw or make shamrocks (possibly with the significance of the shamrock, if religion-talk is allowed), along with some examples of the Irish language, and a story or two. I suppose most of that was sort of mentioned already.