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Day of the Irish
Host the Best Bash West of Belfast!
Games and Activities
- Hot Potato: This fast-moving game is a great party activity. Have players stand in a circle about an arm's length from each other. Give the "hot" potato (a real potato but not hot) to one player with instructions to toss it to any other player as quickly as possible. Keep playing until a player either drops the potato and is out, or holds it longer than three seconds and is out. The last player left is the winner.
- Mr. Potato Head Contest: Divide the guests into teams or pairs, give them potatoes, cut-up veggies and toothpicks and have them create a crazy Mr. Potato Head.
- Make "Leprechaun Glasses": These special glasses are great for turning the world green. Cut shamrock-shaped frames from green poster board. Cut out the center of the frames to make eyeholes. Glue green cellophane over the back of the holes. Poke a small hole on each side of the glasses, insert pipe cleaner and twist to secure. Put on glasses, securing pipe cleaners around the ears, and take a look at your Emerald City.
- Have a limerick contest and tell the guests to make up funny limericks to share with the group.
- Sing along to Irish songs, such as "Danny Boy" and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling."
Refreshments
- Serve a cool and refreshing mint-flavored shamrock shake. Mix two cups milk, one banana and 1/2 cup mint ice cream in a blender. Blend until smooth and creamy and pour into glasses.
- Bake a shamrock cake. Bake three heart-shaped cakes and join them together at their tips to form a shamrock. Frost with green-tinted icing and top with gold coins and small leprechauns. Serve with mint green ice cream. (Make four small round cakes to create a four-leaf clover if you don't have heart-shaped pans.)
- Offer a stuffed potato bar. Add a little pizzazz to your Irish potatoes with a variety of fillers. Bake potatoes and offer guests a variety of toppings to put on top, such as shredded cheese, bacon bits, cubed ham, cooked peas, broccoli florets, chili, beef stroganoff, Mexican and Cajun seasonings.
- Make traditional corned beef and cabbage.
- For the adults, serve Irish whisky, Guinness stout and Irish coffee.
- Tint your foods and drinks green.
