St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner! It falls on a Monday this year and there are plenty of activities to keep you and your family celebrating the day. Whether your family enjoys the outdoors, cooking or eating together, music and dancing, doing arts and crafts activities, or just spending quality time as a family, there are plenty of family friendly St. Patrick’s Day celebrations for everyone. Your garage doors Atlanta GA experts are as excited about St. Patrick’s Day as you are and we all gave our opinions on what are the best ways to celebrate the holiday with your family, whether you love in Atlanta, Marietta, Sandy Springs, or other city around Metro Atlanta.

Local Events

Check out your local news websites. Many cities throw family friendly parades. Dress the family up in green and shamrocks and head out to watch the St. Patrick’s Day Parade roll through your town or join the one in Atlanta! Many towns have an Irish American Heritage Center that will be open to all to celebrate the holiday. You and your family can enjoy a family friendly event that will involve Irish food, music, and traditional dancing. Many of these festivals will include face painting, stories, and an arts and crafts section for children to participate in. Cities with children’s museums may offer activities related to St. Patrick’s Day as well.

Decorate the house

Decorate your home with your family. Buy St Patrick’s Day related decorations and hang them up inside and outside your home. Decorate your garage doors with shamrocks, leprechauns, or even hang green and orange lights above the garage doors to make your home more festive! Let the kids get creative and design their own St. Patrick’s Day decorations to hang around the home.

Cooking

Preparing St. Patrick’s Day foods can be another way to celebrate with your family. Create a St. Patrick’s Day menu for dinner- with traditional Irish soda bread, corned beef and cabbage and a rainbow cake with green icing for dessert! If your family enjoys cooking together, create a dessert together. Instead of baking a cake, bake cupcakes together and let the kids ice them. Bake shamrock shaped sugar cookies and ice them together. Or create homemade shamrock shakes for everyone to enjoy!

Fun activities

Spend a few hours playing St. Patrick’s Day games or activities with your family. Build a leprechaun trap together to catch a leprechaun to guide you to his gold. Leave a trail of chocolate coins to the trap to lure the leprechaun to it. Or create a treasure hunt for your family and search for the leprechaun’s gold at the end of the rainbow together. Hide little bags of chocolate coins throughout your house and yard, creating a scavenger hunt to do as a family. Create Irish instruments together like a bodhran Irish drum, which is a traditional Celtic instruction. Listen to music together that uses a bodhran Irish drum and play together as a family. After a day of family fun, settle in and read books that celebrate the holiday together. Together you can read books about Ireland, leprechauns, or St. Patrick.

St. Patrick’s Day can be about more than just green beer. You and your family can spend a day enjoying family friendly St. Patrick’s Day activities together, no matter what your family enjoys doing.

Please share your own ideas in the comments below for fun activities on St Patrick’s Day!

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