Time to Get Ready for St. Patty's Day!

Planning a Saint Patrick's Day Party!

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• Shamrock Decorations
• Green Cookies And Candy
• Green Shamrock Mylar Balloons
• Irish Beers
• Movies
• Green String Lights
• CDs Of Irish Pub Songs
• Lime Jell-O®
• Green Balloons

Step1

Think green and silly when it comes to decorations. Put up green cutouts of shamrocks and leprechauns on the walls and in the windows. Blow up a few dozen green balloons and pile them into corners.

Step2

Tie a few green mylar shamrock balloons to the front of the house or the front gate and screw a green "party" lightbulb into the outside light so that your guests will know where the party is.

Step3

String green Christmas tree lights (available year-round via the Internet) across the ceiling.

Step4

Place a big rock (or fake papier maché rock) right inside the entrance with a sign that says, "BLARNEY STONE - KISS FOR GOOD LUCK."

Step5

Pass out "Kiss me, I'm Irish" buttons to your guests as they arrive. Make everyone wear them.

Step6

Create a table of green munchies, including green cookies, green M&Ms and chips with guacamole (See "How to Make Food Green for St. Patrick's Day," Related eHows). Serve them out of green plastic leprechaun hats.

Step7

Set tables with green tablecloths, napkins and cups and sprinkle shamrock confetti on tables and other flat surfaces.

Step8

Serve both a traditional Irish beer (such as Guinness) and a cheaper light beer that you can dye green with food coloring; don't forget the green Jell-O shots!

Step9

Hold a limerick contest - after people have had a few drinks - and award a silly prize to the winner.

Step10

Buy a CD of classic Irish pub songs and have it playing in the background and/or rent the horror movie "Leprechaun" and have it playing (with the sound muted) on your TV.