Custom St. Patrick's Day Gift Ideas

Here are 8 ideas to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and bring in the Irish charm:

An outdoor romantic picnic

Dig that picnic basket from out of the basement or the attic and fill it with favorite foods. Focus on green. Order green eating utensils and personalized St. Patrick’s Day gift ideas ahead of time.  Find a secluded spot under a tree in a nearby park. Spread a blanket and break out a bottle of your favorite wine. One could add some green food coloring to the wine for added effect.

A green sweet tooth

After the St. Patty’s Day dinner, select desserts of Irish descent such as an apple tart that is served warm with sweet custard.  Cupcakes donned with green frosting are a great capper to a great dinner.  You can always serve these delights in Irish coffee mugs for an added touch to the décor of your gathering.

Love notes

Get an assortment of love cards with accompanying envelopes. Pen love notes using a green ink pen and scatter them all over where your lover will be throughout the day and maybe with hints where the next card may be!

The pot of gold

Go to a discount store and buy a small bowl or pot filled with gold chocolate coins.  Using those coins make a trail leading to some hidden part of your backyard for some chocolate delight.  The little ones are sure to love this idea!

Hide and seek

Buy a bag of green marbles.  Hide them around the house for a fun version of hide and seek.  Divide your guests into teams and ask them to find these marbles within the specified period of time. Then switch up!  The one group to find the most marbles can redeem for gift ideas like shamrock shaped coasters or shotglass printed with the date of your party.  Who’d a thought playing marbles as an adult could be so fun?

Some Irish comfort

Using common foods found around the kitchen such as potatoes, sausages and bacon, make an Irish steamy stew, some corned beef brisket with cabbage.  Perhaps try a tender chicken or a lean lamb to put together with potatoes, carrots, onion, mushrooms, favorite herbs, etc.  Don’t back off of the spices either.  Of course, if your guests are vegetarian, they’ll know just what to do.  They’ll skip the meat and find other things to enjoy!

Green beer?

One could just head to the closest Irish pub for the evening.  Along with badly sung stanzas of ‘Danny Boy,’ and a pint of green beer, just colored for the occasion, might be a fun way to pass the night.  Don’t get too carried away though, because one just might find himself or herself dancing a jig on top of a table.  With today’s social media just about everywhere, that could be disastrous to explain at the office next morning.  Of course, friends might see or think green (money) to not reveal the night’s activities!

Parading through town

Do some investigating ahead of time to see if and when the local St. Patrick’s Day Parade may be marching through town.  Find a way to join the happy marchers.  Don the Irish green and support the local Irish. And don’t forget to get matching group t-shirts to celebrate the holiday in style!