St. Patrick's Day crafts

This wreath was the quickest craft I put together. I bought two shamrocks from the dollar store and hooked them together with green twist ties.

Total price: $2.00

This wreath took a little longer to make but was still pretty simple. It was pretty inexpensive to make also.

I bought a flat wreath form from Michaels using a 40 percent off coupon.

I decided to paint it green so it didn't stand out so much if some of it showed in between the shamrocks.

I glued the shamrocks on with Elmer's glue. When I went to attach the ribbon on the back, I decided I needed something stronger so I got out my hot glue gun. The Elmer's wasn't even holding the two ends of the ribbon together so I knew it wouldn't be strong enough to hold the wreath from.

Supplies for this wreath were: wreath form from Michaels, one package of shamrocks from the dollar store, paint, glue and ribbon.

Total cost: $2.50 - I already had the paint, glue and ribbon.

I also made this shamrock garland to put over my window in the kitchen which made it hard to take a picture of.

Supplies needed: one package of shamrocks from the dollar store, ribbon to tie them together, a hole punch and scissors.

Total cost: $1 for the shamrocks - I had the other supplies.

All in a days work!

Decorating for the holidays can be pretty inexpensive if you make them yourself. I'm sure kids would love to help out with these projects also.

Happy crafting!

More Pinterest recipes

Copycat Mexican Pizza from Taco Bell. I found the recipe here. I made two of these like the recipe says and each of us could only eat half of them. Next time I'm making one of them for us to split. I used the rest of the ingredients to make Nachos:

Next we tried some Asian food:

Baked chicken egg rolls with ham fried rice. I used this recipe for the eggrolls. I didn't have hoisen sauce so I used soy sauce. I also used chicken instead of pork because I had leftovers from a rotisserie chicken. We bought some sweet and sour sauce but didn't really like it so maybe I'll have to find a recipe to make my own next time. For the rice: I diced up some onion, green onion and ham and cooked it in a little olive oil. Then I added a scrambled egg and some cooked white rice along with some soy sauce and it was delish.

These are copycat southwestern eggrolls from Chili's with their avocado-ranch dipping sauce. I found the recipe here.

These were delicious! I left out the spinach and fresh parsley because I didn't have it and maybe I dislike spinach just a little bit. I also tweaked the sauce just a bit to my liking. I left out the vinegar and buttermilk and added some chili powder for a kick. I don't like avocados so I was a bit skeptical but it was great. My hubby wouldn't try it though. He doesn't like avocados either and wasn't willing to try it. The other thing I changed was that I baked these instead of frying them and they still tasted great! Bake at 400 degrees about 10 minutes on one side and 4 minutes on the other or until they look done to you.

And now for dessert:

Peanut better kiss cookies from Chef In Training. These were so good that me and the hubby went through these in about four days and then I had to make a second batch.

Cookie dough truffles. 

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
chocolate candy coating for dipping

If you are a cookie dough lover like me, you will love these. They won't make you sick either since there are no eggs in these. They are a little hard to dip. I have found that adding about one teaspoon of shortening to the melted chocolate makes the chocolate easier to work with.

Onto my next pinned recipe.......