Decorate with Leprechauns for St. Patrick’s Day

Your home, classroom or party space are bound to look great for St. Patrick’s Day with Leprechaun themed decorations!

Welcome people to your St. Patrick’s Day party with a personalized Lucky Leprechaun Standee. You can add your own wording to the Leprechaun’s pot. It’s a fun decoration that you can reuse year after year. As an alternative, try the Personalized Lucky Leprechaun Wall Graphic. Add an extra touch to your Leprechaun with a rainbow mural or other St. Patrick’s Day theme decorations.

There are tons of decorating accents to add to your Leprechaun theme. The St. Patrick’s Decorating Kit includes tissue balls, tissue fans, foil shamrocks, die cuts, jointed leprechauns, St. Patrick’s Day signs, an Erin Go Bragh banner and garland. It’s perfect for creating a big impact on a budget.

Add tons of shamrocks with die-cuts and a St. Pat’s Cascade. The Shamrock Dizzy Dangler makes a great way to add a 3-D effect to your party ceilings. It fills out your decorating space and makes a fun light-catching touch. Another, similar option is a set of the Shamrock Jumbo Swirls.

Balloons are a classic party decoration. Rainbow mylar balloons are great accents to balloon bunches of shamrock pattern balloons. Bunches look best in odd numbers. Add the mylar accent for a special touch. Green curling ribbon is a must! Weight your balloon bunches down with mini cauldrons filled with candy, fake gold coins or sand.

Tie all your decorations together with tabletop supplies. Green tableware, Shimmering Shamrock Cups and a St. Patrick’s Day Spray Centerpiece are all great options. Create awesome placecards with Shamrock Nut Cups filled with goodies and marked with each guest’s name. They make good favors too. There’s even an Inflatable Beer Mug Cooler with a Shamrock logo perfect for a fun St. Patrick’s Day touch!

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Paint the Town Green with St. Patrick’s Day Decorations

Decorating for a St. Patrick’s Day bash is easy - use green, green, and more green! Here are a few tips to help you get started thinking like the Irish!

Indoor Decorations:

Start your decorating with a St. Patrick’s Day entrance. We offer a number of fabulous items that will be perfect for your party. Check out the Pot O’ Gold Entrance and our Lighted Shamrock Entrance Arch. Both make a stunning start to your event, and can also be used as a backdrop for photos!

An easy way to bring the Emerald Isle to your party is with our festive balloons. Hang them from the ceiling and tie them to your chairs and doorknobs to create a party atmosphere.

The Rainbow Mural is a perfect thing to place on a wall leading to the food table, or the “Pot O’ Gold” bar!

Welcome guests to your party before they even enter your doors by lining your front door and porch with Shamrock Electric Lights and a Shamrock 3-D Foil Banner.

No St. Paddy’s Day party would be complete without Die-Cut Shamrocks everywhere. Hang them on your walls, scatter them on the floor, use them as placemats, tape them to your cabinet doors - they will surely bring you loads of good luck!
Anywhere else in your room (that isn’t already covered with shamrocks) you can make green by covering it with green gossamer.

Outdoor Decorations:

Hang Erin Go Bragh Lights from trees, bushes, doorways, and more. Sprinkle some Four Leaf Clover Coins in a path to your front door to guide guests to the fun!

Table Decorations:

For your tables, stick with more green! If you don’t have a green tablecover in the linen closet - no problem, a plastic, metallic, or paper cover will do. We offer great Shimmering Shamrocks Tableware that provides you with everything you need for festive and fun dining.

For your centerpieces, purchase several different heights of green taper candles and place them in a bed of greenery. Add the luck of Ireland by placing an Irish Flag into the greens.

With a permanent marker, write your guests names on mini black kettles and place one at each place setting as name cards.

Show your guests just how much you care by offering green Imprinted Napkins. Tie them up with our Leprechaun Wire Garland for a festive display. There’s a large selection of dinner, luncheon and beverage napkins in an impressive palette of 20 colors. There’s also a wide range of ink colors, as well as a metallic foil, holographic foil, prismatic foil or a traditional ink imprint.

Napkins can be imprinted with your special wording and the design of your choice. They are soft and elegant, yet reasonably inexpensive. They are 3-ply to offer you a sturdy but extravagant feel. The napkins will serve several purposes - great decorating in disguise and a delightful memento of the party that can be saved in scrapbooks for years to come!

Napkins can be laid out on a buffet table, or can be displayed at each place setting. Place napkins in the center of each place setting at an angle, or unfold them and place them in glasses for a tall dramatic look. The napkins can also be tied (and bundled with plastic cutlery) with a multitude of items to match your theme. Try curling ribbon, gossamer streamers, ric-rac or ribbon.

Send Guests Off with St. Patrick’s Day Favors

Because wearing green is so important on St. Patrick’s Day (given the pinch factor), providing green for your guests is a good idea. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to make it fun and festive. Here are a few ideas to hand out to your guests for them to wear throughout the evening and then take home as favors:
• Green St. Patrick’s Day Hats
• Shamrock Funtoos Temporary Tattoos
• Irish Leis
• Shamrock Blinking Head Boppers
• St. Patrick’s Day Clover Beads

If everyone attending your party is wild and crazy and already has everything green imaginable, then pass out one of these ideas for a party boosting Irish favor!
• Shamrock Straws make the drinks even more fun!
• Shamrock Votive and Candles will help your guests keep the memory of your night alive at home!
• Personalized Mugs are perfect for serving as well as souvenirs! Have the glass mugs personalized in green with your name (plus an O’): O’Moyle St. Patrick’s Day Bash (include party date)

Food Ideas for a St. Patrick’s Day Party

We have two recommendations for food to serve at your Irish gathering. The first one is to stick to the Irish traditions and standards. This, of course, would include heaping piles of corned beef and cabbage, potato cakes, soda bread, and potatoes.
The second recommendation would be to serve it up all green. Remember that a little green food coloring goes a long way! For a main dish, select meat that works with a white cream sauce or gravy and color the sauce green. The guests may squirm a little at first, but that is all part of the fun! Other green ideas would be:
• Guacamole dip
• Spinach dip
• Leafy green salad
• Green beans, peas & other vegetables
• Green fruit like green apples and kiwi

Whatever you serve, add a tribute to Ireland by putting a few Irish Flag Picks in your serving dishes!

Of course, green beer is very popular for a St. Paddy’s Day celebration, but you can also serve green ginger ale or green Sprite. A fun punch to serve out of your shamrock-filled punch bowl is lime sherbet and 7-Up.

Irish coffee is another favorite for the hot beverage lovers in your group. To make your own, simply combine some Irish Whiskey, hot coffee, whipped cream, and brown sugar for some unusually fabulous flavor!

Cake Idea

A fun and simple cake that will make all you Leprechauns want more than just a bite would be our Pot O’ Gold Cake. Here are the instructions:

Bake a 9″ round cake and let cool. Cut the cake in half and place each CUT SIDE down next to each other on a platter. Frost the entire cake and make it a rainbow by either adding stripes of colored frosting or Skittles candy to the sides. At the base of one side of the “rainbow” place mini black kettle filled with four leaf clover coins.