St. Patrick's Day Cookie Pops

You will need:
� 20 vanilla wafer cookies
� 1/2 cup peanut butter
� 1 12-ounce bag white chocolate chips
� green and yellow gumdrops
� green Dots� candies
� green and yellow Nerd� candies
� cake decorating writer gel in green, yellow, red, orange, and black
� 1 tube of green cake decorator frosting with tip
� green and yellow decorator sugar
� green food coloring
� ice cream or lollipop sticks
� wax paper or paper plates


Instructions:

Spread peanut butter onto the flat side of the cookies. Place an ice cream stick into the peanut butter on half the cookies. Top with another cookie so the stick is sandwiched between the two cookies.

Melt chocolate chips. Before melting, seperate the white chips into two bowls. After melting, add a few drops of green food coloring to one of the bowls of white chips to make green chocolate.
Dip cookie pops in the melted chips, covering completely. Sprinkle with green and yellow sugar and lay or stand on waxed paper or paper plates. Place in refrigerator to chill.

Fun Variations

Leprechaun
After coating with white chocolate, dip top of pop into green sugar. Slice two yellow gumdrops to make beard. Allow to dry on wax paper. Use black and red decorator gel for eyes and mouth, and for trim on hat.

Rainbow with Pot of Gold
After coating with white chocolate, cut a green Dot in half lengthwise, adhere to chocolate. Before chocolate has a chance to dry, place 3-5 yellow candy nerds "in" pot. Create a rainbow with various colored decroator gel.

Shamrock
After coating with white chocolate, sprinkle with yellow decorator sugar, then draw on a shamrock using green cake decorator icing.

Four Leaf Clover
After coating with green chocolate, use green sliced gumdrops to create clover leaves. Slice a small strip out of remaining gumdrop for stem. Use a green candy Nerd for the center of the clover.

Rainbow Streamers

What You Need

� 1 paper plate
� Rainbow colored paper streamers or ribbons, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
� Scissors
� Stapler or tape


How To Make It

1. Cut a large circle out of the center of the paper plate.
2. You can let the children decorate the ring if they wish.
3. Cut 1 streamer or ribbon of each color about 18" long.
4. Staple them to the plate as shown - tape will also work.

Pot of Gold

What You Need

� Shallow small yogurt cup (we used Dannon Sprinkl'ins)
� Gold Candy Coins
� Scissors
� Black spray paint
� Gold paint pen, optional


How To Make It

1. Wash and dry thoroughly the yogurt cup.
2. Spray paint the yogurt cup with black paint. Let dry. You may need to spray a few coats to cover.
3. Fill your "pot" with "gold".
4. Use a gold paint pen to write on a name on the pot, if desired.

Coin Barrettes

This project is rated VERY EASY to do.
What You Need

� New (or shiny pennies)
� Store bought barrette (the kind sold in craft stores)
� Glue
� Imagination sprinkled with patience.


How To Make It

1. Gather shiny pennies. Enough to complete project. I usually use five pennies for large hair Barrettes and three pennies for smaller ones.
2. Arrange pennies as you want them to be on barrette and glue them in place one by one.
3. Allow 24 hours for drying time for most glues.
4. ENJOY! ENJOY!