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Ireland for kids

March 11, 2013 By Ticia 22 Comments

Last year, I have to admit I didn’t do as good of a job as I wanted to with our cooking around the world, and I completely missed Austria……..  That recipe turned out not quite right, and would make for a great comic post………..  This year, I’m excited to announce all of the countries ahead of time, so you can join in more easily! We’re starting off with some time in Europe and heading over to France next.

irish beef stew

For Ireland we made: Irish beef stew and beer bread.

Irish Beef Stew and beer bread

Irish Beef Stew

based loosely on Irish Beef Pub Stew

Irish Beef Stew ingredients: 2-4 pounds of beef stew meat, 1 can tomato soup, 1 can of water, 1/4 cup of apple juice, 4 carrots cut up, 6 potatoes cut up, onion powder (forgot to buy onions), pepper and salt to taste, garlic

1.  Heat a fry pan to high, then brown the meat for just a few minutes to seal in the juices.

 

peeling carrots for Irish beef stew

2.  In the meantime send your kids over to peel carrots and potatoes (you can just clean the potatoes, but my family prefers no skin).

cutting carrots for Irish beef stew

3.  Chop up the carrots into pieces about an inch or so long.  Then chop up the potatoes into bite size pieces as well.  Dump all of this into your slow cooker.

mix ingredients for Irish beef stew recipe

4.  Add everything into your slow cooker and stir it to mix it all up.  Now turn your slow cooker on low if you remembered to do this in the morning.  Or if you’re like me, and remembered to do it about 2:00 in the afternoon, turn it on high and hope it cooks really fast.

 

Irish Beer Bread

ingredients: 2.5 cups of self-rising flour, 1 warm beer, 2 tablespoons sugar

1.  Amuse the heck out of your husband because his teetotaler wife has asked him to get a bottle of “good beer.”

2.  Measure out the flour and sugar, and pour in the beer.

3.  Lightly mix it together, then put it in a greased loaf pan to cook.

4.  Cook at 375 for 45 minutes.  While it’s cooking pat yourself on the back for making homemade bread.

5.  Eat 2 of the mini-loaves yourself and don’t share them with anyone.  Oh wait, maybe that’s just what I did…………  Either way, we devoured most of it that night.

Ireland lapbook

On to our learning adventures about Ireland:

Ireland paper doll

We made paper dolls of the people with Making Friends Paper dolls.

Ireland lapbook

Than we created a lapbook……….

We used the first two pages of the Ireland Passport Glittering Muffins made for us (I printed them onto 1 page, and made it into a booklet).  Then I printed out Enchanted Homeschooling Mom’s Ireland lapbook pages for facts about Ireland.  I also printed out the foods from Ireland from Homeschool Share’s Ireland lapbook.

 

Saint Patricks' bell craft

We made Saint Patrick’s bell.  I loved that I could find a picture of the Saint Patrick’s bell in its case to show my kids.  We also read St. Patrick and the Three Brave Mice, which the kids have made us reread about 10 times since we first read it.  They’ve also been carrying it around rather obsessively. Super easy craft, directions are in the Ireland printable I created.

Saint Patrick's Day book and craft

As they were busy painting, I started making a Saint Patrick peg doll, inspired by this little guy.

Saint Patrick peg doll

I can’t quite decide if I want to draw a face on him or not.  I still want to add some gold trim, but my gold paint pen had dried up…….  Poor Ticia

 

design a leprechaun trap printable

Then we designed leprechaun traps from the printable I made.  I loved the creativity my kids had.

 

Finally we listened to the Adventures in Odyssey episode about Saint Patrick and read about his explanation of the Trinity using the Shamrock (also in the Ireland printable).

 

All in all, quite a successful study.

Saint Patrick's Day ideas

Follow Ticia Adventures in Mommydom’s board Saint Patrick’s Day for kids on Pinterest.

I’ve got a few ideas for Saint Patrick’s Day on my pinterest board, but if you’ve got a great post, I’d love to add more (stick it in your comment, and I’ll pin it, or if your post is learning about Ireland add it to our Ireland linkie!

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Filed Under: geography, Homeschool Holidays, recipe Tagged With: Around the World in 12 Dishes, country studies, Europe, Saint Patrick's Day

Comments

  1. Lindsay @ Bytes of Memory says

    March 11, 2013 at 6:23 pm

    Yum!! Sad I missed out on that tasty dinner! I need to make some shepherd’s pie soon!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      March 12, 2013 at 8:57 am

      Everyone else in my family loves shepherd’s pie. I”m the odd man out. I’m just not a big potato fan. Now Superman…….. He LOVES potatoes.

  2. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful says

    March 11, 2013 at 7:07 pm

    What a great study! That stew looks SO good. I pinned it.

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      March 16, 2013 at 12:08 am

      It was amazing!

  3. Lula B says

    March 12, 2013 at 8:41 am

    This looks so much fun! Love Princess’s colouring. Great opportunity to get the kids peeling veggies, too!
    Lucinda (on holiday in France – the food’s good! :-))

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      March 12, 2013 at 8:57 am

      We’re headed to France next, what should I teach them about it? I keep thinking of the Eiffel Tower and the French Revolution. The Eiffel Tower is helpful, the French Revolution is probably not so helpful.

    • Lula B says

      March 13, 2013 at 3:07 am

      Well we are enjoying croissants and “les pistes” this week so not a great deal of French culture apart from the scrummy hotel food! Oh and C(9) is the only English speaker in her ski lesson so she has learnt a lot of French words for “sorry” as the kids all crash into each other 😀

      We are having fondue tomorrow night which is typical food of the Savoy (French Alps) region.

      Enjoy your “visit” to France!

  4. Tiffany says

    March 12, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Looks fun! I’m looking forward to st.patty’s games and crafts as well!

    Reply
  5. Valerie @ Glittering Muffins says

    March 14, 2013 at 8:51 am

    Wow you went all out this time! Thank you for this awesome post and your participation 🙂

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      March 16, 2013 at 12:08 am

      My “goal” is to get more done this year……. That’s the theory anyways…..

  6. Natalie says

    March 18, 2013 at 2:55 pm

    This is quite amazing how much you got done. Yay for Ireland!

    Reply
  7. Varya @ littleartists says

    March 22, 2013 at 9:04 am

    Love your post!!! So informative and you did everything: cooking and craft! Bravo!

    Reply
    • Ticia says

      March 22, 2013 at 2:34 pm

      Thanks! It’s the first time we actually did both a craft and cooking within the same month.

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