Saint Patrick's day is coming!

Who is St. Patrick?

St. Patrick was born as Maewyn Succat during the fourth century in Welsh-speaking Britain. His parents were very wealthy. His father was also a Christian deacon for tax incentive reasons. When Maewyn was about sixteen his family and their home were attacked by Irish raiders. Maewyn was kidnapped[4] and forced to become a slave working as a shepherd in County Mayo in Ireland. It was during his time as a slave that he turned to God. He had a dream one night to escape the next day and travel back home to Britain. The next day he did just that and travelled the 200 miles back home to Britain. Once he returned, Maewyn had another religious dream. An angel told him to become a missionary and spread Christianity back in Ireland. He then spent the next fifteen years training to become a priest and chose Patrick as his Christian Saint name.
In 432 AD he went back to Ireland as a priest. He tried to convert the Irish people from a Pagan polytheistic religion that worshipped the sun and the moon to Christianity. He also created and taught at many schools along Ireland's west coast. One of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity (the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit) to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of teaching and spreading God's word he died on March 17th 461 AD. Soon after his death the country of Ireland decided to remember his death with a day of his own and thus St. Patrick's Day was born. [5]


Awesome crafts for saint paddys day!:

Wearing one of these festive foam hats is a fun way for anyone to show off her St. Patrick's Day spirit.

Materials;

pencil
ruler
two 12- by 18-inch sheets of green craft foam
heart-shaped cookie cutter
scissors
hot-glue gun
masking tape
clothespins
3 green pipe cleaners
green ribbon

Instructions;

-First, mark and cut one sheet of foam (as shown). (Use wider circles for a larger hat.) See cutting instructions for a whole sheet.
-Cut the second sheet of foam in half lengthwise and glue the 5- by 6-inch rectangle to the end of one half. Allow the glue to dry.
-Roll the strip into a cylinder that fits inside the ring of foam (the hat brim), then glue the overlapped edges in place, using the tape or clothespins to hold them until the glue has dried.
-Make ¾-inch vertical cuts (approximately 1½ inches apart) around the bottom of the cylinder, as shown, then fold the tabs outward.
-Fit the brim over the top of the cylinder, pulling it down to the bottom, and glue the tabs in place against the underside of the brim.
-Glue the 7-inch circle onto the top of the hat.
-For the shamrock, glue one end of each pipe cleaner to the middle of a foam heart. Allow them to dry, then twist the pipe cleaners into a stem.
-Make two small cuts in the front of the hat, one above the other, close to the brim.
-Poke the stem in through one hole and out the other, bending the end so it rests on the brim.
-Finally, tie the ribbon around the hat, and it's ready to wear.

That is one way to show your spirt for saint paddys day!