I’ve been chosen to do the St. Patrick’s day event at my school, (adult students), and I’m at an absolute loss as to what to do.
If this weren’t Taiwan, the choice would be obvious, alcohol fuelled mirth. Since it has to be a dry event…any suggestions?
Green fizzy punch, with a good head of foam.
Pinching for those not wearing green.
Sports.
Irish mythology.
snake pinatas? I made green popcorn (airpopped with green-colored butter sprayed onto it) and green orange juice (a few drops and you’d never know it had ever been orange). You could make green shamrock cookies, leave riddles about St. Patrick’s Day with hints around the school left by a leprechaun that would lead to a hidden pot of gold(en chocolate) coins and have the kids run around following them.
Sock snake puppets (long argyle socks with googly eyes glued on them).
Shamrock shakes would go over well. If they make them at McD’s in Taiwan then your set. If not, make 'em yourself and tell everyone to wear green. Don’t go overboard.
To be funny, go in with no green whatsoever except for green socks. When they freak out and say “Teacher! Why are you not wearing green?!?”, show them your socks. Then you’ll be showing them the true spirit of non-alcohol related St. Patrick’s Day in North America.
Anyway, a lot of things are green. Use your imagination. 
Tie a bicycle to the ceiling and charge 400 pounds a pint for Guinness.
Tell them the story about Paddy the Englishman in a dress who had an aversion to snakes.
Get one kid to dress up in orange and tell him to march up and down the classroom while the rest of the class tries to stop him.
Act out the potato famine by giving the kids tinned tuna for lunch but no tin openers. (Might be a bit esoteric for kindergarten.)
Pour a quarter bottle of Bushmills into an oolong tea bottle and let the kids watch Riverdance while you get completely blootered.
Alternatively, do absolutely nothing unusual at all, which is what the 4 million people of Ireland will be doing this Friday.
[quote=“hexuan”]Tie a bicycle to the ceiling and charge 400 pounds a pint for Guinness.
Tell them the story about Paddy the Englishman in a dress who had an aversion to snakes.
Get one kid to dress up in orange and tell him to march up and down the classroom while the rest of the class tries to stop him.
Act out the potato famine by giving the kids tinned tuna for lunch but no tin openers. (Might be a bit esoteric for kindergarten.)
Pour a quarter bottle of Bushmills into an oolong tea bottle and let the kids watch Riverdance while you get completely blootered.
Alternatively, do absolutely nothing unusual at all, which is what the 4 million people of Ireland will be doing this Friday.[/quote]
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Also try:
The first kid who gets to class can mock and abuse the next latest kid as being a newcomer without rights, and then THAT kid can turn around and deride the NEXT latest kid as the same, and then HE can turn around, etc.
Also tell them that, as far as what they want to do when they grow up, they can forget about any job other than fireman, cop, or saloon keeper.
Unless their Da gets stinking rich running bootleg whisky, then they can be President.
[quote=“hexuan”]Tie a bicycle to the ceiling and charge 400 pounds a pint for Guinness.
Tell them the story about Paddy the Englishman in a dress who had an aversion to snakes.
Get one kid to dress up in orange and tell him to march up and down the classroom while the rest of the class tries to stop him.
Act out the potato famine by giving the kids tinned tuna for lunch but no tin openers. (Might be a bit esoteric for kindergarten.)
Pour a quarter bottle of Bushmills into an oolong tea bottle and let the kids watch Riverdance while you get completely blootered.
Alternatively, do absolutely nothing unusual at all, which is what the 4 million people of Ireland will be doing this Friday.[/quote]
:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
Another Classic Post.
Two in a row is rare. Well Done.
[quote=“hexuan”]Tie a bicycle to the ceiling and charge 400 pounds a pint for Guinness.
Tell them the story about Paddy the Englishman in a dress who had an aversion to snakes.
Get one kid to dress up in orange and tell him to march up and down the classroom while the rest of the class tries to stop him.
Act out the potato famine by giving the kids tinned tuna for lunch but no tin openers. (Might be a bit esoteric for kindergarten.)
Pour a quarter bottle of Bushmills into an oolong tea bottle and let the kids watch Riverdance while you get completely blootered.
Alternatively, do absolutely nothing unusual at all, which is what the 4 million people of Ireland will be doing this Friday.[/quote]
Almost as funny as my school’s portrayal of African people as fat-lipped, grass-skirt-wearing, bone-through-the-hair, black cannibals chanting "Ooga-Ooga around a fired-pot sporting a pith-helmeted Brit!
Even after a St.Paddy’s-fueled massive hang-over… this post has to rate as one of the best… 