Next, have the potato race in the hall, and of course you know how to have a potato race!
Place the potatoes a foot apart in two long rows. Let two children race first, and they must lift the potatoes on a spoon, one by one, and carry them back to the basket. Whoever drops one is out of the race.
A box of candy decorated in green will be a good prize for the winner.
As a rest from the excitement of the potato race, the shamrock contest may come next, and this is just like the clover contest at your clover party.
Last of all, your friends must all kiss the Blarney Stone, for of course you know that whoever kisses the Blarney Stone will ever after say nothing but pleasant words. Place the stone (which you have had well scrubbed) in the center of a table and blindfold each of your guests in turn, and let them try to kiss it, and whoever is successful will be fortunate ever after, as the fairy tales say.
The supper table can be decorated very prettily for a St. Patrick’s party with green-shaded candles and ferns. After the lively games the “company” will enjoy creamed chicken with peas, potato chips (it wouldn’t be a St. Patrick’s supper without potatoes!), cakes with pistachio icing, green mint candy, and although pistachio ice cream would carry out the green color plan, yet it would be better to have vanilla, as there are many who do not care for pistachio. It would be a good plan to have a little souvenir at each plate.
On Easter Monday be my guest
(I hope it will be clear and sunny);