St. Patrick’s Day only comes around once a year. Maybe your sweetheart likes to be pinched? Maybe you are looking for an excuse to say “Kiss me I’m Irish” or maybe your looking for an excuse to eat those Chocolate Gold Pieces, Skittles, or Lucky Charms, you loved as a kid? Whatever you do this St. Patricks Day, make the best of it and be sure that your leprechaun knows how much you appreciate them! Here is some of our favorite St. Patricks Day Date ideas.
- Start off with a nice Irish dinner. Check out THIS LINK The Kiss Me I’m Irish Corned Beef sounds delicious
2. Finish dinner with some Green Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream or check out some of these amazing desserts
3. Create some Magic. For this activity, you’re going to have to do some preparation beforehand. What you are going to do is impress your date with some cool magic tricks. When I was younger I loved to learn magic tricks. Magic tricks will impress your date, make them smile, keep them in anticipation of what is going to happen next and ultimately have them wanting to know more about you!
You can buy a magic kit at the store, or you can learn some free magic tricks online like http://www.learnmagictricks.org/, or http://www.goodtricks.net/frameset6.html
4. Play a game of darts. Darts is a traditional pub game originating in the UK and Ireland.
5. Leapin’ Leprechauns add some fun games to the night! Buy some four leaf clovers at the dollar store and write a variety of activities on the back of them. Tape them up to a wall and take turns picking a clover and doing the activity written on it. You can even split up the clovers between you and your date write down activities on your clovers. Then mix them up and hang them up. That way you’ll each have a say in what activities will take place
6. Irish Music: Listen to Enya. Enya is like the Irish Celine Dion. Or Better yet listen to U2. U2 is the greatest rock group on earth and they are from Ireland! You can also listen to some traditional Celtic music and bagpipes check out this link for some from Titanic where they go to an Irish party in 3rd class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBPiWZOJxAY
7. Finish the night of with a great movie. You can stream videos from Amazon including:
Far and Away, 1992 Tom Cruise movie about Irish Immigrants
Darby O’Gill and the Little People: Old Classic with Sean Connery it’s got leprechauns, pots of gold and more
You can watch FREE movies on YouTube like
Disney’s I captured the king of the Leprechauns
Droopy: An Old Kids Cartoon about Ireland and Leprechauns
Highlander The TV Series: Eye For and Eye Episode
Or you can watch something more historical and educational like
8. Tell some St. Patricks Day Jokes or Pick Up Lines Here are some of my favorites
“How many Leprechauns does it take to break the ice? None, I’m [insert your name] what’s your name?”
“I caught a leprechaun today but I’ll have to let him go because he did his job: I was lucky enough to meet you.”
“Why don’t you come catch a leprechaun with me, maybe together we’ll be lucky!”
“Well you caught me lassie! Now I can grant ye one wish, as long as it involves a date!”
“I thought you were a frosted lucky charm from across the room… Because you look magically delicious!”
“I thought your smile was the shimmer from a pot of gold, so I followed it and found something as bright and beautiful as a rainbow, turns out it was YOU.”
“You’re wearing green, I’m wearing green, we have so much in common that we should get together and go out sometime.”
“My lips are like the Blarney Stone. If you kiss them you’ll have good luck” 😉
“Did you know what a real Irishman wears under his kilt? Nothing … Irishmen don’t wear kilts.”
“You must be from Ireland because I’m ‘Dublin’ me efforts to get you to go out with me.”
What are your date plans this St. Patricks Day?
