St. Patty's Day Gift for Child's Classmates

My kids love handing out little "gifts" to their classmates when a holiday rolls around. We also like to treat the teachers too (you can check out this recent blog post for an idea for the teachers in your life). Anyway, after Valentine's Day, I was browsing all the stores for their clearance "valentine" stuff (as I have posted before here, you have to be creative and you can usually find really good deals on past "holiday" stuff and make it fit for a holiday coming up) and found lots of interesting things at Target. One of them was a bag of bouncy balls. This reminded me of something I received for Christmas. I got this "ball ornament" from my mother-in-law that came with this little saying:

A Friendship Ball

A ball is a circle,
no beginning, no end.
It keeps us together like our
circle of friends.
But the treasure inside
for you to see
is the treasure of friendship
you've granted to me.
Today I pass the friendship ball
to you.
Pass it on to someone else
who is a friend to you.

This is what my mother-in-law gave me at Christmas.

The valentine bouncy balls on clearance.

So, of course I bought bags of the bouncy balls at 50% off. I changed the little poem so it would be more fitting for St. Patty's Day. My St. Patty's Day poem is as follows:

A Lucky Friendship Ball:

A ball is a circle
no beginning, no end.
It keeps us together like our
circle of friends.
But the treasure inside
for you to see
is the treasure of friendship
you have granted to me.
I am lucky to pass the friendship
ball to you.
Pass it on to someone
who is a friend to you too!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!


I printed off these poems and cut around them with decorative scissors and then I glued them onto some green scrapbook paper. I hot glued the ball to the paper (they will easily come off ). I think I am going to take a green highlighter and go over the word "lucky" with it.