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Celtic Knot Cookies from Ireland

Discover how to make beautiful Celtic Knot Cookies, a fun and delicious way to explore Irish culture with kids in this Around the World series!

Celtic Knot Cookie Recipes to make with kids
Ireland Recipes and Crafts for Kids
  • We’re traveling to Ireland: Grab a placemat
  • Background Info of Ireland
  • Create a Celtic Knot
  • Celtic Knot Patterns for Kids
  • Celtic Knot Cookie Recipe
  • Celtic Music
  • Ireland Crafts
  • Irish Recipes for Kids

Ireland Recipes and Crafts for Kids

We are so excited to be traveling the world by cooking dishes from Around the World with our kids! We have set a new course for this season of Around with World in 12 Dishes that includes 12 new countries!

Come join us as we take our children on a trip around the world without ever leaving our homes, well maybe a little to grab a few groceries for cooking and a few books for learning about the world!

We’re traveling to Ireland: Grab a placemat

Print Paper Doll from Ireland

Background Info of Ireland

  • Symbols of Ireland 
  • Books about Ireland
  • Folktales about Ireland

Let’s learn about Ireland by discovering a fact about the country through art and food!

Create a Celtic Knot

In many of the images from Ireland we noticed the patterns which are Celtic knots. We decided to learn what they were and how to make them. To make a Celtic Knot Cookie we practiced a little bit with play dough before we started so that we were familiar with the shapes and methods behind it.

This next week I hope to explore with my daughter how to draw them with some art lessons. They should appear that they have not beginning and no end so it will be quite a challenge and quite fun to learn how to do it.

Celtic Knot Patterns for Kids

There are a few tutorials online of how to create a Celtic knot that we’ll study first.

  • Celtic Knot Patterns 
  • Tutorial of How to Draw a Celtic Knot
  • How to Draw a Celtic Knot 
  • Video of how to draw Celtic Knot
Making shortbread cookies with kids to create Celtic Knot

Celtic Knot Cookie Recipe

Using a few simple ingredients we took an icon of Ireland and created our very own delicious cookie version of a Celtic Knot! We combined butter, sugar, vanilla and flour to create yummy shortbread cookie dough.

This was the first time I let my 6 year old use my big KitchenAid Stand Mixer all by herself with supervision, she was so excited. We followed this Shortbread recipe from allrecipes.com.  

Once our dough chilled a little bit we used a Cookie Press to create a line on dough that we were able to bend and form into a Celtic knot. You could also just roll the dough out into a snake shape then bend it into a Celtic Knot. 

Here’s the original recipe that inspired me to create our own Celtic Knot Cookie.

Creating Celtic  Knot Cookies with Kids to learn about Ireland

Celtic Music

While we were in the kitchen forming Celtic Knots we had such fun listening to Irish and Celtic music podcast. I love bringing music from other regions into our home and transforming us into other places! Here’s a few that were fun to listen to.

We even had a little afternoon fun trying to learn how to Irish Step Dancing! Here’s a beginning tutorial. And special post about Irish Dancing from ABC and 123.

And you can’t miss Murray learning about Irish Dancing on Sesame Street!

Then we created a few fun crafts about Ireland while we enjoyed our shortbread cookies in the shape of Celtic Knots.

Ireland Crafts and Recipes for Kids

Ireland Crafts

  • Sheep Craft 
  • Blarney Stone Activity & Craft 
  • Irish Blessing Cards 
  • St. Brigid’s Cross 
  • Potato Stamping

Irish Recipes for Kids

  • Irish Beef Stew From Adventures in Mommydom
  • Shamrock Potato Prints from Creative Family Fun
  • Apple Cake from Juggling with Kids,
  • Traditional Irish Dinner from Kid World Citizen
  • Guinness Beef Stew with Mashed Potatoes from Kitchen Counter Chronicles
  • Irish Flag from Mermaids’ Making
  • Soda Bread from Mummymummymum

Take a look at our top picks for St. Patrick’s Day Books for kids for even more fun!

St. Patrick's Day Books for Kids. A collection of the best picture books, read alouds and activities for St. Patrick's Day.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY BOOKS

Celebrate Irish culture with these delicious Celtic Knot Cookies—perfect for family baking fun! Try them out and share your creations with us!

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Filed Under: Cultural Education, Recipes Tagged With: Around the World, grade school, Ireland, Little Hands That Cook, Preschool, Recipes, St. Patrick's Day

About Kim Vij

Early childhood teacher, author, speaker and mom of 3. Kim shares ways to make learning fun and parenting an adventure by sharing developmentally appropriate activities.

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Comments

  1. Mud Hut Mama says

    April 21, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    I really loved this post and I've featured it in today's Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop. Please come grab your "I was featured" button and add another of your lovely posts to the new link up.

  2. Leanna @ Alldonemonkey says

    April 21, 2013 at 1:15 pm

    Ooh, those look beautiful AND delicious! And thank you for sharing so many great resources!

  3. Frances Evans says

    April 13, 2013 at 7:23 am

    I especially love everything is linked up from making the cookies, the music, the place mats, and learning about Ireland. Thank you for linking up at The Creative Kids Culture Blog Hop.

  4. Valerie GlitteringMuffins says

    April 3, 2013 at 1:25 pm

    Looking good and yummy mama! Very complete post. Thanks for participating again this year 🙂

  5. Mud Hut Mama says

    March 30, 2013 at 4:42 am

    Your cookies look great and I love all the activities you did to learn about Ireland! I have to show that Sesame Street clip to my girls – they are huge fans. Thank you so much for linking up to the Creative Culture Blog Hop.

  6. Ticia says

    March 28, 2013 at 9:26 am

    Ooohhhh, your celctic knots turned out great!

  7. Marie-Claude Leroux says

    March 28, 2013 at 6:56 am

    These look great! Celtic knots are so beautiful – all the better for them to be tasty too!

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