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!
- Print your Ireland Placemat
- Print your Ireland Passport and Passport Cover
- Print your Paper Doll from Ireland
Background Info of Ireland
Let’s learn about Ireland
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. There are a few tutorials online of how to create a Celtic knot that we’ll study first.
- Celtic Knot Patterns
- Learning to Draw Celtic Knots
- Tutorial of How to Draw a Celtic Knot
- How to Draw a Celtic Knot
- Video of how to draw Celtic Knot
Celtic Knot Cookie
Using a few simple ingredients we took an icon of Ireland 
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.
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.
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
Participating Blogs
Enchanted Homeschooling Mom, Glittering Muffins, Here Comes the Girls, Juggling with Kids,
Kid World Citizen, Kitchen Counter Chronicles, Little Artists, Mermaids’ Making,
We invite you to come join along with us on our journey with cooking with our kids each month! You can follow on our Around the World in 12 Dishes Facebook Page and Around the World in 12 Dishes Pinterest Board . Each country will remain open for the year so you have plenty of time to join the fun and share!
Please link up your own Dish or Craft about Ireland in our linky below!
Mark Your Calendar and Join the Fun Each Month!
Next Month is France… get your France Passport and France Placemat now!
Click here to Explore our Countries and Recipes from our Last Journey
St. Patrick’s Day Activities {Click Here}
Marie-Claude Leroux says
March 28, 2013 at 6:56 amThese look great! Celtic knots are so beautiful – all the better for them to be tasty too!
Ticia says
March 28, 2013 at 9:26 amOoohhhh, your celctic knots turned out great!
Mud Hut Mama says
March 30, 2013 at 4:42 amYour 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.
Valerie GlitteringMuffins says
April 3, 2013 at 1:25 pmLooking good and yummy mama! Very complete post. Thanks for participating again this year 🙂
Frances Evans says
April 13, 2013 at 7:23 amI 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.
Leanna @ Alldonemonkey says
April 21, 2013 at 1:15 pmOoh, those look beautiful AND delicious! And thank you for sharing so many great resources!
Mud Hut Mama says
April 21, 2013 at 6:10 pmI 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.