Pot'o'Gold

Our goal today was to repurpose the pots we used for Valentine's Day into St. Patty's Day pots'o'gold. My younger son was completely uninterested, he's going through a phase like that, so in the end we had only one pot'o'gold. But it's all good.

All we did was paint over the pink, red and purple from last month, with black, black and more black. When we were done, we let it dry for a couple of hours. Acrylic paint dries pretty fast; one of the perks of using that kind of paint. My older son was insistent that I not help him in ANY way, so if there remain a few splotches of pot that are not black, that's just how we roll. Seriously, I'm way proud of him for putting this together almost entirely solo.

After our black pot was dry it was time to fill it up with the gold! We used Rolos and gold coin candies-- mixed them all up until our pot was overflowing with golden goodness. To top off our pot'o'gold we needed a rainbow, of course. We tried putting all the pipe-cleaner rainbows we made yesterday in various positions around, in, and over the pot, but the kids liked the arch one the best. Voila! A pot'o'gold to take it's place of honor in the middle of our table. Way adorable!