Leprechaun Traps

The children are determined to catch a sneaky leprechaun, this year! We made traps as a family tonight and the kitchen is covered in Lucky Charms, green construction paper, and a lot of gold glitter! 

Reese's trap is a goldfish box with leprechaun snacks at the top. The leprechaun climbs the rope, follows the gold path to the snacks, then falls through a trap door. 

Quincy's trap is baited with a note and a bucket of gold. The leprechaun follows the instructions on the note, "pull rope and gold will come down on you." But when the rope is pulled, the lid to the box closes and traps the leprechaun inside. 

Corbin's trap has a ladder up to a gold trail that leads to a big hole. There is a bucket of lucky charms dangling over the hole and when the leprechaun tries to eat it, he will fall in the hole and get stuck on a bunch of tape. 

No leprechauns were harmed during the making of this post, but a lot of Lucky Charms were eaten. 

"It's Leprechaun Day!"

Last week, I gave the kids some craft supplies and they made a pretty impressive leprechaun trap. It had a ladder up the side of a tall box with leprechaun enticing things inside: a bed, a box of "gold", some lucky charms (always good bait) a few pennies, and a rock path that Reese made with glue and string. The idea was that the leprechauns would climb up the ladder on side of the box and jump inside, but not be able to get back out.

I didn't get a photo of it, but Reese used a cut pepper to stamp green shamrocks all over the box. It was pretty cute.

The leprechauns could not be fooled, and left a trail of skittles and leprechaun cookies to show us just how they escaped! Tiny glitter footprints were found on all of the rocks, and it was found hanging over the side of the box. They used it as a ladder! Those sneaky sneaky leprechauns...

They also left us a message in gold glitter on the side of the trap.

Until next year, leprechauns...until next year.

Luck o' the Irish

There was a leprechaun party up in here, last night! Rainbow Skittles and chocolate gold coins were left behind near our new books.

And the last of the milk? GREEN!

It will taste nasty because milk is disgusting delicious in our Lucky Charms cereal (which now has an unacceptable marshmallow to cereal ratio).

Top o' the morning to ya!