About once a month, Reese's teacher sends home a "family project".
The assignment this month was to design and build a leprechaun trap together.
We kept our design pretty simple.
1) Leprechaun is lured in with rainbows, shiny stickers, and a tiny bowl of Lucky Charms cereal. (just the marshmallows, Reese decided that was the only part of the cereal a leprechaun would be interested in. Sounds familiar...)
2) Lepprechaun steps on trap door to get the free food (like Reese's sign? hahaha)
3) Leprechaun falls through trap door into a popcorn chicken container.We thought he might like it if we went "green" and made him a prison from recycled material.
Reese wanted to include dollhouse furniture, and food and water for her leprechaun. I pointed out that he wouldn't be imprisoned for long, so the lucky charms would be enough. Also, leprechauns are very smart and very tricky and if we gave him furniture, he could stack it up and use it to climb back out.
Instead, she made a finger puppet leprechaun friend to stuff down in the hole with the leprechaun, so at least he won't be lonely. How thoughtful of her.
She has a list a mile long of all the things she plans to buy for herself when the leprechaun gives her his pot of gold.
Item #1 is a dog.
