Now that the Valentines Day madness is behind us, we look forward to the next holiday and holiday madness. Last year, my boys really got into St. Patrick’s Day, and in particular, if leprechauns were real or not. I found this cool tutorial for a leprechaun trap, and we went to town!
What you need:
- Round container (I used a Quaker Oats container)
- Green Paper, black paper, and yellow paper for decorations
- Sticks (for the ladder)
- Cotton Ball and Glitter (for the gold)
- Pocket Knife
This was a pretty easy craft, I had the boys cut out shamrocks and do all the gluing and taping. I put the cotton ball inside a box, let them coat it in watered down glue (to soak into the cotton ball), then glitter the heck out of it. **NOTE** Do this outdoors or it’ll look like a glitter bomb went off in your house. Then we found sticks and hot glued them together to make the ladder.
Here is what our finished trap looked like! The sign was very important, as we read that leprechauns don’t like to be told what NOT to do.
Here was the hole we put on top, then we put the “gold nugget” to cover up the hole. The theory was, leprechaun would see the sign, climb up the ladder to take the gold, then fall in and be trapped!
We put the trap outside the boys’ bedroom window. Here they are eagerly waiting for the leprechaun
And…here is what they discovered. Leprechauns can bust out of traps! You can tell by the outline of the leprechaun the next day. He did however leave some green footprints, and quarters for the boys.
