The Leprechauns are Coming!

We have never done a whole lot to celebrate St. Patrick's Day at our house because that is Kraig's Birthday so we usually just celebrate the birthday. But, thanks to a little lesson at church where the leprechauns took the scriptures and the kids had to help find them, Tate was pretty interested by the whole leprechaun thing.  He really couldn't talk about anything else.  He had it all figured out how he was going to set a trap and catch the leprechaun and find out where he keeps his gold.  So, we did what all good parents would do and we played it up this year and had a lot of fun. The night before, Tate and Kraig set a trap for the leprechaun.  Tate knew that the leprechauns like to eat cereal, so they used cereal as bait and went to work.  Tate went to bed that night just sure that he would have a leprechaun the next morning. Well, the leprechauns came, set the trap, but were just too tricky. Instead they left a mess, footrprints, a note and some gold candy.  When Tate woke up that morning, he jumped out of bed and yelled, "Did we catch him? Did we get the leprechaun?"  and then ran downstairs to check. It was such a fun morning!

Kraig and Tate with their trap. They made a bed for the leprechan complete with a shamrock blanket and a pillow.  Then made stairs with the blocks so the leprechaun could get into the bed. Then they used cereal to make a little path from the door to the bed.   They tied a piece of string to the butterfly net so when they leprechaun touched the string, the net would collapse and catch the leprechuan. Pretty creative! 

A closer look at the trap.

This is what happened during the night.  The leprechauns came and made a mess.  The green on the floor is little leprechaun footprints.  They gold is little pieces of candy.  The trap fell, but there weren't any leprechauns inside, just a note. 

Tate showing his note and eating his chocolate.  The best part is that he got super excited to be able to clean it all up and wipe away the leprechaun footprints.  We really had a lot of fun with St. Patricks Day this year.