Spencer came home from school every day this week with a new idea of how to catch a leprechaun. All I can say is that these ideas came from books read at school and classmates talking about it, because we have never made a big deal out of St. Patrick’s Day except for our yearly feast of Corned Beef and Cabbage (aka. New England Boiled Dinner). So as he is telling me how his trap was going to work and what he needed, I told him he had to come up with a diagram…a blue print if you will…this is what his plan looked like:
He informed me that as the leprechaun ran into the rubberband you see in the diagram it would slingshot him backwards into the other box and flip the box up on end so he couldn’t get out. He was going to put his fools gold he got from school on Monday as the bait, but we couldn’t find it, so we made a trek to the store for some gold coins instead. The finished project turned out a little different than the diagram, but there was a slingshot involved and he was so sure that we would catch a leprechaun. Here is his finished “Leprechaun Trap”:
Then the leprechaun set off the trap, but left more gold and a treasure hunt instead that Spencer and Josey absolutely LOVED! They had so much fun following the clues and were so excited to find the pot of “gold” at the end!
