Seven Days of Luck - St. Patrick's Day

We didn't catch any leprechauns this year.

Collin's trap:

Reagan's trap:

But we did wake up to find green toilet water, a trail of shamrock stickers, and the annual treat of Lucky Charms - all from the leprechauns.

I made shamrock pretzel treats.

 Aren't they cute.  What would I do without Pinterest?  I love finding little things like this there.

I also let the kids know how lucky I am to be there mom.

St. Patrick's Day

This is what we found on St. Patrick's Day:

 Chairs tipped over!  Kate was funny, she just pointed and said, "MESS!".

Leprechaun footprints leading to tasty cookies made with natural food coloring (wise leprechaun!)!

There was green water in the toilet too, but I won't post pictures of that!

We didn't catch a leprechaun this year, but we'll keep trying!

St. Patrick's Day Part Two

Well, we didn't catch any leprechauns, but they did engage in a bit of mischief.

 We found shamrocks drawn on the bathroom mirror,

green footprints on the faucet,

 the couch cushions were turned sideways,

 C and R both woke up to find a shamrock sock on one foot,

and, of course, the toilet water was green!!!!!!!!

We also found a box of Lucky Charms cereal.  I would never buy that!  I let the kids have a bowl of cereal and when I added milk, it turned green!!!  Those pesky leprechauns.

At least they didn't mess with our corned beef and cabbage!

To Catch a Leprechaun

You must have shiny things, shamrocks, and rainbows to catch a leprechaun!  We have completed two traps so far.  This is C's trap:

He designed it himself.  I only helped him fold the cardboard for his rainbow stairs. There is a slide to lure the leprechauns inside the trap.  Who can resist a slide?

R and I made this one together.  We covered a box with shiny aluminum foil and then put shiny green shamrock stickers all over the box.  I folded the cardboard to create stairs, and she colored them.  We put a shiny shamrock slide inside the trap.

We are thinking of making one more leprechaun trap together as a family because we have a great box that might guarantee success!  Now, how should we spend that pot of gold?

(C and R were featured on Natasha's News, the blog written by Natasha Wing, author of The Night Before St. Patrick's Day.  Click here to see them over there!)

Leprechauns

Well, we didn't catch any leprechauns this year but they did leave a little bit of gold (chocolate covered!) for T, C, and R.


Everyone woke up with leprechaun kisses on them. The photos are a bit blurry but those are tiny shamrocks that must have smudged a bit while everyone slept.

Those crazy leprechauns even made our toilet water green!

Maybe we will catch one next year!

Leprechaun traps

In my last post I mentioned that we had been reading The Night Before St. Patrick's Day by Natasha Wing. It is definitely our favorite St. Patrick's Day book, and after reading it both C and R decided that we had to make leprechaun traps. So here they are:





The leprechauns will be intrigued when they see the gold, shiny box, the shamrocks, and the beautiful rainbow. Of course they will climb up the shamrocks and dive in; C and R will then outwit the leprechauns and find the pot of gold.

This is a leprechaun slide. There is a sparkly ladder on the other side for the leprechauns to climb. They will have to try the slide (see below) and again will be trapped!

C and R are very excited about their traps and were even more excited when Natasha Wing herself featured them on her blog. Check it out at http://natashawing.blogspot.com/2009/03/to-catch-leprechaun.html