Another St. Patrick's Day has come and gone, and we have yet to catch a leprechaun! Knowing that they like to play tricks, we decided to set a trap! The kids worked hard on the hat. They colored shamrock after shamrock. We were so very determined to catch a leprechaun this year!!
The finished product. We placed a green and gold cookie and a gold bell on top as bait. The top was just a piece of paper. The whole point was for the leprechaun to climb up the ladder and fall in! We for sure thought it was going to work!!
We woke up and found lots of things the leprechaun did!! First thing we noticed was that he kissed all the kids on their brows. We knew we had a nice one this year, but also knew that wouldn't stop the tricks! He turned our toilet water green, our milk and drinking water green, we wrote on our eggs with green crayon...
...and every time I would make the kids something to eat, I would turn around for 2 seconds and he would turn all of the food green!! So we had to eat green eggs and ham with green milk for breakfast! For lunch, it was green food again!! We looked all over for him all day! The kids say they heard him laughing at us, but I didn't hear anything.
For dinner, we had to eat green food once more! We were all in the kitchen together, and some how, the leprechaun did it without anyone seeing!! He even was able to turn our caramel corn green while we were all sitting on the couch watching our leprechaun movie!! Those leprechauns sure are tricky!
While we were outside playing, he took our green and gold cookie AND our gold bell, without falling in! He did leave us a note thanking us for the fun he had. Maybe we can catch him next year!
O' tis fun bein' IRISH!
2 comments:
Becky, your Irish heritage has done you well. Perhaps, YOU were the leprechaun??? (In case you didn't know, Papa's family is from Ireland.)
k....Tylie must be hanging out with Malia...she always stands in her chair!!! I can't believe Tylie is that big...she has doubled in size!!!
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