Trapping Those Tricky Leprechauns

All week those tricky leprechauns have been playing silly jokes on us! On Monday, they flipped our calendar numbers upside down and re-arranged our coats and shoes into a large shamrock pattern on the floor of the coat room. Yesterday, they flipped our clothing bins upside down and after nap we found tiny green footprints and crumbs.... leading away from the Irish soda bread that had been cooling off on the kitchen counter! This morning, we arrived to find even more tiny green footprints all around the coat room and our cubbies.

We decided to build a house for a leprechaun so we could try and lure one and catch it in the act of trickery. We collected all kinds of art materials and recycled objects for our project. 

The preschoolers had all kinds of ideas about putting the materials to good creative use. Eli set to work taping up one of the cereal boxes to make a bedroom for the leprechaun to sleep in.

Nolan and Austin worked together to draw green marks all along the egg carton bridges that we taped between two of the boxes for our leprechauns to walk across.

Using our imaginations and working collaboratively with our friends was fun. We giggled and laughed a lot as we worked together.

Layla and Eli worked together to hang scarves and attach straws to make a secret hole (or trap door) that would fall down when a leprechaun tried to walk on it.

Nolan demonstrated how two leprechauns might walk up the stairs to get to the shamrock that Layla cut out to decorate our little house.

Here is our finished leprechaun village. After class time we walked over to the grocery store and picked out some golden eggs and some Lucky Charms so we can use them to lure the leprechauns into our creation. We'll check first thing in the morning to see if we have caught any!