St.Patrick's Day

Green milk.  Green water.  Green grapes.  Green toilet water.  Leprechaun traps.  How did it all start?!  A few years ago when I was an avid Family Fun subscriber we built our first leprechaun trap.  The leprechaun brought goodies and socks and turned our fridge green.  The kids LOVED it!  Thanks to that one day, and the school system which totally encourages the holiday, we are big on celebrating this strange and crazy green holiday.  As soon as the boys walked in the door they set out on making their traps.  Yes, that was plural.  This year Nathan, Ryan and Annabelle all wanted their own trap.  And a neighbor stopped by so he too wanted to make a trap.  Luckily the kids are getting older and I can just hand them a box of crafts and say "Go to town."  I had to intervene a little when they decided to put sticky tape along the whole bottom of their boxes.  I found some contact paper that made is quicker and cheaper.  I think that each trap turned out great and the kids were happy with their creations.

 

 

 

 Bright and early this morning the kids ran downstairs to see if they caught anything.  They were a little hesitant (afraid that they actually caught one) and cautiously peered into their traps.  This is what we found in the traps:

The leprechauns were not fooled by the chocolate money and escaped.  Luckily he had to use his hat to climb out of the trap, thus leaving it for our kids to find.  We must have had three leprechauns this year as we found three hats, one in each trap.  It was a fun morning with bags of goodies (green oreos, andes mints, green gum, and green gummies), and cereal with green milk.  Our after school snack will be green pudding and green pringles.  Grandpa is coming over later for my favorite part of this holiday: corned beef and cabbage.  YUM!!!  While it may be a bit of work to pull all of this off, it is a lot of fun to see how excited the kids get before and after the leprechauns come. Happy St. Patty's Day!