The Leprechaun Trap

For St. Patrick's Day, Nathan's class was assigned to build a leprechaun trap. To do so, the children first learned about leprechaun behavior.

"They like gold."

"They like to play tricks."

"They are very tricky."

"They are disobedient."

"They are little."

Wendy worked with Nathan to brainstorm several ideas. Here are the highlights which Nathan shot down as infeasible. 1 - Place C-3PO in the vegetable steamer to attract the leprechaun. When the leprechaun gets in, C-3PO can close the vegetable steamer and trap the leprechaun. Rejected because the trap has to work. 2 - Place gold in the vegetable steamer to attract the leprechaun and Nathan can close it when the leprechaun gets in. Rejected because Nathan can't always watch the trap. 3 - Place gold underneath a box that is propped up by a stick with a string attached. Nathan would wait underneath Mrs. Woods' desk and pull the string when a leprechaun gets to the gold. Rejected because Mrs. Woods' desk is open underneath and the leprechaun will see Nathan. So we built a trap from a shoe-box. The shoe-box was flipped over and three sides of a square were cut into the box to make a trap-door. The leprechaun walks up on top of the upside-down shoe-box and when he sees the gold that is on top of the trap door, he steps on the trap-door and is caught in the box. We covered it with foil and glitter (a substance that I feel should be banned). Fun Times.