Build a Leprechaun Trap!

Set your trap on St. Patrick’s Eve before going to bed. If you wake to find a treat in your trap, you caught a leprechaun!

1.  Use a jar, box or empty tissue box to build your leprechaun trap.

2.  Decorate your trap using rainbows, shamrocks, stickers, glitter or anything else you think might lure a leprechaun.

3.  Create a trapping mechanism at the entry point of your trap. You can angle a stick or straw to prop open a trap door, or drape some felt over the top.

4.  Build a ladder leading to your trap’s entry point using pipe cleaners or craft sticks.

5.  Deposit some pennies,  foil-wrapped coins or lucky charms inside your trap or  on top of the felt as bait.

6.  Set your trap before going to bed on March 16. Remember, a leprechaun will only visit while you’re sleeping.

7.  Check your trap in the morning. Sneaky little leprechauns rarely stay trapped, but if you caught one who escaped, you might find he left behind a treat for you!