A few years ago we started making Leprechaun traps as a St. Patrick’s Day tradition. Matt and the kids create them a week or so before the big day, running a few trials ahead of time in case some Leprechauns are casing our house early.
On the night of March 16, they bait the traps with coins, marshmallows, rhinestones and anything else that might appeal to the mischievous creatures. On the morning of St. Patty’s Day, the children head straight for the traps to see if they’ve caught anyone or anything.
Although we haven’t snagged a little guy yet, the kids have been fortunate to find treats of chocolate or tiny sparkling treasures in their traps. Unfortunately, last year’s visitor left a mess for us to clean up: a trail of leprechaun dust from the back door to various rooms all over the house, including a trip up the carpeted stairs. Faith and begorrah! Forget the Lucky Charms; we need a Hoover for this holiday!
Matt created the trap in these photos, which is tripped with any bumping or jostling of the surface it’s resting upon. I don’t know about the real things, but this LEGO Leprechaun isn’t going very far!
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Love your blog!! This is such a cute idea 🙂
Thanks, Renee! Matt and the kids just finished this year’s models, and we hope to post them soon.
Love This idea! I will have to share it with my 1st grader!
Thanks for the feedback, Jodi, and have fun!
Can you please email us directions on how to build this?
Any chance you can share with me how the trapping mechanism works? I am a mom with my husband on deployment and my Kindergartner would like to build this.
2013 update: thank you for your interest, Marci and Jess! Matt and the kids will put together a video or still photo “how to” post for tomorrow. Also, if you want to try working on this before then, note that the most significant pieces of this design (most notably the red lever arm) came from LEGO® City Fire Station.
Hi Marci and Jess, we just posted instructions here: http://www.tipsntidbits.com/2013/03/happy-st-pattys-day/. Good luck (!) and let us know how it goes.
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