St. Patrick's Day Archives

Got ’im! Our 2015 LEGO Leprechaun Trap

Matt and the kids were at it again yesterday, creating their latest version of a St. Patrick’s Day family tradition: a leprechaun trap built entirely of LEGOs. This one comes complete with guards, an Irish flag and a touch of gold from Middle Earth.

Whaddya think?

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Build Your Own LEGO Leprechaun Trap

They’re here!

For those of you who wanted to know how to build the “phone booth” LEGO trap pictured above, originally posted in 2011, we now have instructions to share.

Matt used LEGO® Digital Designer to create step-by-step plans for building this trap, and you’ll need to download that program in order to open [click headline to read more…]

Happy St. Patty’s Day!

Long time, no see! I’ve been offline for a while, but this weekend’s requests from two moms prompted me to share this post. Mind you, the majority of the work for this one fell to Matt. Let me explain…

Two years ago he built an amazing LEGO Leprechaun trap. Although we didn’t catch any [click headline to read more…]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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 [click headline to read more…]