Tricky Lephrechauns

Tanner was in charge of Family Home Evening on Monday, and therefore got to pick the activity. 10 times out of 10, Tanner's activities will involve building something. So to get in the holiday spirit, we built Leperachaun traps.

Tanner's trap is on the left, he very ingeniusly made stairs out of toothpicks and "spider webs" (hot glue strings) hoping to catch the lephrechaun in the sticky webs before he reached the top.

Ashlyn's trap is on the right and has a small ladder that leads to a pile of gold at the top, which is actually cleverly hiding a trap door.

Well, when the kids woke up for school today, Ashlyn found her gold missing and a door cut out of the back of her trap. A note that was left said, "Ha, Ha, Good thing, I brought me lucky saw!"

And that darn tricky lephrechaun laid down a paper trail so that he wouldn't stick to the sticky webs on Tanner's trap. You can see his footprints going up and then you can see where he stomped around and had a fit at the top. Apparently, he wasn't too amused that Tanner forgot to leave out some gold.

The kids were so outraged that the lephrechauns had tricked them and stolen their gold, that they spent all morning trying to come up with a better trap system for next year. Ashlyn's ideas all involved smashed up glass until I told her that we couldn't hurt or kill a lephrechaun. So after thinking a little further, I have heard that next years trap will involve a piece of granite (so that the lephrechaun can't saw through it) and paper money, so that no real money will actually get stolen next time!