Leprechauns Just Can't Be Trapped

Regardless of the years and years of trying to catch leprechauns and failing, we once again put on our thinking caps and came up with fresh ideas to try to catch the little gold diggers.

Unfortunately, this year I forgot to take the before pictures and only got the chaotic aftermath!

Whitlee made an awesome Ferris Wheel... which the leprechauns dismantled and spelled out "Nice Try"!

They weren't impressed with the mouse trap, but found a suitable replacement.

I had made an infinity loop with a rainbow road hoping that they would begin the race and never find the finish line and hoped we would catch them racing into the wee hours of the morning.  Not so!  They cut my loop and escaped!

They busted a hole in Charlotte's classic oatmeal jar trap.

Bronson tried to convert them to the gospel, but they found a loophole in Alma 10:17:

O ye wicked and perverse generation, ye lawyers and hypocrites, for ye are laying the foundations of the devil; for ye are laying traps and snares to catch the holy ones of God.

Bronson also tried to capture them with a cleverly crafted game of Monopoly.  Every square landed you on a chance space and every chance card sent the leprechauns directly to jail.

The leprechauns even set a few traps of their own!

We may not have caught a leprechaun, but it was still a win-win situation with all the wonderful "gold candy" they left us around the house!