Yesterday the girls celebrated St Patrick's Day at school. They had an assignment to make a Leprechaun Trap. They came up with the ideas on their own for the most part. Emma took a puzzle box we had that has a slide top. She decorated the inside of one compartment with a rainbow and pot of gold to entice the leprechaun and the other side had a sparkly shamrock. She put a block under the box top and set it up. The idea was for the leprechaun to want the gold and as he passed the block to get it he would knock it over and the lid would shut down and trap him.
Olivia's was a Kleenex box. We stapled cardboard to the inside and attached a paperclip across the opening. Then she decorated it with a sign pointing to the inside reading "GOLD". Her idea was he would go in there searching for the gold but once he got in, he couldn't push his way out...it only opens one way! Pretty clever.
The end result was after first recess their room was decorated with sparkles. After gym and music class there were little dots all over the room. And after last recess they came back to find leaves all over the room. Unfortunately nobody caught the leprechaun. But the kids did wake up to some gold coin chocolates this morning...so maybe it's a good thing that little leprechaun was too smart for those traps :-)
Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
2 comments:
Awesome! What a special day for the twins.
I loved the traps the kids have been making all these years. So creative. Now Emma and Olivia has joined the rest with wonderfully creative traps of their own.
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