Monday, March 17, 2008

Leprechaun Trap

My 7-year-old son used a cardboard box from the garage yesterday to construct a trap to catch a leprechaun:



He wanted to get the leprechaun's pot of gold so that we'd be rich. Then he was going to keep him and feed him Lucky Charms cereal, which I guess is what leprechauns eat. I told him we should train him to be our slave.

The trap was placed in our pantry in the kitchen. Inside the trap, he made a Wii out of paper and tape, which he thought would be a good lure for the leprechaun. And on the outside of the trap's door, he wrote "gold!" and "lucky charms party!"

At night, after the kids were in bed, I put the note in there and put a few Reese's peanut butter cups for the gold.