8 Leprechaun Tricks to Try
The Elf on the Shelf is a huge phenomenon around Christmas; why not take this tradition and replace it with a mischievous leprechaun? Here are a few tricks to try:
Also here are a few parades and festivals to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
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Green Milk
Kids will come to the breakfast table and discover the milk has turned green! Take a glass and put either green food coloring or a few drops of yellow and blue, and fill the glass with milk. Top it off with a green straw.
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Green Shoelaces
Take your child’s favorite pair of shoes and replace the laces with bright, green string or ribbon. They will soon discover this switch when they go to put on shoes for the day.
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Gold and Green Cookies
Buy a package of mint-flavored Oreos and “spray paint” them with edible gold paint found in the baking section of the supermarket. Put these in a plastic bag for your kid’s lunch, they will love having gold and green leprechaun Oreos for dessert.
Green Water
Take green food coloring and put a few drops in the toilet or in the bath tub. For extra fun, cut out green, foam shamrocks and place in the bath or take green washable paint and make “leprechaun footprints” on the sink or toilet.
Rainbow Windows
Take different colors of window paint found at your local craft store and paint a rainbow on one of the house or car windows. As a fun surprise take gold chocolate coins found at a local party store and place them inside a black container to resemble a pot at the end of the rainbow. Hide this by the window or inside the car for your kids to find.
House Turned Green
This little leprechaun made quite the mess at your house! Take green silly string and spray it in different areas of the house, tape green streamers to your child’s door to create a barricade and write messages with washable green paint on the bathroom mirrors.
Leprechaun Binoculars
Have your kids create these to better find the sneaky leprechaun when searching around the house or backyard. Take two empty toilet paper rolls and tape or glue them together. Use rainbow colors of washi tape, strips of fabric or paper and attach these to the outside of the toilet paper rolls. Hole punch the sides and thread a ribbon for a handle.
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Leprechaun Traps
Kids can create a whimsical leprechaun trap to catch the guest wreaking havoc through the house. Paint a shoebox green and prop open with a stick. Then place plastic or chocolate gold coins inside the trap. Draw a rainbow on a piece of paper and glue to the outside. Other ideas include: traps made of cookie cans, jars or Legos and filled with Lucky Charms or paper shamrocks.
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–Teresa Whiting
