L is for Leprechaun Invasion (Part Deux)

Last year was a little lame. It just so happened that St. Patty's Day was during Spring Break. The leprechauns did not invade.

This year, those pesky leprechauns were back.

With their messy silly string again! (Where do that get that stuff?!)

Not as many kids made leprechaun traps as they did two years ago. But, they were still pretty cute. We set them on Friday before we left.

Pretty clever use of an old cereal box.

Pennies glued down inside.

This silvery wrapped box had a trap door under those "clouds".

This one had a rainbow made out of colored paper that was dipped in water.

The sign had reverse psychology..."Do NOT climb the ladder!"

This girl's description: "When the leprechaun jiggles the box, it will slam down on his head and knock him out. But don't worry...there's a little bed for him to lay on while he waits for me to let him out."

Exclusive Hotel for leprechauns

This is Stella's second version. The regular shoe box one was "too predictable".

The leprechaun was going to fall inside and then trip and trip and trip on the beads. He would then get so tired of tripping that he would just sit down and wait for us to get him.

The leprechauns left a piece of gold in all the traps to make up for the Silly String.
They also had these little leprechaun guys from First Grade Fanatics. 

What a mess!

They also had us go on a scavenger hunt...They must love A Cupcake for the Teacher as much as I do. =)

Can you see the treasure there under my throne?

I loved hearing all of the stories of what the leprechauns did at home. My favorite was from Mr. Genius.

"I woke up on Saturday and the COUCH was in the CAR. The leprechauns put the COUCH in the CAR."

What?!

And gone are the days of an apple for the teacher. Well, I should say a whole apple for the teacher. One little darling left this on my desk today. Mmmm.

And before you go...The Ugly Vegetables center resources are up on TPT. Click the pic to go there.

Countdown to my spring break...8 days!


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L is for Leprechaun Invasion!

That's right! Leprechauns invaded the classroom today. In fact, they invaded quite a few classrooms. The strange thing was that each room's leprechauns did their mischief differently. We decided it's because the troop of leprechauns split up to get the job done faster. Even stranger was that they kept the mischief up all day, even though we didn't see them!

The sad news is that, even though we did our best, but we did not catch a single one. We know they were there though.  I saw a lot of cool traps around the school, but almost all of mine were made with things from around the house. We did learn a lot about reusing last month.

Only one of them said, "Leprechauns aren't real. Ms. Buckler did all this." I think I gave him enough evidence to make him think twice...

Here are some leprechaun traps:

The smallest of them all. Designed to catch the leprechauns with a net.

The classic bait. Loved the rainbow painted cotton balls.

Reverse psycology. Sometimes works...sometimes doesn't.

Very clever. More effective outside? The doorknob is shiny. Leprechauns like shiny things.

Cute! Lucky Charms were glued down to entice the leprechauns.

 This one was great! Very good use of household items. The leprechauns broke the net in the top left.

This one was fancy inside.

Love the use of beads she just got at the parade.

I had to be taught how to set this one up. Cute, cute.

This one had a fancy gold cross necklace as bait.

Maybe the 'Lepercauns' were confused. Or put off by the bars on the windows. Or that it is 'Sait' Patrick's Day.

This one requires you to "use your leprechaun hands" to catch them. I was unaware that leprechauns like unicorns until this.

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So get this...the leprechauns sprayed silly string all over the room! Everyone knew that real leprechauns did it because "Why would Ms. Buckler ruin her own room with silly string?!"

And they left us a note!!!!

And some Lucky Charms and gold!

This guy's didn't work so well inside...

So we set it up outside while we went to Music.

No luck...

Told you those leprechauns were good...

We also graphed some leftover Lucky Charms.

They were rather sticky...

We also gave the St. Patty's Day treatment to the restrooms.

Several boys commented, "Eww! They just went in the Ladies' room!" It's Lad-dies dudes...geesh!

Not quite sure why the Leprechaun lassie has a beard. Must be an Irish thing...

The leprechauns messed with the student chairs.

But knew better than to mess with the queenly throne.

We are reading about toads this week and Mr. TV did this:

It says: "My toad's name is Franken Booger."

Him: "WHAT? IT'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY AND BOOGERS ARE GREEN!"

Me: Oh, okay. Then Franken Booger's boogers must be REALLY green.

Him: I THINK YOU MIGHT BE RIGHT!






The teacher may have lost her mind...

But at least she wasn't alone.

Happy Saint Patrick's day!