Leprechaun day is one of my favorite days with the daycare. We talk about our plan to catch a leprechaun as soon as March rolls around. On Tuesday we started making our traps, ensuring that they were sparkly enough to attract a leprechaun. On Friday we walked up to the park to collect shamrocks from the grass to entice the leprechauns to walk into our traps. Unfortunately there were no shamrocks.... but Amelia insisted that the multitude of three petaled weeds were in fact shamrocks. During story time just before nap we all went outside to set our traps, and then we waited......
No St.Patricks day celebration would be complete without shamrock shaped cookies.
Amelia did a great job showing the boys how to spread green icing on the cookies!
By the time Nathan had dipped his knife into the icing and brought it back to the cookie there wasn't much left on his knife to spread.
At the end of nap time we went outside to check our traps, and watching the look on their faces was absolutely priceless! We went outside together and placed both hands on our traps and closed our eyes and said with all our hearts "I SET YOU FREE"....
And sure enough.... there was gold! (As I am sure you all know that when you catch a leprechaun and you set him free, he leaves you his gold.)
I for one was not surprised about actually catching the leprechaun... after all, we were at the end of the rainbow!
A rainbow!!!!!
ReplyDeletereally? How awesome!!!
You make me smile