St. Patrick’s day at our house is something my children look forward to almost as much as Christmas, okay not that much but the excitement level does run high.
On the eve of St. Patrick’s day, I share with my children a little about leprechauns and their shenanigans. I tell them a story about how wealthy the little mystical men and women are and how they love to play tricks and pranks on people, especially the night before St. Patrick’s day. The legend I spin tells them that if you catch a leprechaun the mini-people are required to give you their pot of gold. The leprechauns love the challenge so they sneak into homes while everyone is asleep and try to play as many tricks as they can on humans without getting caught.
After weaving my tale, the children and I try to construct traps for the magical beings. It is normally a crude version of the box-stick-trap that you would see in old cartoons. We place coins made from aluminum foil under a box held up by a stick, since everyone knows the miserly people cannot pass up the opportunity to own something shiny. The hope is that the leprechaun will try to get the “coins”, knock the stick and box down and be trapped.
So after my children go to bed, the leprechauns strike. They turn our milk green (food coloring), our toilet water green (food coloring), they put things where they don’t belong (socks in the cupboard, stuffed animals in refrigerator). One year my kids left out a cupcake to entice the little ones and they walked right through it leaving icing footprints across our counters. They also tried to catch them with playdoh, hoping their small feet would not be able get out of the thick dough, but they escaped again leaving only footprints behind. (The footprints can be done with your pinky finger or I used Barbie shoes.) The little imps that visit our home, named Moira and Seamus, always leave a note in miniscule writing before they head off, wishing the kid’s “better luck next year” and of course, a “Happy St. Patrick’s Day.”
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