We almost caught a Leprechaun!!!

This year for St. Patrick's Day, we tried to catch a Leprechaun. Annie made a "trap" at Grandma Deb's house. It's a Leprechaun hat with a hole in the top. Of course there is a piece of green felt laid gently across the top to trick the Leprechaun. There was also fake gold to lure him up there. They built a small stick ladder and posted a sign that said, "Don't climb the ladder!" He didn't listen because he wanted the (fake) gold so bad. Needless to say, his shoe got stuck on the top of the trap and he was in such a hurry he knocked over chairs in the house. Grandma also set out a cookie sheet coated in flour in hopes he would walk across it so we could see his footprints. It worked!! You'll also notice the Lucky Charm cereal we used to coax him to the kitchen table where the trap was. He left a note saying he needed his shoe back, so if we left it out, he would trade it for a bucket of gold!! The last picture shows the bucket of gold he left us. But, he tricked us too. He filled the bucket with chocolate gold coins, and only layered the top with gold dollars. I think it was 5 dollars worth so Annie was pretty excited.