Finished Leprechaun Traps!

My students looked forward to building Leprechaun traps all week long. I drew out the process a bit by having them experiment with specific materials, and draw out their plans, but when the time came to actually build the traps, I was still surprised by their intense focus!

I really should have left more time for this activity, they definitely would have used it.  Most of them really did use their drawn plans, referring to them often as they put together different pieces of their traps.  I ended up sacrificing the paper leprechauns from our Juggling Leprechauns counting set, to be used as “decoy Leprechauns” but they put the rest of their traps together independently.

This trap is hidden beneath our steps, and has a decoy friendly Leprechaun and fake gold to lure the “real” Leprechaun in.