Mrs. P has brought wonder and imagination into the classroom as usual this week by having a leprechaun make overnight visits to Gigi's class. This inspired Gigi to want to make a leprechaun trap and catch a leprechaun for St. Patty's Day. I had no idea where to even start, so I reached out to my friends on Facebook and got all kinds of ideas and then there's Google. Ultimately, Gigi made up her own way for the trap and I took her lead.
Mrs. P said that leprechauns like "plain" popcorn. Gigi wanted to make green popcorn. Our first try failed. We added green food coloring into the olive oil and then popped the corn. No go. The second time, we took the corn and added green melted butter. We don't usually eat our popcorn with butter, but this seemed to do the trick and Gigi is sure that the leprechaun "will love it".
We added the corn to gold mini cupcake tins and made a trail to the trap with a big green bowl of popcorn in a "rainbow box". The box is held up by a green stick. Once the leprechaun is so busy eating the popcorn, he will surely run into the stick and be caught!
While we were in the garden in the afternoon, Gigi found many dandelions and thought that she needed a trail coming in from behind the trap just in case the leprechaun missed the green popcorn.
As we were making the trap this morning, Gigi said that she is going to wish that Eliza comes back. And she is sure that the leprechaun will say "Granted!" Gigi has had Eliza on her mind....She is on my mind every day and I surely would wish the same if only I knew that the wish could come true. This week, during time with her friends in nature, she brought up Eliza....she was with two friends who have no siblings. Gigi said that she doesn't know where Eliza is, but she is real. Her friends didn't know about Eliza. Gigi, I wish for her to be here, too. I am so sorry you can't have her here with you.
