How To Trap A Leprechaun: Rooftop Garden Leprechaun Trap

Want to know how to trap a leprechaun? This rooftop garden leprechaun trap will make it easy and if it works, you may just be able to catch that sneaky leprechaun once and for all!

It’s that time of year when leprechauns are abound. If we can manage to trap a leprechaun, we may just end up with a pot of gold! Even though I’m still cleaning up the glitter from last year’s leprechaun trap, I decided that we should go for it and make another one. After all, it’s so much fun!

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We went to Dollar Tree and since I didn’t have anything in particular in mind, I did what I usually do and wandered the store for inspiration. When I saw these cute flowers, I had to have them!

I had no idea what I was going to make with them but I knew they’d be perfect for something. Once I got home, I started thinking about it and somehow the idea of a rooftop garden came to mind. The best part is easy this leprechaun trap is to make.

What you’ll need…

Supplies:

• A box (I used a cracker box but a large cereal box would work too)
• 2 sheets of green construction paper (3 if you want to cover the bottom of the box)
• 1 sheet of yellow construction paper
• Flowers (I found mine at Dollar Tree)
• Gold coins
• 2 empty fruit cup containers
• 3-5 Rainbow colored straws (I wanted to use 5 different colors but you really only need 3)
• String
• Toothpick (broken in half)

Tools

• Glue gun and glue sticks (Surebonder sent me this cordless glue gun and it’s my new favorite…no annoying cord to deal with!)
• White kids glue or glue stick (for younger kids)
• Scissors

How To Trap A Leprechaun With A Rooftop Garden Leprechaun Trap

Luckily I still had the boxes I’d been hoarding for my Valentine’s Day boxes (welcome to the life of a blogger/box hoarder!). I grabbed the one that looked like it would work best, along with green and yellow construction paper.

I used two sheets of construction paper to wrap the box. One piece of 9×12 paper covers two sides of a cracker box.

The excess paper can either be cut off or folded over. I chose to fold it over and glue it to the box.

Add a second sheet of construction paper and glue it to the other side of the box.

Cut the construction paper at the corners.

Fold the paper down and glue it to the top of the box. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look perfect because it’ll be covered by flowers.

Take a third piece of construction paper and cut a square to cover the bottom (optional).

Using a ruler, measure 1 1/2 inch squares on yellow construction paper to make the high rise windows. If you’re using a different sized box, just make the windows whatever size works best.

Glue the windows to the box. If the kids are younger, they can use white glue or a glue stick instead of hot glue. You can make a door with leftover paper. I just happened to have some sparkly foam scraps so I used one for the door. You can pretty much use whatever you think will look good.

Next I took two fruit cups and attached them on one side with just a pinch of hot glue. I wiggled the cups back and forth until they moved freely. The top cup needs to be able to close on top of the bottom one to trap the leprechaun inside.

Glue the “trap” to the top of the building.

Pull the flowers and gold coins off the stems, then glue them around the trap with hot glue.

Cut the straws, then glue each one to a piece of string to make a rope ladder. Your leprechaun will need this ladder to scale the building and get to the gold.

Glue the rope ladder to the top of the box.

You can make your own sign or use this template to print mine. There are a couple options to choose from.

Take a leftover piece of straw and attach the sign to your building.

Finally, fill the cup with gold, then prop it open with a broken toothpick.

Now that we’ve made our leprechaun trap, maybe we’ll catch one on St. Patrick’s Day!

We can’t wait to see if our plan to trap a leprechaun really works! What do you think?

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