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| Our treasure box. You can see we kept it very simple and easy. |
Treasure box (or shoe box, or anything)
Treats, little treasures
Leprechaun footprints (free printable below!)
"Legend of the Leprechauns"
Green food coloring
The night before Saint Patrick's Day, the kids decorated our Treasure box with stickers, and paper, whatever we had around. Then I read the "Legend of the Leprechauns" to them. Here's the Legend: (The original is from Family fun, I made a few changes....http://familyfun.go.com/st-patricks-day/st-patricks-day-crafts/magic-treasure-box-710371/)
LEGEND OF THE LEPRECHAUNS
Full of magic and trickery,
Leprechauns remain in their hidden world until the night before St.
Patrick's Day. On that one night of the year they appear throughout the world
to dance and sing and frolic; and get into mischief!
Disguising themselves as leaves and grass, and sounding like the wind and the crickets, they come and go unnoticed. They love to be sneaky.
However, it is said that if a decorated treasure box is left empty under the moon, the leprechauns must fill the box with gold or jewels or gifts. But then they will hide the filled box in the most unlikely of places.
If the box is found on St. Patrick's Day, the treasure remains in our world. If not, the leprechauns may retrieve what is rightfully theirs. And though the leprechauns are very clever, it is not impossible to find the treasure because, unknowingly, leprechauns often leave some kind of trail behind them.
Disguising themselves as leaves and grass, and sounding like the wind and the crickets, they come and go unnoticed. They love to be sneaky.
However, it is said that if a decorated treasure box is left empty under the moon, the leprechauns must fill the box with gold or jewels or gifts. But then they will hide the filled box in the most unlikely of places.
If the box is found on St. Patrick's Day, the treasure remains in our world. If not, the leprechauns may retrieve what is rightfully theirs. And though the leprechauns are very clever, it is not impossible to find the treasure because, unknowingly, leprechauns often leave some kind of trail behind them.
In the morning, the girls woke up to
Leprechaun footprints all over the house. They had come in and flipped
over some couch cushions, jumped up on the kitchen chandelier, hijacked
the kids little chalkboard and drew a rainbow and pot o' gold, they even
used the bathroom. There were two little footprints on the toilet and
the water was green. The footprints led to the fridge where they had
turned our milk green. And of course some of the footprints led to the
hidden treasure box which had some candy necklaces and gold wrapped
candy (Rolo's are perfect!) The girls thought this was so fun! So did I
:)
For the footprints, I just traced a little
doll shoe and cut out about 75 of them. (Yay for the good scissors I got
as a neighbor gift for Christmas! I could cut about 5 sheets at a
time:) In the case that you do not have little doll shoes for tracing,
or you'd just rather not trace a doll shoe 15 times, I put together this
little printable of the Leprechaun footprints!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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