Objective:  To design a rainbow or to create a leprechaun trap.

Directions:  For the March Family Project, you may choose either to design a rainbow or to create a leprechaun trap.  

• Rainbow:  You will be provided with a blank rainbow template for this project.  Be as creative or imaginative for each arc of color as you'd like.  You can use many different items for the arc colors such as yarn, cloth, magazine pictures, beads, markers, etc.  

• Leprechaun Trap:  The leprechaun trap should not be much larger than a shoebox and needs to have a least 1 moving part to trap the leprechaun.  Keep in mind how you will attract the leprechaun to your trap as well as how you will entice him to go in your trap!  Be clever, smart, and tricky!  Build the trap using nails, glue, or string to make your trap "leprechaun tight!"  Don't make it too big--remember you are catching a tiny leprechaun, not a giant!  Be ready to explain how your trap works.  You will use your trap to demonstrate.  **Hint:  Leprechauns are tricky fellows!  They like shiny things, things that glitter.  They are often naughty and disobey signs. 

Due Date:  Rainbows or leprechaun traps should be completed by Monday, March 8, and returned to school to share on or before that day.  Children will present the project they chose to complete to the class and talk to the class about how their family worked together to create it.  If you chose the leprechaun trap, you will get to demonstrate to the class how your trap works.  All rainbows will be put on display, and leprechaun traps will be set-up in the classroom in hopes of catching one!