Leprechaun Trap Cake

The night before St. Patrick's Day, the boys and I built a Leprechaun Trap Cake.

We made a rainbow cake in a bundt pan and covered it in green frosting.

We put pretzel sticks across the middle and gold coins on top.

That way, the leprechaun would try to get the gold coins, and fall through the trap into the hole in the middle of the cake...so we could catch him :)

The boys made a sign letting the leprechaun know that there was a rainbow in the cake:

The next morning, the boys got up early to check their trap.

That sneaky little leprechaun had eaten his way out of the cake:

The boys got up before us to check the trap.  Saxon decided that since the leprechaun had already had some cake, he might as well help himself to cake also.

He used the bamboo skewer to shave a section off of the cake for him and Bridger and Dalton.  We didn't know what was going on until Dalton crawled into our bed that morning covered in green frosting...

Then, while I was in the shower, they decided that the leprechaun trap cake would be a great hideout for Luke Skywalker and Han Solo:

What a mess!  I asked the boys who did it and Saxon told me that it was him.

He said, "You're trap didn't work anyway...you should have done my idea!"

(His idea was to build a crane with a box on it that would be triggered by a sensor when the leprechaun walked under it and would drop the box on top of the leprechaun)

He dreams big!