What is Leprechaun Season?

Many of you already know that is it great fun to “Catch a leprechaun” the night before St. Patrick’s Day by setting up a leprechaun trap and luring them into your trap with some shiny objects, fake gold, or even leaving some lucky charms around.

This fun does not have to be once a year! Our family has enhanced this lore to be an all month long opportunity of catching leprechauns. I never felt right about putting a lot of effort into building a trap to use for one night. My kids’ imaginations would be going for days before and after St. Patrick’s Day on ways they could improve their trap to catch a leprechaun. Me being a fisherman, correlated fishing season with catching leprechauns, and leprechaun season was born.

Now we catch leprechauns throughout all of March.

Did you know leprechauns start to migrate at the beginning of March and get to their destinations by the end of March? Their activity peaks at St. Patrick’s Day but you have the opportunity to catch leprechauns all month long.

If you are going to try to catch a leprechaun you need to watch out! They are cleaver little fairies (they are in the fairy family, did you know?) and are mischievous and cunning. They aren’t easy to trap and they like to have some fun when they go into your house.

We like to supply you with all types of creative activities and items that you can use to catch a leprechaun, and THINGS THAT A LEPRECHAUN MAY LEAVE BEHIND. Leprechauns are magical creatures but they also use real world tools just like the rest of us. While they are getting through your traps they may use some of the tools they have on them to escape the trap and sometimes they even drop, or leave behind, some of these items for your kids to find.

There isn’t much more fun you can have than watching your children use their creative imagination to try and figure out how the leprechaun escaped their trap, how they made a mess of the house (yes sorry, sometimes they do this), and how they are going to improve their trap for the next night or week to get that naughty leprechaun. Not every morning, but many mornings throughout the month of March our kids are trying to piece together a leprechaun crime scene.

We hope this magic rubs off on your family and your get to enjoy the fun too.