{"id":2683,"date":"2014-03-17T11:28:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T18:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2014-03-18T00:01:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:01:59","slug":"leprechaun-penny-string-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=2683","title":{"rendered":"Leprechaun Penny & String Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mrs. Snodgrass, my sons third grade teacher, is amazing. She’s a wonderful person, as well as an inspiring teacher. Although my son is now in 4th grade, I still volunteer in her classroom every week. I am devastated that she retires this year and Laurel will never have the chance to experience Mrs. Snodgrass’ classroom. \u00c2\u00a0I could go on for paragraphs about her, but ATM I am posting from my phone and will refrain as typing is a pain \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

This is a St. Patricks day activity she does with her 3rd graders.<\/p>\n

You’ll need:<\/p>\n

A leprechaun template, ours is about 8-9″ tall and 4-5″ wide<\/p>\n

Thin cardboard<\/p>\n

Hole Punch<\/p>\n

Glue stick<\/p>\n

Scissors<\/p>\n

Long piece of yarn, ours is about 4-5′ long<\/p>\n

3″ piece masking tape<\/p>\n

A penny<\/p>\n

Crayons, Markers or colored pencils to decorate your leprechaun<\/p>\n

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Have your child color the leprechaun as desired. Glue to a thin piece if cardboard or stuff paper such as a file folder or heavy card stock. Cut away excess cardboard. (You could print the leprechaun directly onto the heavy cardstock if desired).<\/p>\n

Punch a hole on each side of the leprechaun, about midway, making sure the holes are directly across from each other. Punch a third hole at the bottom of the leprechaun, in the center.<\/p>\n

Now fold your string in half; one side is the “looped” end, the other is the “strings” end.<\/p>\n

Push the looped end through one side hole from the decorated side to the back side.<\/p>\n

Pass it across the back of the leprechaun and push it up through the other side hole.<\/p>\n

Thread the strings side through the looped end.<\/p>\n

Pass the strings end through the bottom hole.<\/p>\n

Tape the penny to the strings end, securing both ends to the penny so the string is now basically a complete loop with the penny attached.<\/p>\n

The challenge to your child — can you find the leprechauns trick and remove the string from the leprechaun, keeping both string and leprechaun intact? No scissors, tearing, or removing the penny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mrs. Snodgrass, my sons third grade teacher, is amazing. She’s a wonderful person, as well as an inspiring teacher. Although my son is now in 4th grade, I still volunteer in her classroom every week. I am devastated that she retires this year and Laurel will never have the chance to experience Mrs. Snodgrass’ classroom. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2687,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}