Whiz Kid: Littlest Leprechan Trap Designer

Whiz Kid's Name/Age: Sierra Montrose, 4

Whiz Kid's School:  Smart Start Preschool

Whiz Kid's Accomplishment: Littlest Leprechaun Trap Designer

Whiz Kid's Key to Awesomeness: 

After learning about leprechaun traps at preschool, Sierra came home with a big idea.  She decorated her doll house with green paper and a shamrock necklace. She used a small candy box for a mailbox.

“I think they like to sleep on marshmallows,” she told her mother Felicia, so they created a bed out of battery packaging layered with marshmallows. She also added a “Do Not Enter” sign because “no one else should enter there; it’s only for the leprechaun.”  

Sierra gathered small sticks from her yard to create a ladder that allows the leprechaun to climb into the trap.  “Leprechauns like chocolate," Sierra said. "When he goes in there he gets stuck.”

So far the leprechaun has created mischief by tearing up tissue paper and throwing it all over the house.  Sierra also reports hearing him walking around and she is pretty sure he hides in drawers. 

“He’s only this tall,” she measures out an inch with her thumb and pointer finger.

The leprechaun even “used GPS to find Granny’s house” where he left some gold coins because she is Irish.  Mom says Sierra is “determined” to catch the leprechaun by St. Patrick’s Day.  Sierra hopes he will stay for a sleepover and grant her a wish, but if she blinks she knows he will run away.

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