Children love a lively leprechaun story in spring, especially St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s one that weaves through with a greatly adapted spark of ‘Hans in Luck’ (Grimms). It is a humorous tale and lots of fun as a circle puppet story, where the children take part as characters of the story with simple table puppets. This inspires all kinds of leprechaun play and lovely tricks. We build leprechaun traps in the sandbox each year with a deep hole covered with sticks. We put honey in a shell and…