I’m sure you have seen all the fun balloon rockets all over Pinterest. Science Bob has a great tutorial on how and why these little rockets work so well. Since St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, we decided to race leprechauns instead of rockets. We used nylon kite string, wide straws (the kind that are wrapped in paper from restaurants), green electrical tape and some leprechaun coloring sheets printed off the internet.
The leprechauns were taped to the straw then the straw was taped to the balloon. The kids were so excited to try out their flying leprechauns. They giggled that the leprechaun would go faster if they had a rainbow and a pot of gold to race to. Sounds good to me.
I love the racing leprechauns. They looked so funny floating through the air.
The regular round balloons worked great. However the kids wanted to try some special balloons that their grandma sent in a package. These balloons are hilarious. It took a bit of patience to blow them up, but it was worth the wait. The longer shape made the balloons fly faster more like a rocket.
Now that is one fast leprechaun!
Have fun racing your Leprechauns!
Too much fun!!!!!!
Not being Irish, St. Patrick’s Day was never important to me until my daughter was born on March 17. This year since it falls on a Saturday she is excited to have her party on the actual day with a St. Patrick’s Day/Rainbow theme. I am so glad I stumbled upon your site as I now have a Credit Card rainbow Art project and a Leprechaun Races game for the big day!
Thanks for sharing your creative ideas!
We are not Irish either, but my kids LOVE all holidays. Hope your sweet girl has a wonderful birthday!
That looks so fun! We can’t wait to try for ourselves.
SO MUCH FUN!!! This is great…would love to invite you to share this with us at Sharing Saturday here…
http://www.mamamiasheart2heart.com/2012/03/sharing-saturday-9.html
Thanks so much and have a great weekend,
~MiaB
I’m totally doing this! And not in the “when I have kids” sense.
How wickedly wonderful is this activity! My kiddos would love it!
We did this with our Sunday School class on Sunday. Only we taped our Bible verse on the balloon. You used better tape than us though. Each time we flew them we had to re-tape. We all loved it !!!
I love the idea of using a bible verse! We used packing tape and it held great.
Hi,
I love this!! we are Irish and as such,actually didn’t mark Paddys day much, but we are going on a Leprechaun Hunt next week ~(weather abiding!) so was looking for Leprechaun activities, this is perfect, thanks.