Leprechaun trap STEAM challenge for Year 2 to Year 5 (KS1-KS2, Grades 1-4): a 14-page booklet of design, coding and puzzle tasks that gets pupils planning, building and testing a trap for a tiny, tricky leprechaun. A lively March activity for science, design and technology and maths.

Children learn what STEAM means, choose three tools for their trap, design it with an entrance, bait and trigger, and explain how it works. A coding challenge asks them to guide the leprechaun with an arrow code on a grid, and a code breaker and maze give extra puzzle practice. An emotions chart adds a little literacy and speaking.

What is included (14 pages)

• Cover page and What is STEAM? tool chart
• Meet the Leprechaun reading and writing page
• STEAM Challenge 1: design your trap and explain how it works
• Coding Challenge: write an arrow code on a grid
• Leprechaun Emotions Chart
• Leprechaun Code Breaker with a secret message
• Catch the Leprechaun maze

Ways to use

• St Patrick’s Day week and March STEAM days
• Design and technology and computing links: algorithms and sequences
• Early finishers, enrichment and wet play
• Team challenge with junk modelling to build the trap

Print on A4 or US Letter at actual size (choose “Fit to page” for A4). PDF, US Letter. English.