Thursday, August 13, 2009

Fairy Cottage.

Yesterday as I was cleaning up breakfast, the child asks, "Now what?!" It was 9:30am. My mind quickly scans our usual non-TV activities: painting, coloring, drawing, matching games, candy land, gluing things to other things. These things usually last about 10 minutes (at most) each. *sigh*

I don't know where this thought came from, and oddly, it was coming out of my mouth even before my brain realized it was: "Let's make a fairy house!" And so we did. We went outside and collected twigs, pinecones, the spiny parts of the coneflowers, pieces of bark, and acorns. Inside, we gathered an old birdhouse (that oddly enough, I decorated with fairies a few years back), feathers, pompoms, glitter glue, paint, ribbon and beads. (The perk of being a crafty collector is that you have all this cool stuff laying around!)

I was surprised when the outside collection process lasted about 45 minutes. During this time we were wondering what color fairies like, and what they eat. I could not believe she was so into this!

As she started to paint the house, I burned the tips of my fingers off with the glue gun while applying twigs. She painted little rocks and I (more carefully) glued them on. She used the glitter glue to attach the pom poms and ribbon. This took just about an hour! A record!!!

We wrote a letter to the fairies. Happily, this morning we found a letter from a fairy named Rose. She thanked Abby for the beautiful cottage and asked her if she could move in some of her stuff. Rose also told us her friends' names: Lily, Daisy, Persephone & Violet.

We were suprised to find out that fairies disguise themselves as butterflies during the day! Who knew!? Yesterday we actually touched Rose's yellow & black wing as she was feeding on our butterfly bush. Rose commented that she liked it when we pet her.

Abby was very upset that the Rose & her friends didn't stay around for her to see her. We'll write her another letter tonight and hopefully she'll give us an explanation.

4 comments:

Broomcakes said...

I wish you were my mom. This is an incredible activity. I could use a fairy house at my place :)

Kris said...

YOU seriously ROCK. This is so awesome and I'm wondering if Ben would be into it as well. Are there BOY fairies? LOL
What a wonderful memory you are making for her. I love it. :)

Jaime said...

HLM- Thanks! Perhaps me & Abby could make a fairy house for dog fairies...

Kris- Do it! Of course there are boy fairies. Call them sprites. That sounds more masculine. And of course, you can decorate your house with sticks and rocks and other crafty things. Oh, and if you don't want them to be butterflies by day, you can make them lightening bugs by night!

Kris said...

Omg, I love you.