Fairy Houses

What Zoey's into here lately is the magical world of fairies. For Christmas we got her the book Fairy Houses by Tracy Kane, the DVD based on the creating of the book (really neat to see the connection made here between the book and the DVD), Kristen's Fairy Houses and a little kit that we found at our local independantly owned toy store by Creativity for Kids to create your own Fairy House. Included in the kit is everything that one would need for the creating of a Fairy House (a pot, potting soil, grass and bean seeds, little stones, rocks, shells, a little house and even some paint for decorating your pot!). I can't even tell you how fun it was for Zoey (and I) to arrange her little home for the fairies to hopefully come and visit, and planting the seeds and watching them grow (they were fast sprouting seeds) was even cooler. Really a neat process to get to go through with her.

The book is just a beauty of a story for kids and adults alike. It leaves you with an appreciation for the outdoors and the earth as well as leaving room for the possibility that there may indeed be fairies that exist today...their spirits may live in the very things that surround us daily outdoors and in nature. This is the neat part in my opinion. It allows for fantasy to take on a place in reality and it's something that can help to teach respect and care for the outdoors and allow a little girl to be a little girl and feel good about it. Seems like there is so much expectation for little ones to grow up so fast these days, it's nice to have some little things to remind her that it's alright to believe that life may be just a bit magical after all.

This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago already, the greenery is now bowing way over the pot and I think we may have to transplant the entire Fairy House sometime soon into a bigger pot. We are already researching on how it is that we can make our own Fairy House this Spring and Summer in the woods out back...if you do a google search there are a ton of ideas for making Fairy Houses. I love Tracy Kane's site especially, you can view ideas of how to create your ownr own and what supplies you would need here if you like.

And just a fun share...I was reading my March issue of Creating Keepsakes the other day and found my name listed in the magazine under their more standout readers section! Yay!