Tuesday, May 20, 2014

A New Fairy Woods

One of our former parents is a teacher at a neighbouring school.  Her class created fairy doors to put in the forest beside their school.  Today we went in search of the doors.
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It was a beautiful day to run through the forest checking behind
                       all the trees and stomps.
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This woods has lots of trails to wander and big stumps to climb on, a natural playground.  The children searched and searched and some reported they found 9 doors while others found 11.

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After counting we gathered in an opening beside a big stump so I could
                     introduce our project for the day. 
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       Each child could make their own fairy garden to take home. 
Provided were a small bowls of soil, sliced pieces of cork, bottle caps, jewels
                                        and moss.
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   The children also collected sticks, stones, and pine cones off the ground.
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                  Then they began to put their gardens together.
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                       Getting more items as they created.
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      Each garden is unique according to what attracted the child.
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Because we used live moss they gave their a spray of water when they
                                   were finished.

But we weren’t finished yet.
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                  I introduced Fairy Wishes to the children. 
If you blow just a few Wishes over your gardens then maybe fairies will move in.
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I demonstrated blowing the wishes and as the dandelion fluff separated and
they spiraled done to the ground they kind of look like little fairies.
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         A good blow and lots of wishes all over his garden.

Fairies didn’t arrive but I did have a little gnome for each garden.
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                    A wee little home for the gnome.
Hopefully the fairies and the gnomes will be comfortable in their new gardens.