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Story telling with Fairies

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We are all a little fairy mad here; stories, movies, toys, gardens, pinatas and parties.

Daisy enjoys playing with her fairies and I noticed her telling stories and acting them out. I asked if she would like to make a book to tell one of her stories. The response was one of excitement.

We sat down and discussed the story she would like to tell. I mapped it using a graphic organizer so we had a set story to follow.

Yes, this does seem very organized for a simple story but I wanted to be able to read the story again and again and not cringe. Daisy tends to tell a story one way and then forget what happened and change it for the next retelling. This is a wonderful way to improve and develop story telling skills but in this case we wanted a strong story with a problem to work with.

I helped her identify the characters, setting, problems, event and solution. I used a great Flip Chart which comes with a teacher’s photocopiable book. I have used it when tutoring a grade 7 student and have found it very useful for learning how to structure and plan writing.

We used our plan to tell the story. I wrote the story and photographed…

… while Daisy acted it out with her fairies and various other toys and props we found.

Here the fairies are chilling by the pool. The story was simple but it had a problem to be solved.

This allowed us to finish with a satisfying ending. This picture in particular made Daisy very proud.

The fairies were trapped in the building. Big people had left a bowl of beans out for the fairies but didn’t realize they were trapping the fairies behind the gates. The hummingbird took a message to the fairies chilling by the pool who came back and rescued the trapped fairies. They did this by sprinkling fairy dust on the bowl of beans. Daisy loved the realistic flying bowl of beans (I cropped her hand out of the picture).

The story (Daisy’s story, in her words), photos and a little photo shoot in a fairy costume were made into a beautiful book.

Daisy was very proud to receive her own book ‘Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Dust Rescue” for her birthday. It has been well read and shared already.

Fairy Garden

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We made gorgeous fairy gardens a couple of weekends ago. They were party take home gifts but we also made one for Granny for Easter. These would make great Mother’s Day gifts too. I had spent the previous few weeks collecting wee milk cartons.

I figured they could cope with the moisture from watering better than regular card.

We set up a house building area with, flowers, craft sticks, bugs, an Uber Cutter and a glue gun.

Our super party helper Ang, was ready to help the kids glue their chosen items onto their house. They did have the option to use the glue gun as it is low temperature but most chose to have glue applied for them. They also spent time snapping craft sticks in half with the Uber Cutter. When they were happy with their fairy house they moved on out to the garage (the weather was miserable), to put the rest of their garden together.

Daisy went for the minimalist look!

Areas were set up in the garage:

  • Add gravel (for drainage)
  • Add soil
  • Add plants (two Pansy’s and a sunflower)
  • Decorate with rocks and glass pebbles
  • Add a butterfly and a few ladybirds

The children moved around the garage helping themselves and gradually building their gardens.

Discussions as to where the plants and decorations should be placed were had.

I forgot to say the planters were labeled before they went to be filled. It made life easy when it became time to go home.

The birthday cupcakes had a plastic fairy cupcake topper. The guests licked them clean and many included them in their garden.

They seemed to be very pleased with their fairy gardens.

Fairy Pinata

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Daisy requested a fairy pinata for her birthday but the deal was that she had to help make it.

I did not grow up with pinatas so how to make them was a bit of a guessing game.. all part of the fun!

We started with a balloon and used a mixture of glue and water to make a paste. Newspaper and glue mix formed the first layer of the pinata.

When that was dry we added toilet paper arms and legs and pipe cleaner wings with masking tape.Masking tape is easier to glue over than scotch tape.

We got to work again pasting newspaper and then tissue paper. The wings had only tissue paper.

I was worried about strength and had visions of it collapsing when the sweets were put inside so I added string. You can see the string when it is hanging up later. It had two long pieces of string wrapped under the fairy.

We used glue rather than a traditional paste with flour because it tends to dry much quicker and I was on a tight timeline due to inadequate planning!

Daisy added features to our fairy. I love her crazy eyes!

I used a knife to cut a small hole in the top. Daisy stuffed wrapped candy(sweets) inside and hot glued the top back on. Wool hair applied with the glue gun, completed our gorgeous fat fairy pinata!

The strings were a little short so my hubby took over as the pinata holder (brave man!).

The kids all took turns, even Rose but by the time we went around the circle twice I was getting bored. My wonderful party helper Ang. gave it a try and even she could not smash it  so I ended up smashing it on the floor, with the bat (lots of fun for me!).

The fairies descended and not a sweet was left!