My darling 4 year old grand daughter asked where the fairy house was in our garden so I quickly started creating one. This is progress so far.
I am not entirely sure what a 4 year old girl wants in a fairy house so I have started with the essentials, some windows and a garage with the beginnings of a soldier red Porsche 959 in the garage.
I was going to put a Fairari F40 on the other side (see what I did there with the name?) but am not sure what to put in the other windows.
Suggestions welcome.
Aren't fairy houses normally small wooden doors stuck on a tree?
Aren’t fairy houses normally small wooden doors stuck on a tree?
Tradition of them like that round our way. People stick them up and the pics get changed, kids add little figures and stuff.
Okay then - Fairy Mansions then?
When our girls were into them it was all little doors, leaving food and drink out for them , cameras set to record and us running around in the dark waving little lights to pretend to be fairies.
That's a fairy man cave
[i]That’s a fairy man cave[/i]
I was about to paint a bike on a work stand in the other big window before common sense (MrsWCA) kicked in.
She’ll love it and so will Kevin McCloud.
Yep doors. Then in lockdown 1 the kids for more creative and little houses of sticks and such started appearing in the woods. My two girls wanted to play so a 'chainsaw carved' a couple of little huts, then they hot glued bark doors and windows on.
She explained at great length that she already had a fairy house in her garden but that it was only a door with pretend fairies. She then explained that because I am Grandad and I make things that I should make a 'real' fairy house which would be big enough for the fairies to live in.
A lovely example of understanding the reality that her fairy door was just a pretend one while also maintaining the fantasy that I could build a real house for the fairies.
Plenty of folk on here who are away with the fairies and can provide technical advice....
This does sound like a great chance to get a youngster involved in designing and building stuff. Except grandad probably needs closer supervision around sharp tools than the granddaughter....
^^ 😂
Her mum said she liked jigsaws so we played with the jigsaw. Apparently she meant the kind with pictures but she did not specify that. It did not end well.
