Fairy Houses

Let me preface this post by saying I am not crafty. Far from it. I can't sew or decoupage, I don't scrapbook and I don't have any desire to start up any of those things. I do however like to buy crafts, own a glue gun and keep a whole closet full of supplies - which is good because every so often my very crafty six year old simply must create.

Last Saturday, Chris took the girls sandal shopping and came home with these cute little pink shoe boxes. "These would make great Fairy Houses!" Chris said, the idea was born and Athena was obsessed. Instead of going to the new neighborhood splash park after church on Sunday, Athena only wanted to make this idea a reality. Zoe went along for the ride, 'cause she's easy like that.

I dipped into my craft closet and found glitter pens and paint, colored popsicle sticks, fabric flowers, gems and beads. I heated up my glue gun, and when the Dude went down for a nap, the girls and I spent the better part of the afternoon creating our imaginary world of fairies.

Athena glued sticks onto the windows so she could lure and trap her fairy inside.

Furniture from princess toys we no longer play with were used to furnish the inside. Athena created a bed of sticks with a leaf blanket and cotton ball pillow. She included some refreshments she thought her fairy might want and inside the little wardrobe is a dress for her to wear. A rose petal throw rug was glued inside the front door for the fairy to wipe her feet on.

A tiny little bell was hung from a wire inside the door so that Athena would be alerted when a fairy entered.
And the little houses were placed on the play structure because "fairies fly" and they thought the houses should be high up. They stayed there untouched for the most of the afternoon. Athena checked several times to see if there were any new occupants.

When the Dude discovered the houses the delicate little roof structures were tossed aside and the contents disturbed...all very upsetting, of course. He was easily distracted with snacks while the girls put their houses back together, however, they started fighting with each other and the houses were necessarily taken away.

They got them back the following day but they were already forgotten. Right now they're collecting dust on a bookshelf, but for one afternoon they were really darling.