In our house, items "magically" appear in our daughter's dress up bin from time to time and an "m&m fairy" occasionally deposits mini m&ms in a small mailbox from the dollar section at Target. What do you do at your house to make things magical?
Here are some great examples from our archives:
Top row:
• Add a Fairy Door
• A Birthday Calendar where families leave messages each day in the little pockets.
• The Official Tooth Fairy Kit
• A Princess and the Pea Playroom
• An Indoor Slide and we had a great roundup of indoor slides this month.
Bottom row:
• Rainbow Pancakes
• Ice Cream Cone Balloons
• Whether you make them or buy them, birthday crowns are a great tradition.
• Add this miniature garden to your outdoor endeavors this year.
• Make an Under the Table Fabric Playhouse.
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It really is the little things that fill children with wonder. A little leprechaun left muddy footprints in our house on St. Patrick's day and the children are still talking about it (and they are 9 and 6!)
@girlfrog that is the cutest thing! How awesome!
These are all great. I keep meaning to make a fairy door--thanks for the reminder. We did a very mediocre fairy garden last year, but I'm really excited to make one this year. And the princess and the pea playroom is lovely.
I still remember my teen-age sister waking me up one night to eat popsicles on the porch in the dark. Being up after dark, being outside in my pjs, eating popsicles without my mom's permission...wow. It was mind-blowing.
When we converted our attic to a playroom, I had my brother install little fairy houses in the walls. They started out as electrical junction boxes, so they were already the perfect shape to install in a wall. I decorated them (far less glittery than the flash photo leads you to believe). They're one of my favorite parts of our house.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23927797@N02/3770116177/
that fairy door makes me melt!
A local playcafe I frequent has one, too, in one of its playrooms:
http://howaboutcookie.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/nibbles-play-cafe-review/
I'd have "installed" a few by now in our home if we weren't renters!
The link to the Under the Table Fabric Playhouse is actually taking me to the miniature garden instead -- can you fix? Would love to see more about it!
Pinky41, you cabn find the article about the fabric playhouse here:
http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/inspiration/underthetable-playhousereader-project-139979
ksg--I'd love to see your fairy houses, but it says the flickr account is private. Do you have photos of them posted anywhere else?