Shhh… Fairies & Elves Sleep Here!

The woods are full of fairies!
The trees are all alive:
The river overflows with them,
See how they dip and dive!
What funny little fellows!
What dainty little dears!
They dance and leap, and prance and peep,
And utter fairy cheers!

A quote attributed to Albert Einstein, “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales!”

The Fairytale Tent

The teepee tent, replicating a fairytale zone, embellished with colorful balloons and ribbons. As children enter the whistling willows into the magical land of their favorite fairy tales, the animal soft toys joined their world of magical tales of fairies, princes, toads, and elves read to them by their educators. Children created their own stories from the fairytale books and the animals became characters that teleported with them into the faerie land!

Spin – o’ – Wheels

Two spinning wheels – one hung from a tree and another set on the ground – focused on two spatial dimensions. The potter’s wheel on the ground cast colorful and bright shadows using the natural magic of the sun. As a gross-motor movement, kids used ropes or their hands to spin and run around the vibrant wheel, creating dancing lights on the ground. They controlled the speeds at which they spun the wheel to maneuver,

watching the dance of the colors. The wheel hanging from the branch of a tree, a hanging art, was adorned with ribbons, glittering moons & stars, and vibrant fabrics patterns were woven intricately into the wheel. When the kids spun the wheel, it turned, swung, and oscillated like a pendulum reflecting shiny light. Kids crept under the swaying wheel and encountered the tantalizing specs of light. The wide grins and happy smiles illuminated the land of the fairies and elves as the dangling wheel spread sparkles in the sun!

Magical Movements

Re-entering the magical land of elves and fairies, it was time to sway to the rhythm of the fairies. Children danced on their tippy-toes to the enchanting music and moved their body parts to the lyrics. They hummed the tunes, and sung some words, they twirled and swayed to the rhythm of the dance of the faerie realm. The angels spread their magic as they fluttered their angelic wings! Magic was truly in the air!

String it On

Weaving a wonderful web of colorful and vibrant strings around a giant nature harp. Children scurried in zig-zagged patterns between the poles and around them. The harp installation was a fun gross-motor activity. It encouraged children to entwined the threads and ribbons by unwrapping them as they unreeled the ‘firkis’, while learning about pressure and force. Their rhythmic movements in tandem with each other synced with the marvelous music as the children created the strings for the

gigantic magical harp. The produced patterns serving as their songbook, children happily created their magical moments as elves and fairies!

Flutter & Fly

An enchanting butterfly was fluttering to the music of the stringing harp in the middle of the forest. Children decided to paint the butterfly with myriad colors and dreamy magic. As if the butterfly was hovering between the trees, it was a moving canvas.
Children used their fingers, brushes, and fallen leaves to bedazzled the butterfly. The patterns, handprints, fingerprints, and mixed splashes of colors expressed the creativity, mood, and fine motor skills of the folks of the faerie realm!

Mini Hobbitons

Each child constructed a mushroom house of their own, putting their magical figures to assemble an abode for their little fairy and elf friends. The house had a paper cup foundation and children stuck a conical roof to it. After looking for fairies in the cups, they stuck doors and windows to form a structure. To complete their creation in the gardens, children decorated them with some grass blades and flowers. The flight of colors was truly an experience of a day in the life of a fairy, their home, and routine, to create attachment in fantasy!

Blooming Jars

Oh, what a dream! To have your own fairy & elf garden in a jar, a blooming jar! Children were captivated by the enchanting blooming terrariums. Connecting with

the earth, children created the base of slightly wet mud, they scooped, poured, and punched for a strong foundation. Planting a Jane plant, and carefully filling it up with colorful pebbles, beads, and stones. Children were giddy and exuding magic as they set in their fairy and elf cutouts. Grounding and inviting their imaginative friends home is a sociable and emotion-boosting exploration!

Peck me, Tweet me, Feed me

Airborne residents of the fairyland got oodles of love from the children as they embellished the yellow bird-feeders and feeding the magical birds with some corn and water. They decorated the house feeders in cute patchworks using scrape fabric cutouts. Chirping birds sounds in the environment were fitting to the pretend play themes formed by the children for feeding the colorful birds, dinosaurs, and tweeting away with them!

I’d like to tame a fairy,
To keep it on a shelf,
To see It wash its little face,
And dress its little self.
I’d teach it pretty manners,
It always should say “Please”;
And then you know I’d make it sew,
Fed And curtsy with its knees!