International Fairy Tea Party 2015

This was our third year participating in the International Fairy Tea Party. Every year looks different from the last. This year was a very hot day and eating outside comfortably was not an option. 

We started the day by decorating a fairy house with sparkles, which can be seen here.

We shared a fairy book down in the woods, before we came up to our classroom.

I told the children that I had seen some flutters and flitters up by the school and suggested that maybe the fairies had arrived to see the new house they had created. 

When we arrived inside the school, we couldn't find any fairies, but we did find a wonderfully decorated lunch the fairies had left behind for us to say thank you. 

International Fairy Tea Party 2015: Inviting the Fairies

I saw an old bird feeder for $1 at a roadside farm stand. I instantly saw a fairy house. Here was the first part of our day on September 18th, for the International Fairy Tea Party. 

Glue and Sequins = Magic

Because, as one child said, "Fairies like shiny things."

International Fairy Tea Party 2014

This is the second year that we have participated in this growing event created by Fafu and Interaction Imagination. You can see our photos from last year here. 

Of course I always have a lot of big plans on pinterest, but it is a busy time of year and I need to remember to start preparing ahead of time!!  When the day arrived I decided to keep it simple and stick with an Autumn colors theme. We talked a lot about what colors we find in autumn. In the morning we made crowns covered with Fall-colored scribbles and paper scraps and fake leaves. Outside they walked around with their tape covered sticks to add collections from nature. 

Then we prepared the feast. Leaf shaped peanut butter toast, with red and green fairy sprinkles. We picked apples and grapes from our playground. I added a tiny bit of juice to the water to make pink "fairy juice."  

While they ate their picnic, I read them "Wild Child," by Lynn Plourde.

They made "soup" with the leftover grapes and apples and offered it to the woodland creatures.

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Our Fairy House

On Tuesday we were still exploring rocks when half the kids were interested in building a fairy house. They decided that since you can use rocks to build fairy houses and they both are in nature, that it all went together. 

As if we need a reason to build a fairy house.

Fairy pool with diving board.