Fairy Garden

My daughter and I have been working on a fun project...we're creating a fairy garden. In case you don't know, a fairy garden is a place where the fairies live and right now we are getting the garden ready for winter so the fairies have a nice warm place to stay.  It's still a work in progress, but this is what we have added to our fairy garden so far.

This has been such a fabulous project because it is exciting to see the joy, imagination, and excitement that my daughter has for the fairy garden.  Plus it has been inexpensive.  I have only purchased a couple items, but everything else I had around the house .

We created our fairy garden under a nice tree in our yard.  The bird house, which is the fairy house, we found on clearance at the store.  It has a small door at the back for a perfect fairy entrance and the hole at the top is a great window.  We put some grass inside the house so it is soft and comfortable for the fairies.

We also put a small pot of food out for the fairies so they will know to come and stay.  We walked around our yard and found fairy-sized tomatoes, crab apples, seeds, and flowers.  The small flower pot is my daughter's that she used to grow her own sunflowers.  We turned it upside down and now it is a table for the fairies.  We also found a large flat rock as another fairy table.

Surrounding the fairy food and house we decorated the fairy garden with lots of pine cones and fake flower bouquets--they provide more shelter for the fairies.We found lots of pine cones for small trees

Tea Party

Today was just a day for my daughter and I.  I considering going out somewhere to do something.  But then I thought, why not relax today.  It feels like we are always going places, rushing from place to place to do things and get things done.  Sometimes my daughter just needs to be home together--and we both enjoy it.  So we kept it simple and played at home.

So, instead of going out...

we hosted a tea party.  A baby doll tea party.

Together we got out the easy bake oven (that my daughter has wanted to use for awhile), found a recipe and baked a mini cake.  We also made some graham cracker cookies with chocolate frosting (one of my favorite treats growing up).  We got out her little card table, spread a table cloth, and then set the table with my nice china dishes.  Instead of tea we filled the tea pot with milk and I sliced a few plums to balance out the sweets.

After the table was set, my daughter collected her baby dolls and we all gathered around the table for the tea party.

After we were done eating we played one UNO--a fun, family card game.  We both had so much fun today--talking, pretending, and laughing together!