Making Fairy Houses

[Rhianna813]

Hi Folks,

I shared this in the Parenting forum because it's geared towards kids but I wanted to share it here too.

http://www.fairyhouses.com/home.html

The website aims to reconnect kids with nature by making natural material wee lil homes for the Fay! Natural items can be whatever is in your yard, neighborhood, forest or beach. Do not use live plants or kill anything to make the homes, only use whatever has already fallen. Pinecones, twigs, leaves, acorns, moss, shells, feathers, stones, bark, etc... It's also good to build these homes in out of the way spots where they blend into the nearby flora.

Click on the Pictures link to see many examples of the homes.

I love this idea and have been collecting items from my yard (what a treasure trove hehehe) to make a couple of my own. Nice way to decorate, naturally.

Rhianna

[Cindlady2]

I should do that with my grand kids when they get a little older.

[Psycmoe]

*squee* My sister and I did that when we were young. We had them all over the land. If you'd asked us then, we would have sworn up and down and backwards that there were faries and gnomes (remember David the Gnome? That's what inspired us.) living in our little houses. No one ever asked us, of course. I even figured out a way to make beds out of smashing grass and drying it.