The Fairy Village

Wild Chestnuts!

We took a break today from indoor projects and head out to the forest to forage for wild nuts. We scored!

Yummy Beechnuts

A few hours later, we came home with not only a tasty harvest of chestnuts and a snack of beechnuts, but Cypress and Zephyr came home with a new costume of scary beechnut claws, and Indigo some more twigs for her back garden Fairy Village.

The Fairy village started out as just a few houses after one of their BFF's spent the day with us yesterday. Since weather was warm enough, we took their BFF on a woodlands walk to gather 'supplies' (feathers, acorns, twigs, rocks, leaves) and then spent the day building Fairy Houses.  I've reassured my children that the Fairies of Goring-by-Sea are thoroughly enjoying their little village at night.  Here's a few photo's of the growing village (just in case you're a Fairy passing by and need a place to stay :)

I love the fence of bird feathers in the back

in case you're wondering, the trail of acorns is leading to a
Squirrel Trap that Indigo built (she's sort of moving on from
Fairy Houses and on to Squirrel Traps)

The Squirrel Trap

Behind the scenes of the Fairy Village

Fairy Village Supplies we gathered

Getting down to it

One of their BFF's

Even Zman got in to it

Z's Fairy House

Bad picture of the Fairy Village

Wish I had a night-vision camera to capture
the fairies having big parties here