I noticed lots of the children were knocking on our fairy door recently.
Our little door backs onto our staff kitchen and when we ‘knocked back’ it caused near hysteria! We decided to set up some fairy play to see if we could entice the fairies out of their house. You can imagine the excitement when the CCTV picked up a real fairy flying in our small world area! (Click on the picture to take you to Instagram, where I shared the video.)
There was also a letter from the fairies…
… and we found fairy dust all over the place!
This inspired the children to write lots of letters and draw pictures for the fairies…
So much fairy fun! Here are some of the other activities we enjoyed…
Mark Making in Fairy Dust
Glitter, a cotton bud and my early handwriting pattern cards. Oh so popular!…
You can download the pattern cards for free here: Mark making Pattern Cards from Rachel (“,)
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Fairies in the Small World Area
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Wrapping Wands at Finger Gym
… sticks, wool, pipe cleaners and beads…
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Pegging Mini Clothes on the Washing Line
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Discovery Table
Creating transient art pictures for the fairies…
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Light Panel
Pom-poms, tweezers and ‘fairy jars’…
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Maths Play
… inspired by the fairies…
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Potions in the Water Tray
I was kindly given these potion bottles from TTS and we absolutely love them!
They were perfect for simple potion making in the water tray this week…
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Building with Rainbow Blocks
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Tracing Line Designs on the OHP
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Dough Play
… with loose parts and fairies…
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Hi, where did you get the wooden mark making tray?
Mine was from a craft fair, but you can get the same one from Amazon (in the UK, anyway) – search ‘card display tray’ 🙂
Hello-
You have such beautiful invitations for your children. I would love to get the titles of some of the books that you use along with your invitations.
Thank you for so many beautiful ideas.
I try to remember to take closer images of the books I use, but often forget. Sorry! Will continue to try to remember. Let me know if there are particular pictures you see books in, if you can’t make out the titles 🙂
PS. Thanks for the lovely comment!
Can you tell me how you added the fairy to the video please? I can’t imagine any child not loving this!
Thank you for the awesome inspiration.
I used the ‘I Saw the Tooth Fairy’ app 🙂