After many days of carefully creating fairy habitats, it was time for the big night!
In honor of the event, The Princess even read a special fairy book.
Normally, we assemble the fair village outside but sadly this year the wind did NOT cooperate and were forced to set up inside in the dining room.
My awesome mushroom hut!
Cinco’s clay fairy huts lined a path leading to the golden castle and several small boxes painted with metallic colors were also displayed.
The castle also had many lovely embellishments including feathers and the famous golden fairy wings! A small bottle of fairy beads was also laid out for the visitors.
Additionally, my attempt at a milk jug fairy home was also included off to the side.
Fairy Forest Cafe (FFC as Cinco called it) had several tables and chairs set out in front of it and included a Fairy Forest Cafe sign (not pictured).
And, many lovely dishes of fairy food were set out as well. I was particularly fond of the mini-cinnamon rolls and tiny bread.
When we awoke in the morning, The Captain reported that both the front and back doors were flung open. NO JOKE! Whether it was the fairies or the wind who can say?
In true fairy style, they left a note, presents and of course fairy dust.
Both children were gifted magical glowing necklaces.
And, Cinco received a mini hot-wheels set (how perfect), as well as puzzle from the mischievous Puck. They also left behind a few wolves to inhabit the dog house that Cinco made.
The Princess was given a cute fairy wand and a paint your own fairy statue. I was forgotten yet again by the fairies. But then, I suppose those over 21 don’t get magical prizes.
which features lots of fairies including one that shares The Princess’ name. To top it off we watched Epic 
which takes place on the Summer Solstice, but doesn’t actually involve fairies.
Next, we made mini baseball caps together. We made two sets of 9 caps each, enough to field two fairy teams. Cinco and I like the blue cap best because they remind us of the KC Royals.
This year the kids wanted to go with more of a nature theme and he decided to create a cave for the fairies. He covered the entire outside of the cave with stones.
The house was lovingly created from an old Go-gurt box. Rocks and shells added to the nature theme. The fairies also have an outdoor picnic area complete with mushrooms for stools.
and Cinco got a sports inspired quidditch necklace 
. These are sprinkles commonly eaten in Holland, and were inspired by our trip this summer to see The Dutchman. I haven’t had these since I was in grade school… and personally, I am looking forward to eating them as well.
Start by cutting out a bill for your cap. Hot glue it to the bottle cap.
Glue a medium pom-pom to the top of the bottle cap. Then carefully cover your hat in duck tape taking care not to tape down the pom-pom too much or you baseball cap will look more like a civil war officer’s hat.
The bow and arrow is finished! We got the idea from 
You can get the paper on Amazon for about $6. I buy this one even though its sold as a “re-fill” pack. It comes with everything you need and why pay more a
For books, we continued our Midsummer Night’sDream for kids. They really loved that one of the character’s is named Nick Bottom. I tried to make the connection for them that Bottom was turned into an “ass” but I am not really sure they understood where I was going with that “joke”.
We bought this solar power kit (I got it for $4 new @ Goodwill– go figure) The kit was not quite as easy as they suggested it would be on the box. We had to use the glue gun to make sure all the parts stuck together, especially the Eiffel Tower–which would NEVER have stayed together without the glue gun!
We also made a wand for the fairy princess! But sadly, we did not have the time to make the bow and arrow. I guess that has to wait until tomorrow!
Even mom campers have to eat, so we went to Trader Joe’s. We didn’t let that car ride go to waste.We listened to Shakespeare for Children by Jim Weiss. It’s a children’s version of two of Shakespeare’s plays on the disk narrated by Jim Weiss. I love his CD’s and now you can you can get audio downloads of his work on Amazon, which is new and great! We listened to Midsummer Night’s Dream on the car ride. The story is a little confusing with so many changes in the love triangles.
. This book fit so perfectly with our activities today!
The Booky Mom 
