{"id":1317,"date":"2009-12-13T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2009-11-25T18:11:15","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:11:15","slug":"fantastic-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1317","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Fairies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fairies.jpg\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1318\" title=\"fairies\" src=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fairies.jpg\" alt=\"fairies\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fairies.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fairies-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/fairies-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 12pt;\"><span><strong>Build a fairy bower.<\/strong> To make a twinkling hideout, hang flowered sheets over two strings suspended between walls. Then run holiday lights under the sheets (alongside the strings), and your daughter will have a sparkling fairy bower where she can eat fairy food: tiny jelly sandwiches and tea with honey and a drop of pink food coloring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 8.35pt 0in 0pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Make fairy dust.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Pull petals off roses and other flowers and lay them out overnight so they air-dry and crumble easily. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">The next day, have your child paint a cookie sheet with glitter glue (you can find it at craft stores). <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">After it dries (in about an hour), peel it off in one sheet and let your child cut it up into small pieces. <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Combine the flowers and bits of glitter glue together and store in a tiny glass jar, which your child can also decorate with flower stickers or metallic pens. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Catch a movie.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"> Two gems for kids 5 and up: <em>Fairy Tale: A True Story<\/em> ($15 DVD or VHS, Paramount) is the classic film (and real-life story) about two girls in England who take photos of fairies and find them-selves at the center of controversy \u00e2\u20ac\u201d do fairies really exist? \u00e2\u20ac\u201d during World War I. For a more modern and hilarious cinematic take on fairies, try <em>Ella Enchanted<\/em> ($20 DVD, $16 VHS, Disney), a tale of magic gone awry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Look up fairy lore.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"> You&#8217;ll find the names and stories of hundreds of fairies in the &#8220;Fairy Lore&#8221; section of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efairies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: windowtext; mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS;\">Efairies.com<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a>. There&#8217;s also access to loads of merchandise, from books to shimmery dresses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build a fairy bower. To make a twinkling hideout, hang flowered sheets over two strings suspended between walls. Then run holiday lights under the sheets (alongside the strings), and your daughter will have a sparkling fairy bower where she can eat fairy food: tiny jelly sandwiches and tea with honey and a drop of pink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,9],"tags":[168,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}