A very clever girl named Lizzie showed me yesterday how to build these , and they’re kind of amazing. She knew how to construct many different kinds of fairy/elf homes in all square footage and rooflines (she’s read a great book on the topic). What a perfect summer afternoon activity, and what a perfect secret feeling knowing some of the tenants of your garden.
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You mean children can actually build their own structures out of natural materials? I thought I was supposed to buy them a fairy home at Pottery Barn Kids.
Not that I don’t love Pottery Barn, but this reminds me of the famous quote from child psychologist Jean Piaget: “Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered for himself, that child is kept from inventing it and, consequently, from understanding it completely.”
Same goes for prematurely giving a child something, seems to me. I’m going to buy that fairy home book for my girls right now (and retract my statements that fairies aren’t real).