Fairy Houses

While grocery shopping at Target, I found a set of fairy shrinky dinks on sale. I thought they looked cute and like something my eight year old would have fun with so I threw them in the cart. She loved them and brought them with her that night to my La Leche League meeting to color. The next evening the boys went out together which left just us girls home so we decided to bake the shrinky dinks. Tanner and Aravis colored the remaining fairies, flowers and assortment of other fairyish things and we put them in the oven. We hadn't done shrinky dinks in a long time and I'm not sure if Aravis had ever done them so it was still pretty cool to open the oven and find them transformed to miniature versions of themselves. 

 All the cute little fairies and fairy things inspired the girls to want to make fairy houses. So the next day, Tanner and Dominick biked to the shoe store around the corner which has promised to meet their every shoe box need and procured two shoe boxes. After several days spent at the dining room table watching practically all 3 seasons of  H2O on Netflix and crafting all kinds of miniature amenities, this is what they came up with. I must say, that even as their mother, who thinks every thing they do is amazing, I was pretty blown away with these.

Tanner's Fairy House

bedroom
she cut out dresses from a magazine and hung them in the closet

living room

bath

everything in the bathroom can really hold water

kitchen 

 the table is made from the bottom of a soda can and toothpicks and 

the bottles on the counter are the tops from glitter glue tubes

minimalist bedroom

and the outside is neatly camouflaged

Aravis's Fairy House

the view from the outside

bunkbeds

the bathroom

the living room

the coffee table is made from the top of a soda bottle and some cork board

the kitchen

Dominick contributed the refrigerator

And while we're on the subject of creating with boxes.....

My in-laws recently moved and my kids begged for some of their larger boxes. Dominick turned his into a house, Aravis made a rocket ship and then later turned it into a car and Tanner made a limo. I didn't get a chance to take pictures of Dominick and Aravis's before they were damaged and laid to rest in the recycling bin but I did get a picture of Tanner's.

She even made a stick shift.