Fairy Friends – Day 1 – Fairy Camp LA

What a positively fairy fantastic way to start a new week of camp!

The kids are wonderful and fun – and I am positive that many new friendships are on the rise!

After early morning songs, dance and rule explaining,

the kids had snack and then found this note:

Dear Friends,

Oh how exciting for all the fairies to see your delightful faces! We see so many familiar friends – and are so grateful and excited to see new friends as well!

Welcome to Griffith Park! Home of many fairy tribes, including mine – the tribe of Shlittersnence in the village of Hanalonkawich.

My name is Dossledorf and I am the communications fairy. My job, as some of the children here can tell you, is to pass messages to the fairies from you and from the fairies to you! I love my job. I love how the messages turn the kids and fairies into pen pals and friends.

This week is a new kind of camp. Everything is very fa la la here in Hanalonkawich, but we’ve been getting some feelings of strife from our beloved friends in the forest. The fairies and I were thinking that perhaps you gentle children could help them out? That maybe, just maybe, our friends could become your friends?

If you are interested, my fairy friends and colleagues have set up a plan.

Please go to the fairy village of Hanalonkawich for a surprise and a favor!

With love,

Dossledorf

The kids were excited to see what was up – so we headed to Hanalonkawich right away!

When we got there, we found not one but TWO SURPRISES.

There were boxes surrounding the Hanalonkawich tree – and a note to go with it:

Children!

Such excitement was just happening here in Hanalonkawich! The fairies have left you a special surprise, and well, wouldn’t you know it? I have too!

Here are your very own communication treasure boxes. These boxes will help us pass notes to and fro AND allow me to answer any curious questions you may have. I can’t wait to see what you will ask about fairy land, the fairies or our friends!

Please decorate this with your own sense of magic.

Can’t wait to see them!

Yours, Dossledorf

When we returned from the village the kids did a great job of putting a lot of fairy magic into them!

The other surprise were beautiful vials of fairy dust and a note that said:

Sweet Children,

How lucky we feel to know you and to get to accompany you throughout these days. As our friend, Dossledorf, has mentioned, all the fairies here in Hanalonkawich are healthy, happy and doing marvelous. A lot of that has to do with the work your friends have done in earlier camps.

We do however, have friends in the forest that do need some help. Some need safe places, some need love, and some need simply to be understood.

Today, would you please create a home for the friends you will meet in the next two weeks? As your friendships grow, so will your Fairy Friend Garden, or, as we say, “Glapidious”.

Please, find a stick with many branches – as many branches as friends you hope to make. Use this stick as a friendship tree – Melissa and Sue will help you with this. They learned about it in Fairy School.

Make a sign, a sign that will welcome your new fairy friends… and each day watch your Glapidious grow.

Like gardens, friendship needs love and attention to grow.

We just know you will do a wonderful job. As a sign of our appreciation, please take one beautiful bottle of fairy dust and hang it in your Glapidious. The friends of fairies will be drawn to its magic.

With love,

The fairies

After lunch we set to work on our Glapidiouses. The kids got fairy stones and rocka rocka flowers to help decorate their gardens. They also made signs to let the friends know it was a safe place to come!