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Fairy Soup Pretend Play

May 16, 2014 by OneMommy

 

 

Warm weather means more time spent outdoors.  With all the spring flowers popping up, and the kids still being in fairy-mode from our first Tooth Fairy visit and making new fairy houses for the year, making Fairy Soup was the perfect pretend play activity this week.

Making Fairy Soup -- pretend play

 

I first saw the idea of Fairy Soup at Happy Hooligans.  She has so many fun ideas!

I gave the kids a couple small buckets to collect flowers, leaves, and whatever else they wanted to put in their fairy soup.

making fairy soup for pretend play

 

 

The kindergartner began picking lots of pink and white flowers.

The preschooler decided he was making “Beetle Soup” instead.  (He also chose to make a “Beetle House” instead of a fairy house.  Same fun, but giving it his own twist!)

To start his Beetle Soup he got a big shovel of dirt to add to the water.

Boy version of fairy soup for pretend play

 

 

Then he added handfuls of grass, gravel from the driveway, and a bit of the glitter I had brought out.  (Kids just can’t resist glitter!)

Once he had his muddy concoction made, he checked out his sister’s flowery one….and he decided he wanted to make a new soup!

fairy soup sensory pretend play

 

 

They both spent almost an hour adding flowers, stems, leaves, glitter (and more glitter, and more glitter….) to their soup.  Then they poured it into small containers to sit by their fairy and beetle houses.   After all, they wanted to make sure the fairies could find plenty of food!

I never expected this activity would last so long, but they were having a blast!  We will definitely be doing it again this year!

 

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Filed Under: Sensory Play Tagged With: playing outside, pretend play, spring, water play

Comments

  1. Leslie says

    May 16, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    That is some tasty looking fairy soup.

    • OneMommy says

      May 16, 2014 at 7:55 pm

      Definitely yummy if you are a fairy!

  2. Emma @ P is for Preschooler says

    May 16, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    Such fun imaginary play! And it comes out so pretty – must be all that glitter! lol!

    • OneMommy says

      May 23, 2014 at 3:59 pm

      Oh, it is definitely the glitter! (And since it was outside, I didn’t even mind them going nuts with it!)

  3. Jennifer Dawn says

    May 27, 2014 at 10:25 pm

    What an amazing idea! So magical and fun!

  4. Rebecca says

    May 31, 2014 at 4:37 am

    My girls love doing this. They call it perfume making. I’ve featured this on the Sunday Showcase this week.

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