The wildflowers in the garden are charming, --growing along the fence, pushing their way up through prairie grass, hiding in the shadows under bushes. We have a few books for identifying them and they're really fun to draw and add watercolors to later. I love learning about them.
There's a fun series of books by Cicely Mary Barker called Flower Fairies, maybe you already know it? These books have been around for a long time and I'd nearly forgotten about them until I saw them at the library a few weeks ago.
They've got some really sweet poems and pictures but they're also helpful in identifying common flowers and plants each season and great for getting little ones interested in seasons. Little S loves it when we find a fairy flower from the book because then he gets to see the picture of the fairy who lives there and go out and look for it. It's so cute to see him peeking under rocks for them with a really concentrated expression on his face.
The Flower Fairies offical site.
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My nan was a huge fan of the Flower Fairies so I have all the books from when I was a child. I always wanted to be Candytuft ;)
There were flower fairies dolls in the UK when I was a kid at one point, I'd forgotton about that till now.
I have a photo editing question...what do you use to make the collage? Flickr doesn't have that application...
I use Picasa for most things. You can download it for free.
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