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fairy magic spells

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Judy adding ingredients to our magic potion Pointing at where "diwata" fairies might exist Francine placing a sticker to mark the map   What are faires?    Are fairies real or are they just found    mixing & chanting                                                         Bela's turn to mix       in stories? turn you into a rock! The children have plenty to say about fairies. They think fairies are definitely real and are "magical teeny-tiny things who look like people but with wings and live in an enchanted forest and turn other things into something else" a definition composed by Judy, Aston, Lucas and Simon.  The children's description of fairies are sort of limited to what they might see on tv and the typical fairytale stories so to broaden their ideas we looked at other types of fairies from other parts of the world. They were so surprised to learn that there were also fairies in Africa.  I shared fairy stories I