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Yesterday we went to see "The Spiderwick Chronicles" movie.  We thought it was a really good movie, but then again our taste runs a bit differently from some other homeschool familes.  Cake went to the library Monday and checked out all 5 of the Spiderwick books, as well as the field guide, and had them all read by Tuesday evening.  She thought they were wonderful so we decided to go to the movies for Valentines Day rather than go out to eat like all of the rest of the "masses" do.  Rabbit trail here:  We stopped going out for a romantic valentine dinner about 13 years ago.  We tried it for about 2 years after we were married and ended up fighting about where to go, how long we were going to have to wait, we would then leave, go somewhere else with an even longer wait, go back to the original restaurant, our name had already been called...we finally just decided we could be romantic on days other than Valentines Day, so we always order a pizza, stay at home and watch a movie!!

Now, back to the movie!  You can view a trailer for the movie here, you can find the field guide here as well;  this tells all about the characters.  Now if you really want to have fun you can make your very own, very cool Fantastical Field Guide that features a creature with its own field guide page as well as an activity.  Make sure you print in color because the page is really beautiful.

If you would like to print some activities such as Dressing your own Sprite you will find that here as well.  There are also writing pages to create your own story or change certain parts of "The Spiderwick Chronicles "to suit your own fancy.

Another fun thing we are doing today is making fairies out of silk flower petals.  You can get a bag of these at Wally World (as my husband likes to call it) for a dollar or so.  This is usually a big bag of mixed flower petals that have fallen off of the flower bush stem.  Here is one website that looks similar to the fairies we make. 

Here is an actual pdf description of how to make them

Flower fairy:

 

Lastly, here is a picture of one, but honestly the ones we have made are much prettier.  You can buy this book from Klutz..  The one at the bottom is a fantastic book by Heidi Boyd.  Tons of fairy crafts.  Hope you have as much fun as we did!