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Imaginative Play Fairy Gardens
- Functions
- Imaginary Play, Play with Equipment/Props and Play with plants/garden materials
Fairy Gardens is a form of imaginative play Children use leaves, flowers and trees to make houses for the fairies.
Details
At School 06
Players: 2-4
Girls
Age: 9
Props: Flowers, leaves etc from the garden
See attached form for transcribed interview with informants.
At School 09
Players: 6
Girls and Boys
Age: 7-8
Props: Bushes, Flowers, Leaves and Grass.
See attached form for full details.
At School 01
Players: 2
Girls
Age: 7-8
Props: Bushes, Flowers, Leaves and Grass.
Two girls played a game of fairies. They told the fieldworkers - 'we are elves finding crystals' . They make fires of sticks and leaves and claim that 'we have baddies but we always win'
At School 03
Players: 6
Girls
Age: 7-9
Props: Bushes, Flowers, Leaves and Grass.
Sports shed area. Millipede discovered and placed in fairy house.
Players: 2
Girls
Age: 9
Garden for fairies construction under gum tree in sandpit