Week Five - The Flower Fairies

The hand-written (by a 7 yr old) note read, "Happy 4th of July from the Flower Fairies."  And with mom driving the getaway car, we did a ring and run, placing the pot of red, white and blue flowers on their doorstep on the day of Independence.  I let the boys each choose someone to give one to and we ended up doing their church teachers and our bishop (shhh, don't tell them!).  They LOVED it!

 

Here's the Basic "How-To":

Fill the pots with dirt. We used dirt from our garden because I forgot to buy some.  :)  (And, yes, I am in my pajamas, because we did this at like 7:15 in the morning on the 4th so we could deliver them before going to church.)

Put one of each color flower in the pot.  Red, White and Blue for this holiday.  And since I know pretty much nothing about flowers, I looked for the color and the size, read the labels, and just hoped they all worked together.  (We had to move inside because it started raining on us, otherwise I would recommend this as an outside project.)

The boys were very happy about their final product and couldn't wait for the drop off.  Unfortunately I don't have pictures, because that was definitely the best part!  My boys smiled and laughed and hopefully we brought a smile to others' faces as well.














Total Cost of Project:
Flowers:  $9 (and I had some extra to plant in my front flower pot)
white pots from Ikea: $1.99 each x 4 = about $8
Dirt: free!

The original flower fairy idea (which I read somewhere and will definitely give credit when I remember where) was to actually plant flowers in someone's flower bed at night so they would have a wonderous surprise when they got up in the morning.  This didn't work for us, one, because my children rarely get to stay up until dark in the summer, and two, I didn't really know how someone would feel about that - maybe they had other plans.  So you decide for yourself.  The pots worked great for us and we had a fun, successful service project.  Godd luck with yours!