To not get the point of "fairy doors"??

[HoneyHoney10]

WTAF am I meant to do with it??

Ds (who is 3 by the way, more into paw patrol, tantrums and using my couch as his trampoline) was given one recently by an aunty. Its green and its still in the box, she keeps asking him if he's used it and he stares at her bewildered, my expression is not much different if im honest.

So what the hell do it do with it (apart from put it in the bin). 2 mums from ds's nursery have also started trying to add me to their business page on fb, they make and sell these doors apparently and i've heard a rumour they attend craft fairs dressed up in green tu tu's.

Are people really able to make a living from tiny badly painted bits of wood nowadays? If so Ill have a go at that, rather than the night shift im on tonight

dont you just stick them on the wall and look at them?

i dunno?
I'd just stick it on an outside wall, maybe a garden?

My 77 years old Gran bought me and my 50 year old aunt one for our birthdays

google tells me it is a fake decorative door.

i have no idea what it is supposed to do, other than be looked at..?

I went to a garden the other month that had over 30 for you to spot. They are fun and bring magic into your life.

I have one by the fireplace in my living room. I'm hoping the housework fairy will one day make her way through it.

A fake door? That fairies use?

Faries are magic and don't use doors.

I went to a garden the other month that had over 30 for you to spot. They are fun and bring magic into your life.

If paul daniels bursts into my house he better be bringing a hoover with him.

Having googled it, you're supposed to fix it to a wall, so that fairies can come in the house when they want. They may sometimes leave gifts or notes of encouragement regarding behaviour. It's supposed to encourage creative play. Not sure how.
It's either just another scheme to make parents part with their money, or another annoying thing to trick children with, in the same vein as Santa, and that then other poor parents have to play along to or incur the wrath of the parents who inflict this stuff on their children.

Give them dolls, lego or a science kit, IMO. Or read books to them.

What if they bring elves or pixies or piskies or skelpies with them? Sounds like bad news to me. Bloody fairies.

You can put them indoors on a skirting board so the fairies can use magic to open them and come in to your house. Especially useful for the tooth fairy.
Or you can get outdoor ones to put on tree trunks so that the fairies come to live in your garden.

Yanbu, return it. I hate them, fairy gardens seem different in some way, I took the dd's to the fairy wood this morning but I just don't see the point of fairy doors at home. Dd's friends have them, their parents write them notes from the fairies every night and hang clothes on their fairy clothes lines, i wouldn't have the patience for them myself

I had to google. I thought it was a euphemism for flaps

My 4yo similarly Paw Patrol obsessed son would barely look at it.

Fairies are nasty and they bite.

watched Labyrinth recently

It's just a bit of whimsy, I guess. Some of them don't look very weatherproof for the garden, though, especially not in our pissing it down three hundred days of the year weather.

Pmsl re. the drugs comment 🙊

Just googled them & apparently you can sell them for £20. Reckon I'll start making them!

I thought you were supposed to put them on the trunk of trees, so it looks like magic fairy folk live there (like the magic faraway tree)

My dd got one and she writes to the fairy...queue me going to the computer to type a response in fancy (non recognisable) writing. When she was being bullied it was wonderful to hear how she felt and offer " impartial" advice. My dts have one now snd I write them letters to support their jolly phonics readers.
It's improved their writing and is a different approach to learning but dd is 9 and dts are 5.
Its a bit of hassle but I think it works for me.
Lovely idea believing in fairies and no harm done.

I have seen a few of them. I think they can look quite cute in a bedroom or garden. Depends if your child is into fairies. My sister and I would have loved them as children, we were obsessed with fairies.

It's like any other decorative child's object

So are they like that creepy wee elf? Sort of a "behave because a stranger is breaking unit our house to spy on you" tool?

We have 2 for DDs' bedroom. We made them out of coloured ice lolly sticks (craft sticks? ) and buttons. DD1 was really proud of hers. She's told me it's so fairies can come and makes homes in our house when the garden gets too cold.