When we arrived at the beach one morning we found two amazing events had occurred. Firstly, a huge madrone friend had fallen down, its smaller branches scattered across the beach. Second, someone had built a really cool little fairy house amongst the fallen branches. It all started when a few kids wanted to build more fairy houses, another suggested we needed to plant a forest around the house (after all fairies do live in forests)-- bits of madrone branches were used for trees. Finally, the kids that were digging heard someone mention a river and came over to dig a river through the forest. Some kids knew that rivers have tributaries and branches, so those were added. Others decided to make a lake at the bottom by creating a dam. To get the river really going, we soon realized that everyone would need to be ready to dump water at the same moment. This took such energetic focus and real teamwork!
Comments