Instead of having a lot of separate games, I invented one fairy adventure game incorporating a series of activities. When everyone had arrived, I had all the girls sit in a ring and used one of my daughter's bigger, soft dolls to be 'Sparkle' the fairy. I made Sparkle be a puppet. Sparkle explained that she was supposed to be looking after the baby fairies, but she had got into a terrible muddle and had lost her fairy crown, her wand and her necklace (these were all craftily hidden in the garden beforehand). She then asked the children to help her find them and then help her do some magic to find the fairies again. The children then enthusiastically went into the garden to search for the objects. I made sure to have the last one round the side of the house, and as we were finding it, my husband hid the pieces for the next activity.  Once the wand, crown and necklace had been found, Sparkle asked the children to find the next clue to make magic. I had made a puzzle of a picture of the wendy house in the garden and we hid the puzzle pieces for the children to find (I put the children's names on them so that each child was in charge of one piece). Once they pieced together the puzzle and worked out the picture, they went to look in the wendy house which held a letter from the fairy queen and her 'wand' (one of these confetti wands you get for weddings, which shoot up biodegradable bits of coloured paper into the air). The letter asked the children to gather a variety of things (gold stones – painted beforehand, flower of various colours, etc.). Once these had been gathered, the children stood in a circle and Sparkle asked them to sing a magic song: 'If you want to help the fairies, clap your hands...' etc. I had collected all the objects the children had gathered in a basket with a doily on the bottom, beneath which was an envelope. I had the children say some magic words and we waved the wand to create 'fairy dust'. The envelope magically appeared in the basket and it said that the baby fairies were so exhausted, they were sleeping on my daughter's bed. The children rushed inside to find them. I had made one baby fairy for each child to take home as follows: I ordered cheap plastic little dolls (the ones with eyes that blink and movable joints), about an inch high, from a craft catalogue. I used lace to wind round them to make a bodice and three layers of pink net circles with a small hole in the middle to make skirts. I stuck on a pair of paper butterfly wings (I bought these in a pack but you could easily make them), and make twinkly shoes by dipping their feet in glue then glitter and a glitter halo on each little head. The whole 'game' took about half an hour and the children really enjoyed it. Especially when Sparkle asked them to each look after a fairy at the end. It was just the right age: they were totally prepared to suspend disbelief and buy into the story, and yet old enough to follow instructions.