Fairies in the Garden and Monsters in the Closet

We have a lot of magical creatures living all around us. The fairies in the garden have been with us all summer. Liam and his friend Maddy go in the yard and put out flower petals for the fairies and build little dugout homes for them. Maddy gave Liam a book on Garden Fairies for his birthday. So, when Liam was wondering what to do on Sunday afternoon I suggested he build a fairy house in the garden. We found some rocks, some sticks and a nice spot. Liam piled up the rocks, and tried to build a roof structure with the sticks. I gave him some glitter glue and ribbons and he went on to make a pretty cool structure for his fairies. He then put some glittery jewels in there as well.

So I asked him whether he thought the fairies would like the new home he built for them. He gave me a look that said :"I'm way ahead of you, have been pursuing a different project all along..." He says: "It's not a house for them. It's a fairy trap. They'll come because they like all the jewels in there and then I will have them in my trap and I'll put them in the watering can and pour them out all over the garden!"

It certainly attracted Anouk - so his plan seems to work in theory. We have yet to find fairies in the trap, but that's OK.

When I opened my closet the other day I found a small stack of pictures at the bottom of the closet. All pictures by Liam - all pictures of monsters. He thought that these monsters should live in the closet. I'm unsure whether they were supposed to scare me or whether he wanted to put them away with other monsters that live in the closet...