irish magical creatures

Irish Magical Creatures

Fairies

• Believing in fairies is the only way to have one live with you.• Fairies shed their wings two times a year. Watch out for small feathers in your house. If you find some you know you have a fairy very close by!• Fairies like to eat human food. Their favourite snacks are raisins. They absolutely cannot eat cheese as they turn orange. • Animals can see fairies.

• Fairies like to sleep during the day and work at night. Every time a human sees a fairy, they lose a small bit of their magic. For that reason fairies tend to appear when everyone in the house is asleep.

• Fairies originated in Ireland.

• Fairies smell like strawberries.

• In order to collect teeth, your fairy must sit 3 exams.

• Fairies love shiny things, like old buttons, charms and paperclips.• Your fairy collects your teeth and takes care of them very carefully. Your baby teeth hold all of your first childhood dreams, memories and wishes. Having them close, keeps your fairy happy and healthy.• Fairies wear brightly-coloured fitted clothes.• Fairies are multilingual and can speak every single language in the world.

• If you don’t believe in fairies, yours will begin to lose magic and must be rehomed.• Fairies are amazing. Every part of their bodies is packed with magic, love and wonder.

The Tooth Fairy song

Leprechauns

• According to legend if a human catches a leprechaun that leprechaun must grant that human three wishes in exchange for his freedom.• There are no female leprechauns.• Leprechauns are shoemakers.• Some stories say they hide their gold coins in a pot at the end of the rainbow.

• Some legends say leprechaun carry one gold coin for every year they have been alive.• Some people claimed to have seen a leprechaun and say they are real. • Lucky Charms cereal has a leprechaun as a mascot.

Little leprechaun

song

What are the colours of the rainbow in order?

RED

ORANGE

YELLOW

GREEN

BLUE

INDIGO

VIOLET

LET’S SING THE RAINBOW SONG!!

The Giant’s Causeway

Giant Fionn Mac Cumhail

LET’S READ THE STORY

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