Brownies bring a bit of fairy magic to Dunshaughlin
Youngsters create over 60 hand-painted doors representing local business and voluntary groups
The Dunshaughlin Brownies with the support of the local community have created a fairy village to ‘bring some sparkle’ to the village.
The magical fairy village features over 60 hand- painted doors representing local business and voluntary groups.
Christine Daly, Head Leader said the idea was born to “bring a smile to people’s faces” after a tough year.”
“With a lot of people being stuck at home this year we wanted to create something for people to enjoy and to bring a bit of magic to the village. We contacted the Tidy Towns group who spoke to the parish who said it was ok to use the site in ‘The Friendship Garden in St Patrick’s Hall.
“It is a little garden that the Tidy Towns group has developed that originally belonged to the old school built in the 1800s.”
The fairy doors not only bring some colour to the community but also pay homage to the many wonderful businesses and voluntary groups according to Christine who said: “We ordered blank fairy doors and decided to give any voluntary groups in the community a free door and we asked local businesses to sponsor a door at the cost of €10 and the girls painted their company colours and business name on the door.
“Then on the last Saturday in November the girls met up in two separate pods and had great fun for a couple of hours designing and putting the village together.
“A local café who sponsored a door donated hot chocolates and cookies for the girls to eat as a treat while they were busy at work. The girls are so proud of it and were all awarded their Covid badge for their hard work. “It’s an ongoing project and we are hoping that in the new year we can encourage people to buy a family door.”
The head leader says there is a lot more to the Brownies than people might think:
“The whole Brownie programme is to encourage positivity and create give them the belief that they can be whatever they want to be in the future and to get out of that old mind set of what a girl or a woman should be.
“A lot of people think it is just about camping but the girls have been involved with science projects with DCU.
“In recent years we have encouraged engineering, space badges and pilot badges, it’s important to raise their self esteem and instil the belief that women are just as good as men in the world.”