Marygold the fairy says, "We love to fly around, and sometimes we get very tired or cold. If we spy an inviting retreat, it's awfully hard to resist."
Check out the fairy house instructions below and then make your own fairy house. Build the house out of natural materials, such as
fallen twigs, driftwood, pinecones, and bark found on the ground. Don't
pick materials from living plants or trees and sure not to disturb an
animal's home. You'll find that once you begin, it's hard to stop – you may just create an entire village!
Material: Sticks Bark Pinecones Pebbles Small Branches Feathers Other natural materials such as shells and stones
Directions: 1) Pick a safe, protected spot to place your fairy house (for example, against a tree or stone wall.) 2) Poke sticks and bark into the ground and prop them against each other to hold the walls and roof in place. 3) Use pinecones for a beautiful fence, tiny pebbles for a pathway to the front door, a bent pussy willow branch as an archway, and a feather to decorate a birch bark chimney. 4) When the home is finished, tuck a house-warming present inside. Perhaps a clover flower (fairies use them for pillows), an acorn cap cup, stems of lavender (splendid wands), ripe berries, or some other surprise.
Fairy Furniture
Material: twigs, vines, dried flowers needle and thread scrap material scissors hot glue gun pruners to cut the twigs
Decide what you're going to make.
Directions for a Chair: 1) Cut the twigs, one long, bendable piece that will form the back legs and back of the chair, and four equal lengthed twigs which will form the two front legs and the seat.The chair should stand no more than four inches tall (including the back). 2) Bend the long twig,and hot glue one of the smaller pieces in between the two ends where you want the seat to be.This will be the back of the seat. 3) Hot glue on each side of the bent twig facing towards you a smaller twig; these will be the sides of the seat. 4) Glue the front piece of the seat to these side twigs. 5) Glue the two front legs to the seat so that the chair legs are even. 6) wrap the vines around the chair back and legs. 7) Cut the scrap material to form a "back" and a "seat" - these are NOT to be as wide as the chair, but will fit inside of the twigs. 8) Using your needle and thread, attach the material to the chair using a whip stitch. 9) Hot glue small dried flowers at the top of the chair.
This technique can be used to make all kinds of fairy furniture. Try to make some tables, beds, or sofas - all of which are sure to delight your fairies! You can make little tea cups too from dried flower cups!
