Fairy dolls have been in fashion for over 100 years and the Irish have been spinning yarns about them for at least three thousand years!
You can make a wire thin fairy doll for your little one to play with using whatever you have hoarded inside a craft drawer or bin. Use your imagination to make every little person uniquely different. Before you know it, there will be a fanciful village of fairy dolls living somewhere in and around the home!
After a fairy tires from entertaining small children, she will usually prefer to rest inside Christmas collections for the tree until some other small person spies her among the holiday branches and carries her off for a new adventure. It's true, I have even read a story about it in a book by Rumer Godden here!
After a fairy tires from entertaining small children, she will usually prefer to rest inside Christmas collections for the tree until some other small person spies her among the holiday branches and carries her off for a new adventure. It's true, I have even read a story about it in a book by Rumer Godden here!
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| Finished fairy in the garden! |
- printed butterfly wings: blue butterfly, brown and blue butterfly wings
- cardboard (cereal box)
- 1" wooden bead
- 2 pom-poms of the same color
- clippings of artificial flowers (silk petals/leaves)
- two chenille stems
- two cotton balls
- ribbon
- hot glue gun and hot glue
- white school glue
- paint for the face, arms and legs
- lace trims and ribbons
- Mod Podge (optional)
Step-by-Step Instructions:
- Bend both chenille stems in the middle and cut approximately three inches from the arm extensions.
- Measure down the length of the bend on each 1/2 inch and mark this lightly with a pen. This fuzzy area of the chenille stems will be glued inside of your 1/2" wooden beed and should not be shaved off with scissors. You want this part to be bulky so that the beed will nestle over it with a snug attachment.
- Shave the armature (chenille stems for arms and legs) with a pair of scissors.
- Unravel the cotton balls and layer the shaved stem parts with white glue and batting. Roll these areas between the palms of your hands until the chenille wire stems are neatly coated.
- Bend the stems in half and glue the unfinished fuzzy areas of the armature inside the wooden bead. This will be the head of the fairy doll.
- Roll up the tips of the arms and legs just a bit for the hands and feet of the fairy.
- Paint the armature the color of your preference with acrylic.
- Now wrap or sew a ribbon to the torso of the wire fairy figure.
- Take apart a silk flower carefully. Detach the petals and hot glue these to the wire fairy's torso to look like a skirt.
- Print, cut and paste butterfly wings onto light weight cardboard and brush on Mod Podge.
- Hot glue the wings to the doll body at the back
- Hot glue on pom-poms to the doll's head for hair
- Glue on lace trims at the neck
- Paint a simple face on the doll's bead head.
- Glue on any remaining trims like a button for the collar or extra leaves to the head for a fanciful fairy doll look.
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| Left, the chenille stem armature. Center, details of our enchanted fairy doll. Right, the tiny fairy feet. |
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