These cute and easy diy fairy wands are a perfect easy craft idea to make with any little fairy, pixie or princess! All you need are a few basic materials and a little creativity!
Here’s what we used
Coloured card for the star
Coloured paper for the stick
Ribbon
Scissors
Glue
Optional decorations such as stickers etc
How to make our simple diy fairy wands
First you’re going to need to create two identical stars, the easiest way to do this is to create a template star to draw around. You can either create your own template or print out our simple star that’s available for free below. Once you have your two stars pop them aside for a moment
Now you’re going to take a square of coloured paper to make the stick. Our square was roughly 20cm x 20cm.
Turn your square so one of the corners is pointing towards you. Begin rolling that corner to create a straw shape, you’re going to want to keep it small and tight. Once you reach the end secure the stick in place with a bit of glue.
Glue the stick onto the back of one of your stars
The glue the two stars together covering the stick in the middle of them both as you can see above.
Now it’s time for little one to decorate their magical diy wand by tying small lengths of ribbon around the top of the stick and adding any other optional decor.
Once totally dry the wands are ready to play with! Why not make some of our cute fairy wings to go with them!?
These super sweet handmade fairy wings are perfect as part of a diy costume for fancy dress or halloween! They’re actually really simple to make, and children will just love playing fairies and showing off their own handmade wings!
Here’s what we used
*Optional – Our free fairy wings template (available at the bottom of this page)
3 pieces of Coloured card
Scissors
A pen
A permanent marker
Glue
Glue gun
Decorations (ie tissue paper, paint, sequins)
Laminator and laminating pouches
Hole punch
Elastic
How to make our handmade fairy wings.
Take your first piece of card and draw one of your fairy wings onto it. If you have downloaded our template, you can simply cut out and draw around wing 1.
Now, it’s time to draw your second wing. This time, you’ll want to draw it facing the opposite way to the first. So, if you had the inner wing on the left before, draw it on the right this time. Again, you can use our provided template and use wing number 2.
Decorate your fairy wings in any way that yourself or your children would like to. On this set we used a toilet roll to paint hearts just like we did on our toilet roll valentines cards. But we’ve also used tissue paper and sequins on other wings too.
Once you have your decorated pieces, you’re going to need to pop them to one side until they are completely dry.
Cut out a rectangle around 8cm tall and 16cm wide. Or use our template rectangle to draw around.
Once dry, take your laminator, laminate all three of your pieces (2 wings and 1 rectangle) then cut off the excess laminate from all of your pieces.
Now take your hole punch and punch four holes into your rectangle shape, ensuring that the top and bottom hole on each side are aligned. This rectangle shape will be the divider bar that will go across the child’s back to space the wings out. The wings will attach near to where the holes are punched so you can measure it against your child’s back to determine where to punch your holes and how much of a divide they need between the wings.
Now that you have your holes punched, assemble the wings and rectangle together on a flat surface in front of you. Ensure that the holes you punched onto your divider rectangle are safely on your wings and not too close to the edge. (We tried to leave around 2 cm gap from the wings edge)
Once you’re happy with your placement, take your permanent marker and make a dot onto the wings in the centre of the punched holes of the divider. Just like you can see in the image above.
Now take your hole punch and punch holes through where your marks are. Not to worry if your hole punch doesn’t quite reach the marks, just punch them as close as you can to the marks.
Take your glue gun and glue the divider onto the wings so that the holes all match up.
Now simply take two good lengths of elastic (the size depends on the size of the child, I always overestimate the amount I need as its easier to make them smaller than it is to make them bigger!) Thread your frist piece of elastic through the holes on the left and tie the two ends together. Repeat this process on the right-hand side, and then your super cute and easy handmade fairy wings are ready for play!
We just love these cute diy fairy wings, but please note that children should always be supervised when playing with their wings and to practise good safety these wings aren’t suitable for children under the age of three.
This gorgeous printable jack and the beanstalk figures and growing beanstalk craft is a great follow-on activity for one of my all-time favourite kids’ stories! These can be used as a story talk to help children retell the story their own way. My two had loads of fun copying the original story and then making their own fun variations!
Here’s what you’ll need
Our free printable figures and plant pot template
Green card
Scissors
Glue
Tp roll or lollipop sticks (optional)
How to make our printable jack and the beanstalk figures and growing beanstalk
Start by cutting out the shapes of your plant pot, if you have printed our colourful desgin directly onto card you can just use the printed card. If you are instead using our template to draw around, you’ll need to draw the shapes onto your chosen card and cut them out.
Take the plant pot piece and snip along the dotted lines.
Now glue the two ends together to make the cylindrical shape of your plant pot and fold the cut tabs inwards so that they’re pointing towards the centre of the pot.
Cover the tabs in glue and then press the plant pot down onto a brown circle that will be the plant pot base.
Take your piece of paper and fold it in half lengthways, then again and then one more time. Cut along the lines to give you 8 green strips.
Take two of your green strips and glue them together on a right angle. Fold the bottom strip over the top strip and then the new bottom strip over the new top one
Continue this process all the way along to make a spring. Once you’ve reached the end, glue down the loose end of the paper strip.
Repeat this process two or three more times so that you have three or four springs and then glue the springs together to make one big long beanstalk.
Add a blob of glue to the centre of your plantpot and then glue one end of the beanstalk down in place inside the pot.
Take your little plant sprout, fold it along the line, and then glue the sprout onto your brown circle of soil.
Stretch your beanstalk out and glue on some little leaves along the. Stalk. Finally glue the circle of soil onto the end of the beanstalk. Once dry, your super cute printable growing beanstalk is finished! If you’d like to customise them a little more, then why not add some fun decorations to the little plant pots!
To finish off, take your printable characters and optionally laminate them and cut them out. You can use these in any way you like, for example you could attach lollypop sticks onto them to use them as puppets or alternatively you could do what we did and use sections of tp roll and glue them on the back to make them stand up. That’s what my daughter chose to do so that she could make up a story and record it too!
These cute toilet roll magic wands are inexpensive to make and provide hours of fun too!
My kids really loved the toilet roll flowers we made to decorate their rooms. They are forever playing with them and today they were using them as magic wands to turn each other into frogs and whatnot. I thought this was a fab idea and it gave us the inspiration to make these cute little toilet roll wands – I just love them! The kids have played with them for hours, they’re great for imaginative play and provide just as much fun as any store bought toy too. They need a lot of glue gun usage so require an adult to make.
Here’s what we used
Toilet rolls
Coloured paint and paintbrush
Wooden skewer (pointy end removed!)
Ribbon
Something for the middle (pom pom, button etc)
Scissors
Glue gun
How to make these toilet roll magic wands
Start by taking some paint and colouring the TP rolls and optionally the wand stick too. For this wand we used one blue roll, one white roll and a painted blue skewer (pointy end chopped off for safety!)
Once dry, take the tp roll that you will be using for the main part of the wand and chop it into five equal rings.
Use the hot glue gun to attach two rings both together and to the stick.
Finish adding the rest of the rings to make a star shape. for stability you will need to make sure they are glued to the rings on either side.
Take the secondary colour tp roll and cut it into 8 strips. Take two of your strips and fold them in half. Glue one of the strips inside the other as above and the repeat this three more times until you have four of these shapes.
Glue your shapes into the empty spaces between the rings of the wand as above. Then add a pom pom, a button or similar to the centre of the wand.
Add any finishing touches such as ribbon or sparkles and the magic wand is finished. These are great for imaginative play!
When is it considered acceptable to put up the Christmas decorations? With everything that’s been going on this year with covid and for us personally with loved ones being unwell, it just feels as if it’s about time the kids had something nice. Obviously we have no idea what the situation is going to be in December but I personally think that it’s looking likely that we won’t be able to have our big family Christmas. It sucks but at the end of the day if it does come to that we will just have to do what’s best for everyone. Even if this Christmas isn’t the same there is always something really warm and comforting about Christmas decorations and I know this year my house is going to be going full Santa’s grotto, hence why were making these cute little pinecone fairy Christmas decorations at the beginning of November!
This cute little craft definitely requires grown up aid if using a glue gun but it’s just too sweet to not share!
Heres what we used
Pinecone
Coloured paints
Pipe cleaners
Pom pom
String/cord
Mini craft sticks
Sequin
Glue gun
Scissors
How to make these festive fairy decorations
Take the pine cone and paint it in your chosen color before putting it aside to to dry.
Once your pine cone is dry, use your glue gun to attach a pom pom centrally on the bottom of the pine cone.
Take a length of pipecleaner and twist it centrally around the base of the pom pom until secure. This will make the fairy’s two arms, we then used a small dollop of glue to secure the fairy’s arms in position on the pine cone.
Make the wings by twisting the ends of a pipe cleaner together at the middle to make a figure of 8. Then take some cord and tie it into a loop. Glue the wings and loop securely on to the back of your pine cone.
Finish off by making a little wand for your pine cone fairy Christmas decoration. To make ours we used a mini crafting stick and a festive sequin! Once you have your wand twist it into the end of one of arms so that it looks as if she is holding it. Once dry your festive fairies are ready to hang on the tree or gift to a loved one!
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