Enchanted Fairy Garden Art Activity

We are celebrating the Danny's Urban Fairies project this week! In the spirit of urban fairies, here is an art activity we did the first week of July with our camp for 3-6 year olds. It is quite an in depth activity and we did it over the course of 5 days. It could be a great one for a long rainy day or for splitting up over a week like we did. 

Most supplies can be purchased at a Dollar Store, Michaels Craft  Store or other art and craft store

Pictures for each step are below. Have fun and make sure to share pictures with us if you try it! We'd also love to hear any changes or additions you think of, leave a comment so everyone can benefit.

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DAY ONE - Creating Fairy Gardens/Playground

A place for fairies to play, hide and play with their garden bug friends. We also love to find places to have tea at the Toadstool table and smell the colourful flowers.

You need:

-white or green round floral foam or Styrofoam disc
-green &/or brown moss
-White glue
-Ribbon
-Straight pins
-Small twigs or branches, pieces of bark
-Green fabric leaves on stems

 Steps:

1.     Pour carefully the white glue over the disc as it is lying on a flat surface

2.     Gently press on the moss to cover the disc (this is the base for the garden)

3.     Stick into the disc the sticks, leaves and bark

4.     Wrap the ribbon around the edge of the disc and secure with straight pins to make it look finished.  Look for green ribbon to add to the garden look or sparkly ribbon for fairies.  

DAY TWO –Making Tissue Paper Flowers and Bumble Bees

You need:

Flowers:
-pipe cleaners - green
- Small beads (pony beads)
-tissue paper circles

Bumble Bee: yellow model magic (or white that you colour later) or plastercine& black pipe cleaner

Steps:

Flowers

1. Cut the green pipe cleaners in half
   
   
2. Push the end of the pipe cleaner through the center of the tissue paper
   
   
3. Fold and gather the tissue paper up and around the tip of the pipe cleaner
   
   
4. From the bottom, slide the pony bead up to meet the tissue paper and gently slide it over the edge to hold it in place.
   

Bumble Bee:

1. With a small amount of model magic or plastercine create/shape a bumble bee
   
   
2. With 2 small pieces of black pipe cleaners make an oval shape to create the wings and insert on each side of the bee.
   

Add the flowers to the Fairy Garden base by sticking the pipe cleaner in to form.  Let the bumble bee sit in the Garden.

DAY THREE– Making Toadstools

You Need:

-Small wooden shape bead
-Small pieces of brown pipe cleaner (any colour will do)
-Plastercine – orange or red
-Sticky dots – yellow or green

Steps:

1. Hot glue the small pieces of pipe cleaner into the bead to make a base.
   
   
2. Shape the plastercine into a round, curved shape for the top of the toadstool.
   
   
3. Stick the sticky dots to the top (3-5 approximately) to complete the toadstool and add to the.
   
   
4. Fairy Garden base by sticking the pipe cleaner into to form
   
   

DAY FOUR – Clothes Peg Fairies

You Need:

-Wooden clothes pegs (old fashioned ones)
-Flower petals, variety for skirt, wings and hat
-Pretty Fabric tape
-Two sided tape (scrapbooking tape or cheaper double sided Scotch tape)
-Sharpie marker
-Hot glue gun

Steps:

1.     Draw two eyes and a mouth with the marker

2.     Put a strip of two sided tape around the middle

3.     Arrange the flower petals around the middle of clothes peg to make a skirt.  May need to add more tape and make layers.

4.     Put a strip of fabric tape around top of flower petals to secure and two make it look like her top.

5.     Hot glue two flower petals on the back for wings (may want to glue them together to make the  wing shape  first and then attach to clothes peg.

6.     Find a daisy shape flower and hot glue to head for her hat.

DAY FIVE – Plastercine Bugs

You need:

Plastercine – a variety of colours to create bugs to add to your garden.

Spiders
Lady Bugs
Snails
Butterflies
Caterpillars
Worms