EASY Kid Craft: Pipe Cleaner Flower Fairies

The girls and I loved these
pipe cleaner flower fairies

when we saw them in Family Fun Magazine. 

I completely forgot about them until "C" and I were

playing in her new Autumn sensory box and 

we decided we needed some
fall fairy friends

to live in it.
(I'll post her box soon!)

I told her we could use some of the 

fall silk leaves

to make fairy skirts. 

(I think another bloggy friend

made these  or something similar

recently but I can't remember who!)

This was our first little fall fairy.

I wasn't too happy with her face

but we couldn't take it off

once we'd made the whole fairy. 

(sorry, she's a bit out of focus)

This was our second fall fairy

and I thought her face 

was creepy! 

The sharpie marker bled on the 

grain of the wood and made

her eyelashes dark and gave her eyes

a sinister quality...

maybe she's the fall witch!

 Third attempt....

Then, we had to make a Rapunzel Fairy

with LOTS of long hair!

Fourth Fairy... Mommy made a little 

Yellow and Blue Daffodil Fairy...

that's more like it. 

 Here's the Crazy Artist Fairy
with Rainbow Hair! 

Big sister "E" got home from school
and got right to work
making fairies with us. 
I love this blue one she made (the one on the right)
and she made the sweet pink one for her little sister "C"

  "C" loved her pink fairy
with Pink Rainbow Hair!!

So here's how to make your own...

(if we can do it so can you!)

These would be a great 

birthday party activity,

scouts craft,

rainy day/sick day activity....

Ingredients:

1. Start with one pipe cleaner bent in half
for the main body and legs.

2. Then, HALF of a pipe cleaner to be the arms.
You can use one color of pipe cleaner
or mix and match.

3. You'll need some yarn for the hair
(or embroidery floss).

4. Wooden bead for the head.

5. Three more little beads
(pony bead or wooden)
2 will be the "shirt"
1 will be the "undies".

6. Silk flower petals for the skirt.
(from a disassembled flower)
or silk leaves 
(just cut a small slit in the center)

7. Sharpies to add face details
(be careful with the wood grain!)

Bend the big pipe cleaner
over the yarn hair
and give it one small twist/pinch.

Thread on the bigger wooden
bead as the head
(so the hair is coming out like
a big crazy yarn sprout!)

Twist the "half" pipe cleaner
around the body to make some arms.

Now, bend the "arms" in toward the body
and twist so the hands are two
little hoops.

Slide on the two "shirt" beads. 

Now, thread on the "skirt" flower petals,
add one more pony bead as "undies"

Finally, bend the two legs back up toward the body
and twist to create little "hoop" feet
(like the hands)

Draw on a little face with sharpies
and you're ready to play! 

Happy Fairy Friend Making!

fondly,
pink and green mama