Footwear to Fairy House: Make a Simple Fairy with a Old Boot
This week at PlayDrMom it’s all about Fairies! A very exciting and magical event happening this Friday (September 20th) on the Autumnal Equinox …
The International Fairy Tea Party!
Today as part of the celebration, my four-year-old daughter, Honor, and I want to share how we took a boot that she outgrew and turned it into a special dwelling for a lucky little fairy.
It was super simple really … we started with paint because Honor assured me that this was a requirement. I’m sure how well the washable paint will do on a rubber boot placed outside after awhile … but there was really no changing this young artists mind on this step.
While she was painting I started creating the roof. A small sheet of craft foam folded in half turned out to be almost the perfect size for the top of the boot. I only trimmed it just a bit to fit. To make the effect of roof tiles I drew in lines with a Sharpie marker.
We also decided that the house definitely needed a door … Honor was insistent that it must be a REAL door that the fairies could open and close. So I took my Exacto knife and cut a door shape in the middle of one side of the boot. I used another color of craft foam an cut a door to fit the shape I cut in the boot. Then it was time to break out my trusty glue gun! We found a small button and glued it on the door for the door knob. I also used the glue gun to adhere the foam door on the boot in a way that it was open just a bit for the fairies to walk in.
The final touch was adding a “Welcome Fairies” sign above the door! And then the completed Fairy House was ready to place in our fairy garden (more on that later this week!)!
Laura Hutchison
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Love it! We have a fairy circle cut from old logs in one corner of the garden, but so far no fairies have moved in. We’ve added a wand made from a willow twig bent to a star shape, but they haven’t taken the hint yet, so we’re going to plant some nice flowers for them. I feel confident that not long after this a fairy door will “appear” in one of the logs, and then one of the five fairies (I’ve already bought them) will move in. Later, if we make a fairy house, one of her friends will move in too…. and so on!