*Silvermist's Dewdrop Braclets*
It will take you 30 minutes or less to make this craft.
What you'll need
- Clear plastic beads
- Jewelry eye pins (look in the bead aisle of the craft store)
- Clear faux gems
- Hot glue gun or glue dots
- Beading elastic
How to make it
- For each bracelet, first make the dewdrop. Thread a bead onto an eye pin. Then bend the pin stem to form a U-shape and use glue or glue dots to attach it to the back of a faux gem.
- Top the first gem with another gem, sandwiching the pin stem between them.
- Thread beads and the gem dewdrop onto a length of beading elastic until you have a bracelet that's the right size to fit around a child's wrist. Then tie the elastic ends together with an overhand knot, and apply a drop of glue to hold it if necessary. Trim the elastic ends about an inch from the knot and thread them back through the adjacent beads.
Being a water fairy, Silvermist is adept at putting dewdrops on spider webs. But, despite her best efforts, she just couldn't seem to help Tinker Bell get the knack of it. Luckily, these sparkly bracelets are a cinch for novice fairies to string, especially if you make the faux gem dewdrops beforehand. Guests can wear their bracelets during the party and then take them home as favors
Haunted Fairy Cottage
What you'll need
- Foam craft pumpkin (sold in craft stores during Halloween season)
- Pencil
- Lightweight scrapbook paper (yellow for the window panes, white for the ghosts, and other colors of your choosing for the window trim, door, and door hinges and latch)
- Mod Podge (water base sealer)
- Paintbrush or small foam brush
- Silk leaves and/or ferns (sold in craft and department stores)
- Glue dots
- Thin flexible craft wire
- Black permanent marker
- Small stick
- Stones and floral moss (optional)
How to make it
Set the pumpkin on its side and lightly pencil the outline of a circular door around the stem (make the line about 1 1/4 inch from the outer edge of the stem). Cut a bunch of 1 1/2-inch squares from the scrapbook paper you've chosen for the door. Trim the squares so the bottoms are slightly convex and the tops concave, and taper the sides a bit, as shown. Use the Mod Podge to glue the trimmed squares onto the pumpkin around the stem, overlapping them a bit. Cut out a pair of small paper hinges and a latch and glue them in place. Then seal the finished door with a light coat of Mod Podge. 
For each window, cut out a 2 1/2-inch square of yellow scrapbook paper and then round the top. Cut a matching shape from the window trim paper, and then cut it into the pieces shown. 
Save the horizontal strip and the arch and discard the remaining piece. Next, cut a pair of 1/4-inch trim strips from another piece of window trim paper and glue them onto the window, as shown, before attaching the two reserved trim pieces. - One at a time, coat the back of each window with Mod Podge and then press it firmly onto the pumpkin to the side of the door. Use your fingers to smooth the paper and make sure all the edges are well adhered. Seal the windows as you did the door. Then top the pumpkin cottage with a roof of silk leaves and/or ferns, using glue dots to hold the ensemble in place.
- Now it's time to haunt the cottage. For each ghost, cut two matching shapes out of white paper. Use a glue dot to stick the top of a short length of craft wire to one of the ghosts. Then draw eyes on the matching piece and press it down onto the first one, matching up all the edges.
- Station the ghosts around the cottage by tucking the wire ends under a leaf or behind a windowpane. You can even attach one to a yard sign fashioned out of a short stick or strip of wood and a small square of paper.
- For the finishing touches, you can set the haunted cottage atop a sheet of floral moss and stack a couple of stone steps below the door, if you like.
When you set up house in a pumpkin like some of the fairies in Pixie Hollow do, it doesn't take much to get into the spirit of Halloween. All you need do is round up a few ghostly guests to hover around the grounds. Using a foam craft pumpkin, you can make a tabletop replica of a phantom-filled fairy house to haunt your own home.
A Fairy Footbridge
What you'll need
- Template for A Fairy Footbridge
- Scissors
- Pencil
- Corrugated cardboard
- Craft knife
- Craft or scrapbook paper, stickers, or glitter glue
- Glue stick or glue dots
- Marker
- Toothpick
- Handful of buttons
How to make it
- Print and cut out the template. Trace the template onto corrugated cardboard, and cut out the tracin
- Use a craft knife (adults) to cut out the circles, as shown.
- Use the craft knife (again, adults only) to score the underside of the cardboard where indicated by the dotted lines on the template.
- Fold the bridge floor, as shown, bending it as necessary to form an arch.
- Glue the end of the floor in place. Then fold up the sides and glue them to the sides of the floor.
- Now your child can decorate the sides of the bridge with colored paper, stickers, or glitter glue.
- Cut out ten or so cardboard floor boards (roughly 2½ inches by ½ inch) and have your child glue them in place, as shown.
- To create a mini sign, print "Fairies Welcome" on a small cardboard rectangle. Insert a toothpick post through one of the corrugation channels in the sign. For a stand, stack a couple of buttons with the holes lined up. Apply a drop of glue to the bottom of the toothpick and insert it into the buttonholes.
- Now your child can set up her fairy bridge with a trail of buttons leading up and over it.
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