Here is a acrostic poem about forests

Forests

Forests are everywhere giving us oxygen.

Oh, trees are so beautiful in the fall.

Roaring winds shake the leaves in the trees.

Eagles soaring high in the sky!

So many wild animals live here!

Tall trees everywhere!

Cupcakes

Dragonfly Cupcakes

What you'll need

• Batch of cupcakes
• White frosting
• Blue Sour Punch Straws
• Brown M&M's candies
• Swedish Fish, red and/or orange

How to make it

1. Frost the cupcakes.
2. Cut the Sour Punch Straws into 2-inch lengths and place one length atop each cupcake for the dragonfly bodies. Press the front of each body a bit deeper into the frosting than the tail end.
3. Place an M&Ms candy at the head of each dragonfly body.
4. Arrange four Swedish Fish candies behind each dragonfly head to resemble two sets of wings.

http://spoonful.com/recipes/dragonfly-cupcakes

Enjoy!!!

Button Cookies

Button Cookies

In a fairy's world, buttons are used for all sorts of things, such as tabletops, pot lids, dishes, trail markers ... the list goes on. Here's a fun treat that celebrates the versatility of this nifty notion -- a colorful batch of button cookies.

What you'll need

• Batch of sugar cookie dough (homemade or store bought)
• Food coloring
• Plastic kitchen gloves (for kneading food coloring into the dough)
• Rolling pin
• Flour
• Wax paper
• Small round cookie or fondant cutters (about 2 1/4 inches wide)
• Small bottle cap (slightly smaller than the fondant cutter)
• Wooden kitchen skewer
• Spatula
• Baking sheet
• Wire rack

How to make it

1. Divide the dough into thirds or quarters. Then knead a different shade of food coloring into each portion of dough. Chill the dough so that it will be stiff enough to hold its shape while baking.
2. When you're ready to start baking, work with one color of dough at a time. Roll the dough out to about a 1/4-inch thickness and use the cookie or fondant cutter to cut out a bunch of small circles. If you like, use a small bottle cap to gently imprint an inner circle on some or all of the buttons.
3. Use the blunt end of the kitchen skewer to make a set of two or four buttonholes in the center of each cookie.
4. Place the cookies on a baking sheet and bake them according to the recipe directions. Transfer the baked cookies to a wire rack to cool before serving. Enjoy!

http://spoonful.com/recipes/button-cookies

Tinker Bell's Fairy Wings

Here is a fliterific recipe!

Tinker Bell's Fairy Wings

What you'll need

• Template for Tinker Bell Wings Cake
• White or yellow cake baked in 9- by 13-inch pan
• Frosting (white for the cake top and green for the sides)*
• Green sugar pearls (found in the baking aisle of the grocery or craft store) or other small green candies
• Icing roses or other flowers (found in the baking aisle of the grocery or craft store)
• Green decorating icing with leaf tip (optional)
• * Note: Homemade frosting or decorating frosting works best for this cake. Most readymade creamy varieties will not harden and therefore aren't effective in sealing in the crumbs along the cut edges of the cake. If you prefer readymade frosting, you can t
• Scissors
• Tape
• Spatula or knife for frosting the cake
• Kitchen knife

How to make it

1. Using the serrated kitchen knife (a bread knife works well for this), level the cake by carefully slicing off the domed portion of the top. Then place the cake, cut side down, onto a wax paper-covered piece of cardboard.
2. Print the template. Cut out the pieces and tape them together, as shown, so that they overlap just slightly. Place the completed template atop the cake and use a kitchen knife to cut through the cake along the paper edge, as shown.
3. Spread an initial coat of frosting, just thick enough to seal in the crumbs, on the two assembled cake pieces. Chill the cake for 30 minutes to harden the frosting.
4. Carefully lift the wax paper on both sides of the cake and transfer it to a cake board or large serving tray. With the wax paper still in place, spread on a second coat of frosting and smooth the surface with your spatula. Use a damp paper towel to carefully wipe any excess frosting and crumbs from the wax paper around the perimeter of the cake. Then you can trim the paper close to the cake edge, if you like.
5. Now you can decorate the cake top with icing roses, piped-on leaves, and pretty sugar pearl swirls.

http://spoonful.com/recipes/tinker-bells-fairy-wings-cake



Halloween Crafts

Witches hats

This bewitching witch's hat makes a great table decoration for your Halloween party.

What you'll need

• 2 sheets of black construction paper
• 1 sheet felt (green, orange, purple, or red)
• Strip of black felt
• White craft glue
• Scissors
• Tape

Buy construction paper at the dollar store for plenty of fun projects. Felt is inexpensive so stock up on 5 or 6 sheets each time you go to the store. Traditional Halloween colors include black, orange, purple, red and green. However, you can use whatever colors you like for this project!

How to make it

1. Roll 1 sheet of black paper into a cone. Secure with tape.  
2. Trim the bottom of the cone so that it will stand up on the table.  
3. Use a cup or jar as a guide and cut out a circle from black paper large enough for the hat brim.  
4. Glue the cone to the circle and set aside to dry.  
5. Cut ¼” or ½” strips of felt and glue them around the cone.  
6. Cut a strip of black felt to go around the base of the cone.  
7. If you like, cut a bat out of black felt and glue to your hat.

http://spoonful.com/crafts/witches-hats



Thanksgiving crafts

Do you want to know a craft for thanks giving??? Well here you go!

Turkey Fridge Magnet



You’ll be amazed at just how easy these cute turkeys are to make. If you prefer to skip the painting steps, be sure to check out the helpful tips at the end for simple substitutions.

What you'll need

• 3” wooden heart
• 1” wooden heart
• 1 ½” wooden football or oval
• 8-10 colorful feathers (red, brown, orange, yellow)
• 2 miniature craft sticks
• Acrylic craft paint: brown, red, yellow, white, black, orange
• Sponge applicator
• Small paint brush
• White craft glue
• Wax paper
• 2 magnets of medium weight

How to make it

1. Paint the 3” wooden heart and the wooden football brown.  
2. Paint the 1” wooden heart red.  
3. Paint the 2 miniature craft sticks orange. Let all painted surfaces dry completely.  
4. Place brown heart on work surface so that the pointed end is at the top. Glue the red heart onto the brown heart. The red heart should also be upside down, point facing upward, and should overlap the tip of the brown heart a little.  
5. Glue the brown football (head) on top of the red heart, allowing the bumps of the heart to show underneath the football (chin).  
6. Position the orange craft sticks underneath the brown wooden heart and glue in place for the legs.  
7. Place turkey on to a piece of wax paper. Arrange feathers behind the “turkey” to make its tail. When you have them where you want them, glue them in place and let dry. The wax paper will keep the glue for the feathers from sticking to the table.  
8. While feathers are drying, dip the handle end of the sponge applicator in to the white paint. Dot on eyes. Repeat this process with the handle end of the paint brush and black paint, adding the pupils.  
9. Use the paint brush and yellow paint to add a triangular beak.  
10. Allow everything to dry completely, then glue magnets to the back and let dry. 

http://spoonful.com/crafts/turkey-fridge-magnet

I hope you like it!!!

Faries

If you just love faries, like I do, then you'll enjoy these crafts!!!

*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

1. 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.
2. Top the first gem with another gem, sandwiching the pin stem between them.
3. 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

http://spoonful.com/crafts/silvermists-dewdrop-bracelets

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

1. 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.  
2. 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.  
3. 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.  
4. 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.  
5. 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.  
6. 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.  
7. 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.

http://spoonful.com/crafts/haunted-fairy-cottage

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

1. Print and cut out the template. Trace the template onto corrugated cardboard, and cut out the tracin
2. Use a craft knife (adults) to cut out the circles, as shown.
3. Use the craft knife (again, adults only) to score the underside of the cardboard where indicated by the dotted lines on the template.
4. Fold the bridge floor, as shown, bending it as necessary to form an arch.
5. Glue the end of the floor in place. Then fold up the sides and glue them to the sides of the floor.
6. Now your child can decorate the sides of the bridge with colored paper, stickers, or glitter glue.
7. Cut out ten or so cardboard floor boards (roughly 2½ inches by ½ inch) and have your child glue them in place, as shown.
8. 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.
9. Now your child can set up her fairy bridge with a trail of buttons leading up and over it.

Inspired by the little footbridge that leads Tinker Bell to the fairy house Lizzy builds in Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue, this arched walkway is just the prop to welcome kids into the delightful world of sprites. Cutting out the circular openings and scoring fold lines in the cardboard is best done with a craft knife, making it a job for adults. But kids will have plenty of fun decorating the assembled bridge, constructing the welcome sign, and creating a trail of buttons.



http://spoonful.com/crafts/fairy-footbridge