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Spring Fairies
 Folklore
tells of tiny fairies that help flowers bloom in the spring, or make
their homes in giant blooms. Kids will have fun making their own
spring fairies to play with.
What You Will Need:
1. A large bag of different colored pipe cleaners
2. Fake flowers in colors that match the pipe cleaners (daisy-like
flowers or flowers with many petal layers work best)
3. Round wooden beads
4. Permanent marker in black and red
5. Scissors
6. Glue stick
7. Cross-stitch floss in colors to match the pipe cleaners and flowers
Directions: 1. Take some cross-stitch floss and
wrap it around four fingers about eight times.
2. Take it off of your fingers, and set aside.
3. Take a pipe cleaner in the same color as the cross-stitch floss and
bend it in half.
4. Put the cross-stitch floss in between the fold of the pipe cleaner
and make sure that there are even amounts of floss on each side of the
pipe cleaner.
5. Push the floss all the way up to the bend of the pipe cleaner.
6. Put the unfolded ends of the pipe cleaner through the hole of the
wooden ball.
7. Pull it all the way down until the pipe cleaner can’t be seen
through the top of the ball. This will be the fairies head and hair.
8. Cut the floss so that it looks like strands of hair.
9. Decide where the face will be, and glue the hair to the wooden ball
with the glue stick.
10. Take apart a flower that is the same color as the hair and pipe
cleaner.
11. Pull the pipe cleaner ends through the hole in the middle of the
flowers. This will be the fairies skirt so make sure that the flower
will be facing the right direction.
12. Next you will be making the arms. Do this by cutting about one
third off the end of another same colored pipe cleaner. Wrap the arms
around the fairy just below her head. Make sure the arms are facing
forward.
13. Now you will make the fairy’s wings. This is done by wrapping
another same colored pipe cleaner around the fairy’s body just below
her arms. Make sure you have an even amount on each end of the pipe
cleaner. Then shape them into wings.
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