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With some windy and wet weather keeping little ones cooped up inside this winter, here’s some fairy fun to help keep them entertained. 

You will need a pinecone, coloured felt (or card), cotton wool, an old pair of tights, glue, colourful wool…and of course, glitter to create your very own winter fairy!

Step-by-step guide to making a pinecone winter fairy.

1. To make the head: Stuff 3 cotton wool balls into a pair of natural colour tights and tie a knot then cut away the excess. Draw the eyes, nose, and mouth with a felt tip pen.
2. To make the hair: Draw a fairy face and cut 10x10cm pieces of colourful wool, and tie together in the middle to create your fairy’s wavy locks.
3. To make the wings: Cut a pair of fairy wings out of coloured felt and sprinkle with glitter.
4. Glue the hair to the top of the head. Glue the head to the top of the pinecone (the pointy end) and glue the wings to the back of the pinecone.
5. Sprinkle some more glitter on top and your winter fairy is complete!

We'd love for you to share your kids’ creations on Instagram using the hashtag #myweefairydoor or tagging @myweefairydoor

The change of season is well and truly upon us! Our days of sunshine are a little shorter, and our skies a little chillier…so naturally it is the perfect time to throw a fairy garden party…inside the warmth of your home of course!

Because even though the outside may be out of bounds on stormy days, your child’s imagination is not!  They may transport their fairies to magical kingdoms with flowers, wild mushrooms and little creatures…or perhaps a picturesque flower garden!

Bring the sunshine, flowers, and magic indoors with our fairy garden range – adorable accessories for your little love to create a delightful fairy garden. Think perfectly manicured grass glade, white picket fence, colourful daisies, magical toadstools, hedgehogs, bunnies, ladybugs and of course, a sprinkle of magic fairy dust to help the flowers and garden creatures come alive at night!

Never one to shy away from arts and crafts! Get out the glue pot these school holidays, snip some colourful card (beautifully patterned origami paper is even better!) into pretty flower shapes, use pipe cleaners for stems, stick on some google eyes, douse in glitter/pompoms/whatever's in the crafts box..and you've got a fairy garden wonderland the littlies will be proud of!