Our “cousin” is turning 7 and well we just wanted to make her something fun and I knew that she liked Tinker bell, we bought her a little tinker bell make up kit (because my girls love make up and I wanted to spread the joy) and well we wanted to add a little bit extra. So here is our fairy holder playmat and fairies.
I printed out this picture of the “major” fairies… no vidia because she’s mean. But there is Fawn, Rosetta, Silvermist, TInkerbell, and Iridessa. It would have been nice if I lined them up under their picture. I just used a thin sharpie for their faces and tried copying the outfits with cheap felt and hot glue.
The hair was a little bit tricy and I wish I took pictures along the way but it was late. elow is a picture of tinkerbell’s bun, it’s my favorite. Pretty much I’d cover the top and sides and the back in two or three different pieces.
I try to involve the girls as much as I can to instill a love of making presents instead of buying everything.. .but sometimes it comes back to haunt me. K said they look weird with no arms… really they need arms??? Well I found this amazing woman who makes lots of peg dolls, really beautiful artistic ones and some even with arms.. I can’t find the link to her blog, but I will – the small object also has amazing peg dolls that I like to droll over. So my husband got out the itty bitty drill bit and went to town on the bamboo skewers. I sanded them down, and they were all different sizes but I just went with it.
The arms move and everything. You drill a hole through each arm and the body and put a wire through to hold it. I tried to make it cute and curly, but I definitely should have had a larger gauge wire. To make the wings I just drew in sharpie on my laminator sheet and put some glue sick over it and glitter – honestly I just prayed that my stupidity wouldn’t ruin my laminator which I love… and thankfully it didn’t – totally works, just don’t use too much!
And here the ladies are individually. Even though Tinkerbell is probably my least favorite of the fairies, I think she came out the best out of them all… it’s all about the face and hair.
And here is the holder. I made it really quickly with felt and just sewed up the bottom for the holder spot and then sewed the green on and then after that I shamelessly just hot glued the other stuff on. Thankfully the birthday girl liked it!
It all rolls up with velcro – hot glued onto a ribbon.
