One of the great things about children is their imagination. How stones become treasure, dandelion clocks are fairy wishes and every rainbow has a pot of cold at the end. So we decided to make some craft stick fairy doors to welcome the fairies in to our garden this summer.
We are back sharing another way to make simple everyday objects into something extraordinary, using nothing but our imagination with the Fab Lollies Sprinkles of Imagination campaign. These super simple craft stick fairy doors would also be great to add to a room for the tooth fairy!
How to make craft stick fairy doors
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Materials:
- Lolly sticks or pre coloured craft sticks
- Duct Tape
- Glue
- Buttons
- Paint (optional)
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With your kids, line up your craft sticks to measure out your door. As you can see we made our doors in two different styles, but you could make your door as wide or as narrow as you want. We used duct tape on the rear of the craft sticks to make the door rather than gluing them together, this way is much faster and also simpler for children.
Help your kids by cutting your craft sticks to go across the door. (NB, this is a step for an adult*). We used a craft knife, but you could use a small handheld saw or even garden shears, and stick to them to front of the door with wood glue*.
Paint your sticks if you want, using food colouring.*
We raided our button tin to find some buttons to use as door handles for our fairy doors.
Put your fairy doors around your garden to welcome the fairies.
Or you could pop them in your house, especially when the tooth fairy needs to visit.
* Please be aware that we do not advise children to put dyed lolly sticks in their mouths. Please ensure parental supervision before using any sharp objects or wood glue
These are so sweet and they look fun and simple to make, too. Thanks for sharing, will give it a go!
Such a neat idea and so simple to make. I love the bright colours of your doors.
Oh these are super cute. I can just see us decorating out trees in the garden with these. I best start saving all our sticks!
They are so adorable. Wish I had a garden to put these in. If I put them in a room in our flat the dog will think they are for eating haha
Oh these are lovely! What a great idea. Does it mean I get to eat lots of lollies? 🙂
Ooh these are beyond cute! I might even make some for myself x
This is a very budget friendly way to get one of those fairy doors that are out at the moment! Great idea!
I love these what a lovely idea and they look amazing. I love the idea of fairy doors and they look such fun to make x
Eliza loves fairies and I have wanted to get her a fairy door for a while – now we can make one
What a wonderful idea! These look great, and I especially like the natural ones.
These are great, must look at creating these with the kids xx
Oh I love them, they look great and so simple to make too. Thanks for sharing.
Ooh I love these, so simple and cute and yet magical 🙂
These are super cute and I love the bright colours. We love fairy doors!
What a fantastically simple idea, I love it!