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Pine Cone Nature Fairies

By Maureen Macmillan, Twig and Toadstool

Jun 1, 2015

These fairies are sure to delight the little folks in your life. 

Using Mother Nature as your craft cupboard, head outdoors to pick and gather all the bits and pieces you'll need to make these adorable little creatures!

You Will Need:

  • pine cones, any size
  • leaves
  • flowers and flower petals
  • wooden beads in variety of sizes (available at dollar stores and craft stores)
  • black paint
  • small paintbrush
  • glue gun and glue sticks or white craft glue

Instructions:

1. To begin, head outdoors and gather your supplies. You'll need leaves of various sizes and shapes, flower petals and pine cones.

Flowers, leaves and pinecones.

2. Take out your wooden beads and paint little faces on them. You could also use a fine-tipped permananet marker for this step.


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3. Use your glue gun to glue a wooden bead onto each pine cone. If you're using white craft glue, leave plenty of time for the glue to dry. 

4. Now for the fun part! Start creating.

To make hats, we turned our flowers upside down and glued them onto the wooden bead heads. A dab of glue on the end of each leaf and you can create little wings, or you could take a few big leaves and wrap them around the pine cone like a cape. Experiment and have fun with this. 

A glue gun and four almost-complete pinecone nature fairies.

Here's one of our finished fairies close up. 

One complete pinecone nature fairy.

Take your fairies outside to the garden or sandbox for hours and hours of fairy fun!

Article Author Maureen Macmillan
Maureen Macmillan

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Maureen Macmillan is one half of the blog Twig and Toadstool. The blog is primarily a natural based craft blog that she created with the help of her friend Shanti. They create beautiful crafts made out of natural and beautiful materials, things that are inspired by Mother Nature, embellished with glitter, whimsy and imagination! Maureen is a mother of two beautiful girls, ages five and 10, and she feels fortunate enough to live in a part of Eastern Ontario where she is surrounded by the beauty of the natural world and part of a community of parents who encourage creativity and JOY!