Winter Sumac Fairy Craft for Kids

On a recent winter wonderland walk we spied some lovely bright red sumac berries. We gathered them up and dreamt up the creative possibilities as we continued on our walk.

When we arrived home, we brought out our collection of nature crafting supplies and played with everything until inspiration hit — sumac fairies! They crafted up quick and cute, and brought some wonderful fairy play along with them.

Here's what you'll need:

• sumac berry cluster
• two milkweed pods
• an acorn and acorn cap
• glue
• glue gun
• glitter
• paint brush
• scissors

How it's made

Bundle up and head on out into the great outdoors to gather. Have your kids keep their eyes peeled for the red sumac berry bushes and milkweed pods peeking above the snow. You may even find other treasures from nature to add to your fairy.

Once you are home and all warmed up, you are ready to bring your fairy to life!

Begin by allowing your child to cut the milkweed pods down the centre until they reach almost the end of the pod. This will be the fairy's wings.

Now for the fun — and messy — part: glitter and glue!

Have them paint the inside of the pods with glue and then shake on the glitter.

While they are busy with glue and glitter, you can fire up the glue gun.

Once it is hot, glue the acorn to the sumac berry cluster to create the fairy's head.

For the fairy's hat, you can glue little sumac berries around the acorn cap and then glue the cap to the acorn.

Next, glue on the milkweed pod wings.

To make the fairy easier to play with, I recommend gluing it to a twig. It then becomes more durable and quite the fun fairy wand!

Allow the glue to fully dry and then let your child's imagination run wild into the world of fairies.