How to Make Egg Carton Fairies
Create your own whimsical egg carton fairies with this fun and easy craft! Kids and adults will love recycling materials into adorable little characters.
Yield: 1 egg carton fairy
Cost: $1
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Materials
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Make the fairy's dress
- Cut one "cone" shaped section from an egg carton.
- Trim the edges to make a neat looking dress for the fairy.
- Paint the egg carton section with acrylic paint in whatever colour you'd like the fairy's dress to be. Allow to dry.
Step 3: Make the head
- Fold a skin tone pipe cleaner in half and separate the ends to make a "V" shape.
- Cut 18 strands of yarn so each piece is 6 inches long. Line the ends up and place them in a pile.
- Place the center of the yarn bundle in-between the center fold of the pipe cleaners. Pull the yarn ends up and twist the pipe cleaner together several times below the bundle, keeping it in place.
- Slide the wooden bead onto both pipe cleaner ends and pull it to the top, so the yarn looks like hair coming from the bead head.
Step 4: Create the body
- Cut another pipe cleaner in half and fold one of these pieces in half.
- Place the center fold of the pipe cleaner between the pipe cleaners coming down from the bead.
- Twist the longer pipe cleaners around it several times, creating the arms and legs of the fairy.
Step 5: Attach the fairy's dress
- Poke a hole in the small top part of the painted egg carton section (if it doesn't have one already).Slide the fairy's pipe cleaner legs down through the hole. This creates the fairy's dress.
- Bend the pipe cleaner arms and legs however you'd like them. Fold the edges of the pipe cleaners over to make hands and feet.
Step 6: Add a face
- Add a dot of white school glue to the front of the wooden bead. Spread the glue with your finger or a paint brush to create a very thin layer of glue across the bead. (Once the glue is dry, this allows you to draw a face on the wood without the marker bleeding.)
- Once the glue is dry, use a fine point black marker to draw a face on your fairy. We made eyes with little eyelashes and a small smile.Then use a pink marker to add rosy cheeks.
Step 7: Create fairy wings
- Print and cut our free egg carton fairies template (find the link in the materials list above).
- Use the template to cut wings from glitter cardstock or craft foam.
- Bend the wings slightly and add a thin line of hot glue to the center of them. Attach the wings to the center back of the egg carton dress.
- Your egg carton fairy is complete!
- Be sure to make your fairy some friends to keep her company!
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