Tinkerbell And The Pixie Hollow Games
Mauricette Atencio
All that was left to dothe next day was decorating it. I used some plastic vines and flowers from the Dollar Tree, and a load of random stuff like twigs and pebbles from outside. I also used some fake grass stuff that had been on mini tree place settings that our friends Pat and Victoria gave us after their wedding (Is this the fourth project we've used them in? Thanks guys!). I also made a couple of little toadstools from modelling clay, and a pond surrounded by some sand glued on from our sand box.
The water from the pond was made by putting a little bit of blue acrylic paint in some of the matt varnish and pouring it into an aluminium lined yoghurt pot lid to dry with a sprinkle of glitter. Once dry I pulled it out and cut it to shape to be glued on.
This is absolutely phenomenal! I have been thinking about this very project, but had NO IDEA how to execute it. All the fairy houses I have seen don't have openings. So weird. I am thinking that I am going to have DD build it with me and that will keep her occupied over Spring Break. Thank you for your always awesome instructions.
Loved what you said about the Disney princesses. Cracked me up. We are big Disney fans living her in SoCal, but I have always told my daughter that you can live happily ever after, as long as it's one day at a time with or without a prince.
Gorgeous!!! Thank you for the advice on baking salt dough. I never would have thought of that air pocket problem. We haven't seen this movie yet, but after your review I think we'll give it a go. Emma will be on cloud nine as she spent yesterday writing cards for us to give to Tinkerbell when we go to Disneyland (whenever that happens) instead of her birthday thank you notes.
I would love to hear more about the Tinkerbell movie--is this the newish one that came out last year?
I had specifically asked my mother-in-law NOT to get on that bandwagon because a spinoff "Pixie Hollow" book that my daughter has received as a gift was really irritating to me: the pixies were very mean, haughty, and vain. It reminded me of the Little Mermaid prequel movie that I also banned because it seemed the mermaids did little more than fuss over their appearance, act bratty, and talk about boys. That may be an accurate depiction of preteen behavior (ha!) but it's not what I want for my almost-5 year old.
Your Pixie Hollow is amazing!
Just gorgeous! Disney ought to be calling any moment now.
Hope the birthday girl and her sister enjoy your labor. (How could they not?!?)
Also, I LOVE your stovetop backdrop. Completely my style.
Thanks for the sweet words everyone!
Allyson: I'd love to see your fairy house if you and your daughter make one :) and it totally winds me up too that Disney assumes women can only be happy once they have found their "true love". They also seem to like teaching young girls that unless you're pretty then you're screwed. Boooo!
Amy:I was pleasantly surprised by the Tinkerbell Movie. Tinkerbell's friends in the movie are sweet and caring and helpful. There's only one mean haughty fairy in the plot, and she's the "bad guy" that has to fix all the trouble she's caused at the end. I just loved the fact that Tinkerbell is a "tinker fairy" and tinker fairies make things like tinkers, which is what me and my kids love to do anyway. Her job and her talent wasn't glamourous, but it proved to have great value to her friends and community, which was a message I liked.
"She's just a common fairy. She's called Tinkerbelle because she mends pots and kettles." We have been listening to a recorded version of Peter Pan, I love that line.
As always your creations are positively stupendous! I'm sure your girls are thrilled!
I hope you don't mind, but I linked your blog on one of my post's, saying that this blog is the insperation for mine, and why I started mine. I love you blog and all its great ideas! Thanks,
Tina
That is bloody brilliant! I have a 2 year old son, and am looking forward to many many 'craft sessions' with him... Bookmarking this as a "Star Wars" craft - would make a most excellent Degobah house of Yoda don't you think!? (Nothing against fairies mind you... we have them all over the flower garden.) Loving your blog!
Wow--that's incredibly impressive! My daughter also loves fairies, so this might have to be a project at some point.
Also, thanks for the notes on the Tinkerbell movie. I won't let my daughter watch Disney movies at home (I can't, unfortunately, keep her from them at daycare or grandma's) because I find them so offensive--I'd been avoiding Tinkerbell, assuming that it was more of the same. I might pick it up for Easter, now, as it sounds like it has a nice message for a change!
I wouldn't risk putting a salt dough structure like this outside where we are, because it's quite rainy at the moment and it wouldn't take long to go mouldy or disintegrate, even though I have a coat of varnish on it. Maybe if you live somewhere really really dry then it would be ok, but if you want a fairy house outside then it would be much easier to use stuff that's outside anyway, like letting the kids build it themselves from twigs and rocks etc at the bottom of a living tree. I guess you could try nibbling a doorway shape out of an upturned teracotta plant pot with a dremmel, if you don't have a tree or other suitable place to build one in your garden/yard. Fairy houses can be made from anything. Our fairies lived in plastic bottles with holes cut in them for a while. Those would be fine outside too.
Only because its been said so much in the opposite, I also wanted to add I LOVE Disney movies. I just also love the tinkerbell movies within them. I watched Disney movies as a kid and loved them, and I never had issues with not knowing the difference with reality or thinking oh my prince is going to save me. They are just fun and whimsical.
Tinkerbell is nice because the pixie hollow theme is that everyone has a special talent and should use it. Which i like since I'm a craft junky.
That is incredible! You are quite talented and have wonderful ideas! Ideas that I will be borrowing for a fairy tea party...
Mulan is a good one too, message wise. A girl who in attempt to save her father, works hard to be a good warrior, saving China and coincidentally finding love in the process.
WOW WOW WOW! That was amazing. LOVE this idea. Both our girls have December bdays and this would be a fabulous thing to make up for them this year (5 and 3). Thanks for this incredible idea and great tutorial. :)
This idea is so great! I just had to try it. My 3-year-old daughter is in love with fairies as well, and I thought this would be such a great project to do together.. Uh, whoops. Not so much.
I've discovered this is a wonderful project for moms to do and THEN present to their kiddos. My DD lost interest about 10 minutes into it, and there I was, an hour and a half later still working slappin' dough. ha! She had resorted to chasing the dog around the kitchen with a rolling pin..
I must say my first attempt was a bit lack luster. A sculptor I am not, and I made my creation a tad too big and ran out of dough. I used all the salt in the house so I couldn't make more!
However, I still think this is a FABULOUS idea and I'm not going to let my first attempt get me down! I'm saving my second attempt for a night my DD is at her grammy's.
Do you have any tips for working with aluminum foil other than smooshing the crap out of it? :)
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! Cheers!
Found your site through Crafty Crow. This is a wonderful idea! I have a 4 and 3 year old, both girls, and this morning we got to work building each of them a fairy home to go with their felt "land" playmats. Thank you so much for explaining the steps and sharing your ingenious ideas for a great project.
I'm just seeing this now but wanted to let you know that I think it turned out absolutely amazing! I was hoping to make something like this for my daughter for Christmas and you will definitely be my inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing!
Kimberly @ The Muddy Princess
Wow! What a wonderful idea! For those of you like me who have no earthly idea how to construct something like this out of aluminum foil, I used a paint can as a mold. Just wrap the foil around and scrunch it and build it up around the can as you go. Sorta. Haha! It's all trial and error but it came out looking pretty good!
hi
I absolutely love what u have done.. I tried n failed at the basic structure even ;-) (I m not an artist)
Hey can u help me with a "solar system" project that i think will help my daughter understand the solar system???