Wait, don't throw that container out! Empty plastic bottles such as toothpick containers, rounded makeup containers, and aspirin bottles are perfect for making tiny fairy houses.
Materials:
*Empty plastic container (e.g. toothpick holder)
*Toothpicks
*Gold seed bead
*Lots of teeny pebbles
*All purpose adhesive
*Brown paint
*Gray paint
*Red paint
*White paint
*Paintbrush
*Clay
Directions:
*Paint the container gray. This way, if you end up with small gaps between rocks that are hard to fill in, it will look like there is grout or cement or something similar between the rocks.
*Snip the ends off of three toothpicks and then cut each toothpick in half. Paint five or six of these toothpick halves brown and set aside to dry.
*Once dry, glue on the painted toothpicks to form a door.
*Glue a gold seed bead onto the toothpicks for a doorknob.
*Glue rocks onto the container, filling in as much of the space as you can.
*Craft a mushroom shaped roof from clay. Bake or dry following the directions given on the packaging.
*Paint the roof red and then let dry. Once dry. paint on white spots. Set aside to dry.
This is what the two pieces looked like before I glued them together. The mushroom roof really does add to the fairy house's aesthetic.
*Once the roof is completely dry, glue it to the top of the container.
*To make an owl fairy inhabitant, punch two butterfly shapes from cardstock and glue to the back of the bead such that one wing sticks out on either side of the owl bead.
