TaDah Garden - Fairy Tree

Making the Fairy Tree

Most of the materials for the fairy tree will be things you have around the house.

* An empty oatmeal container (Grits, Corn Meal, or Pringles can, whatever you have that is close to empty.

* Facial Tissue

* White Glue (school glue is fine)

* Small bowl or empty glue bottle

* Paint (browns, dark grey,black)

* Poster Board 

* Dried Twigs

* Glue Gun

* Foliage, Paint Brush, Masking Tape (optional)

I'm always so anxious to start a new project that I usually forget to take initial pictures. Mix equal parts glue and water in a small bowl or an empty glue bottle. Apply a liberal amount of glue to the oatmeal box and lay a facial tissue on top of the glue. Dribble glue/water solution on top of the tissue while using your fingers or a paint brush to wrinkle the tissue. This is messy, messy work. Since most kids love digging in and getting messy this is a perfect job for your youthful "helper". It will take at least a day or more for the tree base to dry. Wait until it is dry and hard before you begin painting.

Since I knew I would want a door and a window, I cut them out before adding the tissue and glue. I saved the curved door cardboard to later reattach.

This is the beginning of the painting process. I painted the whole thing grey and dribbled in watered down brown. The paints began to bleed into one another so I left it to dry.

Front

The painting is complete. Forgot to take pictures again. The final color is a dark brown with streaks of watered down black and watered down maroon. The beauty of paint is you can keep adding colors until you get what you want.

Back

To make the roof, cut a circle out of poster board and cut a pie slice out of the circle. Close the gap left in the circle, glue the sides together and you have a cone. The cone was painted dark brown. The twigs and foliage were added with a glue gun. 

In an earlier post, I shared the steps for making stain glass. This was a practice piece just laying around. There will be lights in the finished Fairy Tree so I figured,"why not".

This is the original cardboard door. The shutters were made from craft sticks. I am always "color indecisive".  The door has been tan, bronze, maroon, red  and my final choice bright yellow. The door will swing into the tree house, so masking tape will be used as a hinge. The shutters will be attached with the glue gun.

I added a flower box made from craft sticks and cardboard. The flowers are made out of clay and colored paper punches.

Side View

Front View

A little froggy over the door and and the TaDah Fairy House is move in ready. 

Happy Mini-ing!