How To Make Flower Fairies

This is Misty coming to you from this mystical land we share with the fey! So, in the last post I mentioned flower fairies I made for the Craft Faire. I told you I would teach you to make them soon. (The next day is pretty soon, right?) So, I present to you, FLOWER FAERIES! Warning: These pictures do not represent all my faeries, I have many more.

Here is the first one, The Red Duchess! She's a lovely one.

Here is the second one, Marigold. (Yes, I did name them all)

Here is the third and last one, White Rose. I names her that because she has rose petals and white petals.

So there you have it, three of my faeries. If you want to know how to make them, keep reading. If not, leave now and continue on your journey through the tutorial, down to the fairy song I posted at the bottom. All right, here we go!

First, take some white pipe cleaners.

Then, grab some scissors.

Use the scissors to cut a small piece off a pipe cleaner.

Then, fold the bigger part in half. This may take a few tries your first time because it has to be even, and  it likes to spring back at you while you're folding it. How rude!

Next, fold up the ends a teeny bit for feet.

Then, take some silk flowers. I like to get them from Michael's, but you can use any kind, really.

Then, pull a big flower off the stem. This is easy to do, just grad the flower head, and pull.

Then, take it apart, piece by piece, until it looks like this.

Do the same thing with a rose, and take the little whatever-it-is out and put it on. Make sure you've got the folds pushed all the way together, or it won't go on.

Then, put a petal from the first flower on after that.

Then a petal from the rose.

This is when I usually flip the fairy over, and lengthen it's feet into legs. Just unfold the feet, and then fold them again, only a longer fold. This can be tricky, as the things you've put on will try to fall off. Don't get frustrated, they're just obeying gravity. (You can get mad a gravity, though. :))

After putting the rest of the petals on, take the small piece and make arms. Position it against the body where  it's even, and then twist the ends around to hold it on. This can also be tricky, as often the arms are hard to hold in place, or are uneven. In fact, this is probably the hardest step in the process.

If you wish, you can  put something in her hand, like this little torch that was in the center of the rose. 

 Next, take some white flowers and put them on on top of the arms. Then, take the thing that were holding the green (lily?) together, and put it on. 

Finally, put a wooden bead on as a head, and then  put on the thing that was holding the rose together on top as a hat. You're done! Remember, don't try to draw a face, because, whether or not the face is well drawn, it will make your fairy not as pretty and elegant. Many people have made this mistake, but if you really want to, then  you can go ahead a put a face on. Maybe it won't be so bad.

Well, that was fun. I hope you enjoy making faeries, and remember, They don't all have to look like this one. Now for the fairy song!

Dancing, dancing, round the tree,
Oh, how joyous we shall be,
As the branches swing,
We'll rise up and sing,
Dancing, Dancing, round the tree,
Oh, how joyous we shall be!

Fairy Tip: Faeries love to sing, so listen for it! Also, sing yourself, they love hearing you sing too!