DIY Fairy Wands for Fairy Party

Hi everyone! 

Tonight you are going to learn how to make DIY fairy wands using things you can find around the house. 

Aren't they precious! So lets get down to making them. Here are a few things you will need.

• Fabric scraps (could be old clothing in a bind)
• Sticks from your yard
• Cardboard(in our case the end piece of a notebook)
• Printer or the ability to draw
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• Glitter (optional)

Step one is to find a template for the wand shaped. We used rounded edge stars. If you can draw this then awesome! More power to you! I however am to much of a perfectionist when it comes to crafting and could not settle with an uneven star. Here is our template. 

Please excuse the blurry photo. I had a 6 year old helping. Anyways you will want to print preview before you print to make sure the template is the right size. Once you have printed the right size go ahead and cut it out. You will want to cut out the inside of the star( flower or whatever you chose) So the black part from above. When you get the interior cut out you will trace it on to your cardboard, like below. 

Next step is to cut out each star. This is a ton easier with an x-acto knife. If you brave the scissors, don't say I didn't warn you. After you get them all cut you will trace the cardboard stars on to the fabric scraps, you will want double fabric squares to your cardboard pieces. So if you have 8 cardboard stars, you want 16 fabric stars. Here is ours. 

Now guess what?? We cut some more!! YAY! I promise you are done cutting after this. Ok so now you want to plug in your hot glue gun and warm that baby up. Now go search for some sticks. We spray painted ours but that's not necessary as fairies are from nature. Here are ours. 

Now that you have all your pieces cut and gathered. We assemble the wands. First you will put a dollop of glue on the lower end of your first star and connect the stem of the wand, like below. And repeat with all the others.

Next you are going to cover the cardboard with the fabric scraps. Just go around the edges of the cardboard star with glue then press the fabric on lightly. You may want to use a pop-sickle stick as the glue can burn you. Repeat on the other side. 

 Now you can decorate with jewels or glitter like we did in the first picture. Your wand is don. Now for the other 5 million......