Fairy Museum - Crafting With Natural Resources

We visited a fairy trail earlier in the Summer holidays that the children & I absolutely loved. Everything was made from natural resources and there was a small fairy museum that they spent ages in with their friends, looking at all the tiny fairy outfits made from leaves, petals & feathers.

I wanted to do a follow-up activity as they had enjoyed it so much, so when I spotted lots of geese feathers on the ground on a family day out at a National Trust property I gathered them up, along with various leaves and some petals from the floor of the Rose garden.

When we got home I laid out the resources along with pens, glue sticks & scissors. I wrote 'Ollie and Phoebe's Fairy Museum' at the top of two sheets of paper and drew a couple of figure outlines on each sheet for them to turn into fairies. I then left them to it, to see what they'd create.

They got straight to work and not only created wings, clothes, hair & facial features for the fairies, they also decided to name them & write some information about each one.

Next morning I came downstairs to find they were carrying on the activity of their own accord. They had decided to turn their bedroom into a fairy museum and were writing out information sheets, drawing more fairies and creating time lines of fairy history!

They loved cutting up the leaves & feathers to the size they needed - using different resources to craft with can really capture their interest & imagination.