Forest Fairy Crafts: Enchanting Fairies & Felt Friends From Simple Supplies • 28+ Projects To Create & Share Read Free Books and Download eBooks
•Make magical fairies, scary zombies, and cute gnomes with simple supplies and sewing skills•Learn easy crafting skills like hand sewing, finger knitting, sewing buttons and sequins, and using patterns•Have a fairy-crafting party! Projects are perfect for birthday parties, play dates, and afternoon playtimeWelcome to Fairyland! Inside this book, you'll find more than 28 projects that'll make the most of your imagination. Whether you want to make flower fairies, zombie sprites or forest gnomes, there's something in here to get you started! You can even craft a treasure pocket to hide all your creations in. Best of all, you'll learn new sewing skills that you can show off to your pals!
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: C&T Publishing / FunStitch Studio (June 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1607056909
ISBN-13: 978-1607056904
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 0.5 x 8.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #203,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #35 in Books > Children's Books > Activities, Crafts & Games > Crafts & Hobbies > Needlecrafts & Textile Crafts #177 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Crafts for Children #1716 in Books > Children's Books > Arts, Music & Photography
Age Range: 5 - 9 years
Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3
No kidding, this book shows you how to make all kinds of fairies from Angel fairies to Zombie fairies! A fairy for almost anyone! In addition to over 20 different fairies, you can also make over 10 different treasure/wish keepers.I really like this book as the designs are adorable and the directions are clear. The authors start off with a list of supplies that you will need and some basic sewing lessons. Next is a "Troubleshooting" page to help you figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. In addition, there is a "Notes to Parents" section which contains some very handy tips on dealing with children and crafting. Each project is labeled with a little "flower" to tell you if the project is "simple" or "tricky", etc.The book begins with directions on making a basic girl fairy. This basic body will be used to make many different fairies depending on how you style the hair, face, and clothing for each fairy. Lot's of really good ideas! The authors offer other body styles for fairies, as well as, a forest gnome. The treasure/wish keepers are great alternative projects.The pages of this book are quite durable and the only thing I would change is to give it a spiral binding to make it lay flat. In fact, I think I will go to Kinko's tomorrow and have one put on!This is a perfect book for parties, play dates, or even rainy days. I highly recommend it!
This gem of a book is not only pleasing to look at, it is also carefully detailed and well organized. The instructions are so well written that my 6 and 9 year olds and friends are completing the projects with minimal help. I love that the crafts are suitable for both girls and boys. Another thing we love is that all of the projects can be individualized to the crafter's taste. The gnomes, fairies, mermaids, etc. turn out very cute and hold up to play very well. Thank you, Lenka Vodicka-Paredes and Asia Curie, for sharing your secrets of the crafting trade in this awesome book--and for inspiring kids (and adults!) to craft.
This is such a well laid out book with step by step instructions. Having all the possible materials you will need to assemble up front is very helpful. The detailed description of the stitches necessary is so clear for the user. The practice face drawing is a wonderful idea. Many of the projects are very appealing for making with grandchildren and for friends. I look forward to many projects from this marvelous book.
We homeschool and each Friday we do art as our 'extra' subject, after our main lessons. Kids have always enjoyed art, but when I introduced this book to them and told them we were going to start making fairies, their love of art doubled, at least! For the last six weeks, we have been making a different kind of fairy from the book. We've started from the beginning with teaching the girls to do the basic sewing stitches shown in the book. This was excellent because I wanted to teach them to hand sew too. The girls are 6 & 8 and have caught on easily to sewing. Our six year old needs a bit of help making the fairy bodies, but otherwise, she's got everything else down pat! Our eight year old has it down pat. The crafts lend to any material you have on hand, which makes it nice when on a tight budges, such as we are. Each week the girls are anxiously anticipating our art day. The only problem is, how am I going to get them away from this eventually to introduce other forms of art? LOL Hey, if that's the problem, I'll take it!!! Highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to spend some fun time with your kids being creative. We do this as a family and even my husband and myself are addicted. We made some as gifts, but were so attached we decided to get them something else! LOL It's true, they become like little children, each with their own personality. TOOOOOO much FUN!! Thank you to the authors!
If you are a crafter and would like to pass on that passion to your grandchildren, then this is the book for you. The easy to follow instructions, the colorful illustrations, and the child-appealing projects make this book invaluable. There are 28 projects to choose from - simple fairies; special ones like the birthday fairy, a pirate, or mermaid; soft felt fairies; and pocket keepers and animal shaped pouches. What a fun activity to do with your grandchild while at the same time teaching them various sewing stitches, how to use patterns, add embelishments, and use glue, paint, etc. to enhance their projects.
The book would have been nice, the kindle edition came with lengthy downloads for patterns. Was very hard to navigate through. NEEDS to be a hard copy only, does not work as a kindle book.
My 8 and 11 year old grand daughters loved making the faeries with the felt scraps and they used their imaginations for the hair . Glitter , felt , pipe cleaners , embroider thread , buttons and a small hot glue gun . Wish I had bought some cloth flowers for them to deconstruct to use int the making of their fairies but with felt and scissors and a needle and thread they did fine . They required little supervision to make from the book fun items .
very sweet book! the projects are all cute and creative and easy for kids to follow. my 12-year old daughter loves it, she is old enough to make the dolls herself. my 5-year-old daughter also loves the dolls as well, but she needs my help to make them. this is fun for kids AND adults! there are fairies of all seasons and holidays and everything in between.
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