Holiday Crafts in Forest Fairy Crafts Books
Welcome to the season of making and giving. Our holiday decorations are filled with fairies and hand-sewn treasures that have become wonderful memories. Children love to make and give handcrafted treasures. And they can give to Mom or Dad or Grandma if you want to keep one (or two or three) in your own family.
With two books, we want to connect you with projects that speak to your heart. I’m sharing which projects are in which books so you can choose your favorites. Of course, you can have it all with both books :)
Angels in the Forest Fairy Crafts Book
Angel (with a dress or pants, image above)
Christmas Fairy (with a dress or pants)
Fairy Star (fairy doll with a star shape, also called star babies, image below)
Pocket Treasure Keepers (can be ornaments)
Magical Forest Fairy Crafts Through the Seasons
Winter Fairies (dress and pants)
Winter Gnome
Snowflake Ornament
Star or Tree Ornament
Star, flower, and snowflake ornaments in Magical Forest Fairy Crafts through the Seasons
Of course, any of the fairies, and most of the crafts sewn with felt, can become charming ornaments. Mix and match for an endless array of creative ideas. From our first book, Forest Fairy Crafts, you could make a Christmas Ninja or Mermaid. Simply choose colors that evoke the holiday season.
We also use projects included in other “seasons” in Magical Forest Fairy Crafts Through the Seasons for holiday-theme crafting. We’ve made the Lavender Mouse using red, white, and pink felt, then hanging them as an ornament (especially if they have a field trip to see the Nutcracker). We’ve used the heart and star shapes from the summer beanbag to make ornaments.
Christmas Fairies sewn by children from the Forest Fairy Crafts book
We often create gnomes as ornaments. One year I called them elves (inspired by the Polar Express) and we made an entire village of their homes with all the things they needed in the community. Which included a dance studio complete with disco ball :) I’m sure many became ornaments once they went home. See more of their creativity here: https://www.forestfairycrafts.com/journal/elf-houses.html
Gnome directions are in both Forest Fairy Crafts books
And you can lean into any of the holidays of the season. Choose Hanukkah colors or Kwanza colors to make decorations that connect with your family’s celebrations. One of the magical things about the Forest is that we encourage children (and you) to make crafts reflect you.
I encourage everyone to let a child create crafts with messy stitching, long stitches, or random stitches. Soon enough, those exuberant sewing styles become tidy. As long as the project isn’t scrunched into a little ball (and maybe even then you can hang the scrunched up version on a tree), they become tokens of the time. Kids love to see what they made :)
We hope that you enjoy choosing crafts that celebrate the season. We love to see what you create :)
Oh, and I’ve made many fairies to gift to children (or made baby mobiles) for the children in my world. I made this little family for my neice for her dollhouse. I’ve made St. Nicolas gnomes, 20 of them, for my son’s class to tuck into their “shoe” (not really a shoe, but a lesson about St. Nicholas celebrations). You can be the one having fun making little magical gifts. We met one lovely lady who made them for the tree at the local children’s wing of the hospital, and children got to take one home. How magical is that?
Enjoy your holiday crafting!
Fairy inspiration: https://www.forestfairycrafts.com/journal/child-made-fairies-for-christmas.html?rq=elves
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