Lenka Vodicka-Paredes - Forest Fairy Crafts: Enchanting Fairies & Felt Friends from Simple Supplies

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DEDICATION

For Anika, Ian, and Gwynna

With huge love

Thank you for sharing your mamas with the fairies.

We send twinkling thanks to everyone at the Nevada City School of the Arts. To all of our past, present, and future students, thank you for crafting little treasures with us! To the parents and grandparents, thank you for volunteering to help sew (sharp needles and all!). And to the talented staff, thank you for crafting together and supporting a handwork curriculum these past thirteen years. We love our magical community at NCSA, and we appreciate you so much!

Asia thanks her childrenMiranda, Trevyn, and Gwynnafor inspiring many projects, and her parents for supporting her creativity. She also sends gratitude to her spiritual family for believing in her, as well as heart-felt thanks to James for being wonderful.

Lenka is grateful to Anika and Ian for helping her sew fairy hats. She appreciates all of the inspiration and support from dear friendsJosie, Amy, Sonja, and Heidi. A sparkly thank you to her family for laughter and for letting her put fairies on wedding cakes! Monika, Theo, Will, Mila, Alexandria, Coltrane, Fiona, Gavin, Bob, Robert, Josh, Devin, Nicole, Paul, Heather, Jay, Jasper, Beth, Nora, Tom, Ineke, David, Lucas, Suzie, Dave, Steven, Noelle, Little Sonja, Dan, Nicole, Michael, Jane, Andrew, Lizzy, the Jansens in Missouri (and beyond), and Grandma, of coursethank you for all of the love! Lenka is forever grateful to Mom, Dad, and Giovanni.

Thank you to our lovely agent, Kathleen Rushall, for believing in our fairies. And to Amy and Cynthia and everyone at C&T Publishing for patience (especially at the end of the school year) and for creating this book with us.

Finally, to our online supporters and friendsthank you. We appreciate you.

Fairyland belongs to all of us. Now, away to the forest!

We are glad to see you!

We love to make fairies, and we want to share the fun with you. We invite you into our enchanted forest. Its a special place of imagination that is filled with fairies and magic creatures.

In this book, you will find more than 28 different projects to make. You can make fairiespretty ones, funny ones, and scary ones. You can even make super-easy tiny gnomes! Make them for each season of the year. Then keep them or give them as special gifts.

You can make Treasure Keepers, too. These treasures are made of felt. They have fun shapes, like moons or flowers. Some are animals, like cats and owls. You can use them to keep your fairies. Or you can keep any small, special things in them.

Making fairies will inspire you to look at the world around you. When you visit a garden or when you see autumn leaves, you will notice the colors that are beautiful together. As seasons change, you will want a snow fairy, then a flower fairy, and then a harvest fairy. Pull out your felt and create a new fairy that matches your mood.

You can also invite an adult to craft with you. Parents and other adults sometimes need a reason to slow down. These crafts give you good reasons to spend time together.

NOTE

Fairy projects should never be given to youngsters who put toys in their mouths. These toys can be a choking hazard. If you are giving a fairy gift to a baby or toddler, display it on a shelf or hang it from the ceiling until they are older.