Fairy Garden

Have the little ones come in their fairy best (leotards and a pretty pastel coloured dress if they have it).

If the child has taken a ballet class then they have a tutu lying around... if they come dressed in a tutu - even better.

Dress in costume yourself and let them know that you are the "Fairy Godmother" and they must listen carefully to you.

You can have a "fancy fairy" station where the children can put on make-up and glitter hair spray (if they are allowed), stick-on earrings are fun (and you don't have to limit it to sticking them on their earlobes!)

Fairy Head Garland

All the elements of a fairy costume can  Fairy garden be bought or made. The head garland can be made from artificial flowers/ivy and by breaking up some leis (that you have left over from your luau party). Hot glue/twist tie these to a length of floral wire or connected pipe cleaners.

Fairy Wings

The wings can be made from wire hangers (use the thinner plastic coated ones that are more pliable and attractive than the stiffer more basic metal ones). Cover the wire hangers with nylon hose in pretty pastel colours and secure. Secure the two hangers together in the center securely using duct tape. Cover the area where the hangers are joined with some tulle or decoration. Then attach two loops of sewing elastic in the center (so that the loops can be slid up the arm and worn where the arm and shoulder meet). You can decorate the wings any way you choose (although it is often easier to decorate the wing material before sliding it onto the wire hanger forms).

Wings can be made more simply be bunching up a length of tulle and securing it in the center and then adding the elastic loops for wearing.

Fairy Wands

These can be made from edible ingredients: a star-shaped cookie and a pretzel rod, decorating the wands can be a fun (and tasty) activity if the pixie magic is edible: coloured sanding sugars, sprinkles, drages, M & M's or jelly beans secured with royal icing.

Wands can be made from a star (made of foam,cardboard or wood) with a dowel or natural stick. A wand not to be eaten can be decorated with rhinestones, glitter, puffy fabric paint (the gold fabric paint is especially good as it gives the appearance of the jewels being set in gold... although it takes eternity to dry!)

Fairy Party Decorations

Outdoors

If you hold the party outdoors you can decorate the garden a bit. For fun you can put faces on the trees (nail a few eyes/noses/mouths) to the trees in your backyard.

You can put food items (perhaps wrapped for sanitary purposes) on skewers and stick them all over the garden. This way the fairies can gather their own food in the fairy garden (as good hard-working fairies should!)

If you haven't tended you garden for awhile you could do fix your garden with the party in mind by mowing only part of the grass in a funny pattern (so half the grass is high and the other is not), you can fix it after the party.

Borrow as many garden gnomes/garden mushrooms as you can and display them around, hang hershey's kisses and wrapped candies, dress up all those Barbies that you have lying around and hang them from the trees by fishing line and add some christmas decorations and lights too.