Fairytale-themed Arts and Crafts Fun

Have lots of fun with these lovely fairytale-themed arts and crafts activities.

These crafts use basic and inexpensive materials, such as paper plates, toilet rolls, coloured paper, glue, pens and pencils.

Arts and crafts are a wonderful way for children to express themselves, create something unique, gain a sense of achievement and have creative fun!

They are also perfect the holidays, weekends and rainy day activities.

So, wishing you lots of fun making them, as well as going on some fairytale adventures!

Arts and crafts are a wonderful way for children to express themselves, create something unique, gain a sense of achievement and have creative fun! They are also perfect the holidays, weekends and rainy day activities.

Fairytale-themed Arts and Crafts Fun 1

Little Red Hen: Egg Box Hen Egg Cup

You will need:

• egg box
• marker
• scissors
• scraps of red and yellow card
• paint (I used white and brown)
• googly eyes (or make your own with paper and a black marker)
• glue
• feathers

Making Instructions:

1. Draw the hen egg cup shape on the egg box as shown and cut out. Neaten any rough edges. 
2. Draw hen beak on yellow card and hen comb on red card with a marker. Cut out. 
3. Paint the egg cup. Leave to dry. 
4. Glue on the hen comb, beak (folding it in half) and googly eyes.
5. Glue feathers to the back of the hen.
6. Enjoy your boiled egg breakfast! These egg cups also make wonderful planters too as you can see in the image.

Fairytale-themed Arts and Crafts Fun 2

Princess and the Pea: Pom Pom Peas

You will need:

• cardboard (a postal packet is perfect!)
• green wool
• scissors
• googly eyes
• glue
• paper plate
• green paint or pens
• stapler

Making Instructions:

1. To make the pompom template, draw a rectangle 15cm x 4cm on card. Draw a slit in the middle 9cm x 1cm as shown. Cut out.
2. Wrap the wool around the template.
3. Cut a 20cm-length piece of wool, thread it through the slit and tie firmly around the middle of the wrapped yarn.
4. Slide the tied wrapped yarn off the template and tie it again tightly to secure. Cut the looped ends.
5. Tidy up the pompom by trimming it. Glue on googly eyes.
6. To make a pea pod, paint (or colour) one or both sides of the paper plate. Leave to dry. Fold the plate in half. Staple the folded corners together along the edges about 2cm from the centre fold. This will allow the plate to remain folded but leaves an opening big enough to pop your pompom peas in. 

Fairytale-themed Arts and Crafts Fun 3

Jack and Jill: Paper Cup Pail

You will need:

• paper cup
• pipe cleaner
• coloured pens, pencils or crayons
• decorative bits eg sequins, buttons, stickers
• beads
• hole punch
• glue

Making Instructions:

1. Punch a hole in the top of each side of the paper cup for the handle. 
2. Have fun decorating your paper cup. 
3. Thread a pipe cleaner through one hole and twist back over itself to secure. Thread some beads on the pipe cleaner. 
4. Attach the other end of the pipe cleaner to the second punched hole and secure as before. 
5. Now fill your pail with lots of treasures!

Fairytale-themed Arts and Crafts Fun 4

Rumpelstiltskin: Yarn-Wrapped Letters

You will need:

• cardboard
• marker
• scissors
• paint
• yarn/wool
• sticky tape (optional)

Making Instructions:

1. Draw your letters on a sturdy piece of cardboard using a marker. Cut them out. 
2. Paint the cardboard letter. 
3. Cut lengths of yarn approximately 80cm long. To get started, tie the yarn around the shape and knot. When you’ve finished wrapping the yarn length, either tie the loose end around another yarn loop at the back or use sticky tape to secure. 
4. Continue wrapping yarn around until the letter is covered.
5. Cut a 30cm length of yarn. Thread it through several strands of wrapped yarn at the top of your letter. Tie the loose ends to form a loop. Use this loop to hang up the letter on your bedroom door!

Fairytale-themed Arts and Crafts Fun 5

The Giant Turnip: Paper Plate Vegetable Garden

You will need:

• paper plate
• card (back of a cereal packet is ideal)
• brown, blue, green, purple and white paint or felt pens/crayons
• paintbrush
• holepunch
• brown wool
• scissors
• sticky tape

Making Instructions:

1. Paint half of the paper plate blue and the other half brown.
2. Punch holes around the outer edge of the brown half. 
3. Cut several lengths of brown wool about 70-90cm long. Secure one end of the wool to the back of the plate with sticky tape. Wrap sticky tape (about 4cm) around the other end to make it easier to thread through the holes. 
4. Thread the wool through the holes. Once the length is finished, stick it to the back of the plate and repeat. 
5. Draw a turnip on the card as shown (about 15cm long) and cut out. Paint or colour in. I used green for the turnip leaves and purple and white stripes for the turnip. 

Fairytale-themed Arts and Crafts Fun 6

Dick Whittington: Card Cat Bookmark

You will need:

• white or coloured card
• scraps of coloured card
• scissors
• glue
• black marker
• googly eyes
• hole punch

Making Instructions:

1. Draw a rectangle 5cm x 18cm on card. Draw ear shapes at the top as shown. Draw another rectangle for the cat’s tummy 13.5cm x 4cm on a different colour of card. Cut both out.
2. Glue the tummy to the cat’s body 0.5cm from the lower edge.
3. Draw the paws as shown – 5cm wide. Cut out.
4. Glue the smaller set of paws to the bottom of the bookmark. 
5. Glue the top part of the upper paws to the bookmark along the top edge of the tummy, leaving the paws’ lower edge free. The paws make the flap for slotting the bookmark over the pages. 
6. Cut a thin strip of coloured card 5cm wide for the cat’s collar. Punch a hole in yellow card for the collar’s bell. Glue in place.
7. Glue a small triangle in pink card for the nose and googly eyes. Draw a mouth, whiskers and claws using the black marker. 

I really hope you have fun with these fairytale-inspired crafts.

For more fairytale-themed activities, have a look at my blog on 6 fairytale-themed arts & crafts activities, growing fairytale vegetables and fairytale-themed playdough.

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