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Take Home Tale Craft

POPSICLE STICK FAIRY RACERS

Design your own fairy, (or butterfly or ) using popsicle sticks, paper and straws. Then, race them against your friends to see which is the fastest!

Templates and Design by There’s Just One Mommy Materials Provided: Popsicle sticks Paper wing templates 2 straws (different widths)

Materials Needed: Markers, crayons or colored pencils Clear tape Scissors

Instructions: 1. Use permanent markers to decorate your popsicle sticks with faces and colorful clothing. Race your on a flat surface or table by 2. Decorate your fairy wings with crayons or blowing through the smaller straw! colored pencils. Once the wings are colored and cut out, use a looped piece of clear tape You can also design your own flying creatures to stick the wings to the fairy’s back. -- , butterflies, or something entirely new. Create and cut your own wings to make 3. Cut a 1 1/2 inch long piece from one of the any creature you want. wider drinking straws. Flatten one end of the straw and wrap tape around the straw and craft stick to secure it to the back of the fairy.

Famous Fairies Fairies feature in lots of folk tales, stories and - they aren’t called fairy tales for nothing.

Some of the most famous fairies in literature include of Prince Arthur’s court, the trio of fairies in , The from , and of course, Tinker Bell, the resident fairy of To make your fairy fly, stick one of the thinner Neverland in . drinking straws into the straw that is attached to your fairy, lay the fairy flat on the table, and Did You Know? Tinker Bell got her name blow! because she was, among other things, a tinker: someone who mended pots and kettles. Her Having trouble getting your fairy to fly? Make sure voice was also described as sounding, to the straw you are blowing into is only lightly stuck humans who could not understand her, like the into the attached straw. Also, check for leaks! sounds of a tinkling bell.