Wooden Fairy House

Making fairy houses is a fun way to be creative with timber, and collecting materials is a great reason to go out for a walk and say "Hi" and "Thank you" to the trees around you.

Lots of assorted dry sticks, Wood glue, String, Hand saw, Pincers, Scissors

• Cut 6 thicker sticks to approx 150mm or half a foot, these will be wall supports
• Split them lengthways
• Cut lots of sticks to approx 200mm or 8 inches
• Glue these to the wall supports

• Glue and tie the three wall panels together
• There will need to be a stick across the front to create the 4th wall and to tie the house together.

I like to play around with the natural shapes of the sticks and create door openings on the 4th wall.

For this house, I have been inspired by a forked stick, so I'm going to make a door to fit it.

• Find two sticks that fork out, this will be the end for the frame of your roof
• Glue and tie one on each end of a stick the same length as the walls or longer
• When they dry, glue and tie the roof frame to your house
• Glue some leaves along some sticks to make roof covers

This door has been fun and you can do similar or totally different, I would love to see what you create in the comments!

There is no right or wrong, there is just "do you like it or not?", enjoy the process.