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Clay furniture is much easier to make but does not look as rustic.When the top has dried, cut four pieces to the same length and glue them underneath to form the table legs. When this has dried, lay twigs across the top and glue them to the frame. Cut four pieces and glue them together to form a rectangular frame that’s the size you want the tabletop to be. To make a table, for example, gather some dry twigs, both skinny and thick, from your backyard.If you want to add furniture, you can either use doll furniture or make your own: X Research source You can even add “wallpaper” made of dried leaves, leathers, or hand-made paper. Turn an upside-down teacup or saucer into a table and use acorn caps as bowls. Make a hammock from the fronds of a fern or a piece of stocking and add scraps of fabric for curtains. Cover the floors with sands, leaves, or moss to create soft padding. Press a few pebbles into the dirt leading up to the doorway to make a path of stepping-stones.Ĭreate an inside world for the fairies. Leave a hole where you want the door to be and add a hollow stick, reed, or piece of bamboos to make a chimney.

Press flat stones into the sides to create walls and add moss to the top to make a thatched roof.

If building an outdoor house, make the walls and roof of the fairy house and then cover the whole thing with dirt or mud to make a rounded hobbit-house.

(They should look like a square with overlapping corners.) Keep stacking them this way until the walls are as high as you want them to be and then add a roof. Lay two twigs down parallel to each other, then lay two different twigs on top of the first two so that they cross them. You can add towers by using paper towel tubes, toothpaste boxes, or whatever else you can think of. It may be too costly or time-consuming to make your whole house out of clay, but oven-bake clay is great for turrets or windows and comes in many useful colors. Glue cardboard, wood, and other materials together using a hot glue gun or perhaps wood glue.