How to Make a Fairy House With Food

If you love collecting fairies, you'll love the mystical look of a fairy house. Make a fairy house for fun or for a little girl's birthday party. Use these tips to make a fairy house with food that you can eat or just look at.

Things You'll Need

• Cardboard
• Gingerbread
• Candy
• Pretzels
• Colored pasta
• Beans and lentils
• Glue or icing

Instructions

1. Build the base of the fairy house with tiny cardboard boxes like gelatin boxes, tooth pick boxes or cup of soup boxes. You can also build the base using gingerbread cookies.

2. Create several small houses and use ice cream cones for roves. Glue cardboard pieces together with a glue gun or attach gingerbread pieces with icing that dries hard. Let the structure dry completely before you decorate.

3. Decorate the house with small candies, pasta, nuts, pretzels, beans and lentils. Put small candies on the walls and long black licorice around the doors and windows.

4. Look at photos of wooden fairy houses to get an idea of their mystical look. You want a house that looks natural and wooden not a house that looks like a gingerbread house which is bright and colorful.

5. Use small pieces of licorice or tiny brown noodles to create a thatched roof on a house. Use cotton candy for mystical looking trees. Put it on sticks and have them leaning against the structures.

6. Add rows of tiny orange lentils to create paths leading from the doorways. Trim the windows with tiny nuts. Lean pretzel sticks against the walls so the house looks rustic.

Tips & Warnings

• Make your fairy house look natural and man-made instead of structured and pristine.