How to Make Fairy Wings

With a pair of fairy wings, you can turn any nice dress into a costume. With these instructions you can throw together dragon fly style fairy wings.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 2 or 4 wire coat hangers
• Pliers
• Masking Tape
• Tissue paper
• Glue
• Glitter
• Ribbon
• Rubber bands
• Knee high nylons

1. Shape the loop part of the clothes hangers into long ovals with the hooks on the ends. For a small child's fairy costume you might want to use only two coat hangers. For a larger child or adult, you'll want to use four coat hangers.

2. Twist the hook portions of the hangers together, and twist the twisted wire back around the frame to hold the fairy wings together at the base.

3. Wrap tape over the wire ends to keep it from poking the future fairy.

4. Pull a knee high nylon stocking over each of the wire wing forms you made in the last step. Hold the stockings onto the wire fairy wing forms with a rubber band. Don't forget knee highs come in different colors.

5. Tie ribbon loops onto the wings so they can be worn like a backpack.

6. Wrap some wide ribbon or some nice paper over the base of the wings to hide the stocking tops.

7. Draw on the wings with glue.

8. Sprinkle glitter over the glue.