How to make Fairy House Jars with air drying clay: Easy DIY tutorial

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Something fun to make... these little fairy houses are actually jars in which you can store tiny treasures. Bring out the air drying clay, and the acrylic paints, and let's begin. This is a long craft activity and will take a few hours. You can use store-bought clay or home-made one. Here is our tried and tested recipe for air drying clay:

1 cup corn flour
1/2 cup fevicol / white craft glue
2-3 spoons white vinegar
2-3 spoons of Vaseline or oil
Mix the corn flour, fevicol and vinegar. If too sticky, put loads of oil or Vaseline on your hands while kneading. Once the consistency is like clay, keep it in an airtight container and use it fast! Takes about a day to become fully dry. Then paint with acrylic colours.

Hope you guys have fun making these. If you do, do share and tag us on instagram as @skygoodiesco. We can't wait to see what you make!
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Detailed step-by-step instructions below:
This tutorial uses materials that you can find at home or can get easily.

You will need:
Air drying clay, home-made or from a store
Small glass jars with screw top lids
Aluminium foil
Toothpicks
Acrylic paints
Paint brushes

Start by thinking of the kind of fairy jar you want to make.
For example, the top could be flowers or leaves, or mushroom heads.

For the fairy house with a flower-shaped top, crumple and mould some aluminium foil to the top of the lid.
Cover it with air drying clay.

Mould the clay with your hands to make petals for the lid.
Mould and attach sepals and a base stem.

On the bottom half of the jar, add details of doors, windows, plants and grass with air drying clay.
Use toothpicks to make grooves and shape the clay.

Set the jar aside to dry for 3-5 hours.

For the mushroom-shaped fairy house, you will need more clay on the lid.
Make a large mushroom shape and let it dry for half an hour.
Then add some details, like a chimney and a window.

On the bottom half of the jar, add details of doors, windows and grass with the clay.
Add a mushroom or two if you like. Set the jar aside to dry for 3-5 hours.

With acrylic paints, add colour to your house, starting with a base coat.
You may need to put 2-3 coats of paint on the glass part of the jar.

Use your imagination to add colour to your little fairy houses, painting in the details with a fine brush.
Let the paint dry for 3-5 hours.

Voila! Your fairy house jars are ready to be filled with small treasures.
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So cute! These would be really fun with a little battery operated tea light inside to make it look like light coming out of the windows.

merrycmouse
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My 7yo used your video as inspiration to make a fairy house out of a large bowl 😊 it looks great! Thanks!

rebeccafeakes
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This is one of the best vids ive seen of fairy houses!

larrymuse
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CUTEST DAMNED THINGS IN THE :D I gotta make some straight away!

Ellie_xo
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How did you prevent the clay from cracking? They’re beautiful ❤️

melindadavis
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You made them with so much patience.. Beautiful work ☺️❤️

myselfacharyya
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Tres jolies a faire !! Pour ma part sa sera tout blanc et un peut de paillette rose pâle merci beaucoup et beau travail !pour la déco de Noël !

marieburggraeve
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I love your little houses. You are talented artist 👍

andihajar
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Old I was going about this the wrong way! I was trying to roll clay around the jar than cut out shapes for windows. Have to try this method

Creativeme
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Muy lindas. Felicidades. Te saludo desde Panamá. Bendiciones.

herlindavelasco
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love these little fairy cottages. i have been making some using empty wine types bottles. i made little round bricks for a textured dwelling. i used water with my das. a lot of my bricks fell off. what did i do wrong please? too much water maybe? thank you susanna x.

susannafrances
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Hola!!!! Me encanto tu trabajo saludos cuidese bendiciones la veo desde san josè costaricà

esperanzagonzales
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Замечательные домики, автор большой молодец!!!

pivdzfm
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Skygoodies i am fan of your work.i have a question here after the clay work n painting do we have to varnish the same???

archanabehera
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Very nice.deffinitely i will try these.but xcept show piece how i can use it ?

farjanajimy