Have you always wanted to see a real faerie? Legend has it that if you build a faerie home and leave it in your garden, you might attract a faerie into your domain. Even if you don’t believe in faeries, this is a great creative project and a way to test the myth …

Plan out your faerie house. Observe and adapt ideas from woodland cottages. Faerie houses can be round and short or skinny and tall.

Draw a realistic blueprint on a piece of paper of the main structure of your faerie house. Remember, it needs to be physically possible to construct this. However, decorations to your faerie house can be improvised.

Find a base structure such as milk carton or a birdhouse. You can also build one with cardboard or wood.

Gather your materials from the woods or your garden. They need to be dried natural materials because hot glue won’t stick to damp or green woods.

Build your house; you can use cardboard, wood or other materials. Glue them together using a hot glue gun or perhaps wood glue. 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. They come in many useful colours. You can add towers by using paper towel tubes, toothpaste boxes, or whatever else your imagination thinks up. Assemble your house on top of some sort of moveable platform.

Adorn the house with your findings. Once you have made your structure, you can decorate it with doors, vines, etc. Rustic and natural features will seem more realistic. Pebbles can be used in walkways or used to make a stone house. Birch tree bark has a beautiful look and you can use both sides. Don’t forget to include landscaping!

Create an inside world for the faeries, too. If you cut out the back of it, you can wallpaper the inside with natural materials, leather or natural paper. Either you can buy some inexpensive doll furniture or you can make your own out of twigs or clay:

Gather some dry twigs, both skinny and thick, from your backyard. Cut a couple pieces to the right dimensions for a table (about 4 inches long and 1 and 1/2 inches wide) and glue them together, forming a picture frame effect. When this has dried, lay twigs across the top and glue them to the frame. Now rest some table legs upward, on the underside of the table, and glue them carefully so the table can stand on its own.

Clay furniture is much easier to make but does not look as rustic. There are no real directions, just carefully mould some air-dry or oven-bake clay into furniture.

Admire your finished faerie house and place it in the garden or the house. Keep it in a quiet, secluded spot away from pets and toddlers.

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