How to make a fairy house

We'd made a fairy well, now we needed a house for the fairies who will use it.

Materials:

Plastic bowl, cardboard, clear plastic, paint, PVA glue, pine needles, bark.

Method:
Mix orange and black paint and some PVA glue and paint the bowl brown.

Cut a strip of cardboard as wide as the height of the fairy house and long enough to go round the bowl with a bit of overlap. Cut out door and windows. Cut window shapes from clear plastic and tape to the inside of the cardboard.

Paint the outside of the cardboard a nice dark green.

Cut a circle of cardboard for the floor. Paint it with plenty of glue mixed into the paint.

Tape the cardboard into a cylinder and tape on the floor.

Glue pieces of bark to cover the wall. We started with PVA glue but we found the bark curled when wet, so we ended up using Selleys All Fix which was much easier to use, though unfortunately it dries white instead of clear.

Glue lengths of Norfolk Island pine dinosaur tails to the bowl to make a conical roof.

To make more of a thatched roof, add pine needles or casuarina needles. We used PVA glue for these as we didn't want white glue showing, and tied some thread loosely around to hold them in place while the glue dried.