As promised earlier, here are the poinsettia people. My friend Missy made these with my big kids years ago. It was fun to make them again with the little guys. I noticed that a certain really big kid wandered in long enough to "help" make three of them. The boy still can't resist a little paint and the smell of a glue gun!
You need a clothespin doll kit, flesh colored pipe cleaners, silk poinsettias, a glue gun, yellow felt, fake hair, pink paint and paint the color of eyes.
For each flower fairy, snip apart the poinsettias so that you have two larger red petals and two smaller ones. You'll need two green leaves about the size of the larger red petals. Reserve the middle of the flower, too. Cut a rectangle of yellow felt to use as a tunic. You'll want a very small hole in the middle of it.
Glue the hair to the top of the doll head.
Glue the larger red petals to the clothes pin to make a skirt. The petals will curve as you glue them around the clothes pin. ONe goes int he front and one goes in the back.
Layer the smaller red petals over the larger ones.
Thread a flesh colored pipecleaner through the hole in the clothes pin, looping it to make arms.
Slip the tunic over the top of the clothespin and tie it with gold cord.
Pop the head on top of the clothespin.
Glue the green leaves to the back to make fairy wings.
Glue a little bit of the center of the poinsettia flowers to the top of the head. Paint a face or use magic markers.Tie with gold cord to hang. (I prefer to tie the waistcord in back but the crafter who made this one argued differed with me.)
