How do you Use a Fairy Door? - Away with the Fairies (2024)

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A Fairy Door can be used for many different things, the biggest being to help to encourage imaginative play and boost the child’s imagination. These are the most common uses among parents that have introduced a Fairy portal into their home.

  • Overcoming theira Fear of the Dark
  • Imaginative Play
  • Portal for the Tooth Fairy
  • Monsters under the bed and in the cupboard
  • Giving up Soothers
  • Starting School
  • Rewarding Good Behaviour
  • Helping a Child with Loneliness
  • Celebrating Special Occasions, Birthdays, Easter and Christmas
  • Easing Worries and Anxiety

These Magical doorways are designed to bring laughter, hope, imagination, creative play, encouragement, and comfort to children. The most enchanting thing about Fairy Doors is that they go way beyond their decorative features, so as a result they are used to assist children with many of life’s obstacles and difficult moments.

What is a Fairy Door?

Fairy Doors are miniature Fairy portals that you attach to a wall, tree, shelf, or cupboard. They will create a magical doorway to fairyland that can only be accessed by your fairy.

Using a fairy door in your home can be a fun and exciting way to create some magic and boost your child’s imagination

So a Fairy Door can only be entered by a fairy. By fixing the door to a wall, you create a magical doorway to an enchanted land. This imaginary world of make-believe is a special realm where the fairy lives. As a result, they can travel to communicate and leave gifts for the child. So here are some things to bear in mind when selecting your fairy door;

  • Find a Nice Location
  • Choose your Fairy Door. Is it going to be Outside? There are a range of Weatherproof doors for attaching to trees and fences
  • Select suitable Accessories to set the scene and for your fairies to have fun with.

Communication with your Fairies

Children can write notes or draw pictures for their fairy, who in turn may write back. So this is such a creative way to encourage your child to express themselves and just maybe, “Your fairies” may communicate back to encourage your child.

The Fairy Door introduces a child to a secretive fairy friend because it then gives the most amazing opportunity to communicate with them through it. So Most Kids love secrets, whether that be imaginary friends or just by keeping ‘secrets’. Secrets are special and magical to a child.

But the ‘magic’ is however dependent upon you ‘the parent’ to be secretly involved in the fun by leaving the occasional fairy note or gift for your child to discover

Special Fairy Rewards

Fairy Doors are also a great way to reward a child for doing well and to encourage positive behavior.

Because as parents, we realize how hard it can be at times to persuade our kids to tidy up their bedroom, finish their homework, help around the house, and even be nice to their brothers and sisters too. But a Fairy Door helps by turning these chores into things that “fairies are watching and can reward”.

By secretly leaving treats, gifts, and cards outside the door ‘from your fairy’ anytime you notice your child doing something you like, you create a powerful tool to positively influence your child.

How do you Decorate a Fairy Door

Just like their us fairies love to decorate their fairy doors to celebrate the seasons. So you can help them do this by adding adorable fairy-sized decor outside your door depending on the time of year. You can create your own or buy ready-made decorations to keep your fairies happy.

From Valentine’s Day through to Christmas there is a myriad of opportunities to adorn these diminutive doors. Think glittery hearts and candies for Valentine’s day, miniature eggs and baskets for Easter along with some spring flowers, and tiny tinsel and trees for Christmas. The list is endless and lots of fun, but it will also ensure your fairies will stick around it their well-kept surroundings!

So If you fancy trying your hand at Fairy Gardening then why not check out my video for about 8 years ago!


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How do you Use a Fairy Door? - Away with the Fairies (2024)

FAQs

How do you use fairy doors? ›

Fairy Doors are miniature Fairy portals that you attach to a wall, tree, shelf, or cupboard. They will create a magical doorway to fairyland that can only be accessed by your fairy. So a Fairy Door can only be entered by a fairy. By fixing the door to a wall, you create a magical doorway to an enchanted land.

What is the purpose of a fairy door? ›

Fairy Folklore

Traditional fairy doors are fixed onto the base of a tree as a fun folklore gesture that creates the ability for fairies to cross in and out of our world. Children are delighted to find them and sometimes even leave little gifts.

Where is the best place to put a fairy door? ›

In a tree: One of the most popular places to put a fairy door is in a tree. Look for a tree with a hollow or a knot hole that could serve as the entrance for the fairies. Place the door at eye level, and make sure it is visible from a path or a seating area.

What do you leave at a fairy door? ›

Some popular items to leave include shiny trinkets like crystals or beads, small toys or figurines, colorful flowers or petals, or even a handwritten note or poem. Whatever you choose to leave, make sure it's something that comes from the heart and shows your appreciation for the magical world of fairies!

How do you set up a fairy house? ›

To make a fairy house, start by decorating a piece of cardboard or scrap wood with pebbles, moss, or grass to use as a base for your house. Next, stack twigs like Lincoln logs to make walls for the house, using wood glue to keep them together. You'll also want to leave a hole for the door.

How do I get fairies to come to my house? ›

Primrose—put some on your porch to let fairies know they're welcome in your home. puss*willow—the soft, silky pods make perfect fairy pillows. Rocks—fairies are attracted to all kinds of shiny stones like agate, quartz, or crystal. Use them to decorate your garden and give the little ones a place to sit.

Where do fairies like to go? ›

They are often said to also thrive in woodland communities, underground forest kingdoms, or inhabit lakes, hills and streams and come in many shapes and sizes though most of course, are small.

What keeps fairies away? ›

Iron, usually called "cold iron" (though this is a poetic term for iron), is supposed to be the best deterrent for fairies. They can't touch it and they can't even, sometimes, go near it. To protect babies from fairies, iron shears might be hung over the cradle.

What happens if you stand in a fairy ring? ›

Numerous legends focus on mortals entering a fairy ring—and the consequences. One superstition is that anyone who steps into an empty fairy ring will die at a young age. A 20th-century tradition from Somerset calls the fairy ring a "galley-trap" and says that a murderer or thief who walks in the ring will be hanged.

How to put a fairy door on the wall? ›

Installing a fairy door is surprisingly simple. All you need is a dollhouse door kit (readily available at craft stores) and craft glue. Not sure you want the fairy door to be a permanent fixture? Attach it with mounting putty or removable tape instead.

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