Finding Non Plastic Glue For Your Makes
We get ours from – Coccoina glue – from Fred Aldhous
Bat Kits On Sale Now
Celebrate the magic of The Real Halloween with our Bats workshop. Each order will contain everything you need to make an adorable roosting Brown long eared or Daubentons bat in your own home. Ahead of Halloween, you…
Bug Bling Beetles Template
If you are making your Bug Bling at home, you will need to print the beetle templates from below and stick on card, then watch our video at our Youtube Channel and follow Sarah Wise’s steps to see how to create your wearable Bug Bling.
Watch How To Make Butterflies and Moths
Today 17 July is World Butterfly Day! Watch our new video here or at our Youtube Channel where you can find more make-videos If you are doing the ‘make’, you can get the Merino Wool from World of Wool, Coccina glue from Fred Aldhous, and the template for the butterfly…
Watch Our New Bluebell Chime Video
In our latest Youtube Channel Video Sarah Wise explains how to make your own Bluebell Chime to bring some of the magic of bluebells into your home. Sarah also explains some of the folklore and ecology of these beautiful flowers, and how bluebell woods are one of Britain’s…
Golden Dandelion Competition 2020
UPDATE 26 April 2020 We Have a Winner ! We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2020 Golden Dandelion are Justine Lara Bentley and her daughter Sienna (aged 4). Congratulations to them and very many thanks to all who sent us some wonderful dandelion photos…
Nature At Home
Now that so many people are at home and we had to cancel the Fairy Fair because of Covid-19, we thought we’d share some of the content of our makes and Workshops with you – for all those children and families who would like some nature-at-home. How to…
It’s Queen Bee Time!
Hungry Queen Bumble Bees are now starting to emerge from their winter shelters, and will urgently need to find pollen and nectar before starting new nests. Bumble Bees will feature in a new Workshop at the Fairy Fair but you can help them right now. Watch our ‘Fairy…
How to Make a Veg-o-Lantern
Veg-o-Lanterns are the modern Fairyland Trust version of the traditional Jack-o-Lantern. Make one and enter our wonderful Veg-o-Lantern competition! (Complete with actual prizes). Only happens at The Real Halloween. Full details and lots of background to the traditions which are inter-twined with magic and mystery – at this page. Watch…
The Scariest Thing About Halloween Is the Plastic (2019)
2019 Halloween Costumes and Clothing Plastics Survey [updated with global data 23 10 19] (see ’10 Top Tips’ for dressing up without plastic below) (Download a bigger version of this infographic) Plastic is scary stuff best avoided wherever possible, so the really scary thing about Halloween is the vast amount…