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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We have some winners for Britain’s first ever Hedgehog Heap Competition! (Read all about hedgehogs and the competition here – the winners each receive free tickets for a family of four) A big thank you to all who entered. This was a very difficult competition to judge! We should have…
Everyone wants to avoid plastic but it’s hard at Halloween, which is now second only to Christmas as date for family days out, parties and celebrations, and sees a tide of plastic tat in many shops. Sarah Wise of the Fairyland Trust offers these ideas for achieving a #plasticfree Halloween…
[entry deadline extended to 13 October] “Hedgehog” by Adrian Midgley is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Do you want to help our Hedgehogs? If so you could win a family ticket to The Real Halloween, by entering our Hedgehog Heap Competition #hedgehogheapcomp. (No not a heap of hedgehogs – a…
