How to Make Fairy Dust: Magical Blue Fairy Dust Glitter Potion
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(Describer) Beside a pendant with blue, white and clear beads, in faded purple, an illustrated mermaid looks up at a title: The Magic Crafter. Everything is overlaid with a fine, cross-hatched linen texture.
[band playing Irish jig]
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(host) Today we are going to learn how to make some magical fairy dust, because who couldn't use some extra sparkles and magic in their life?
(Describer) She sprinkles some onto a display of moss, wood and glass bottles.
Now that we have the magical sparkles all over the place, let's gather our materials and get this party started. Before you can do any magic-making, you need to make sure that you have all the ingredients that you need first. The number one thing you'll need is a vial of some sort to hold your fairy dust in. I am using a glass one with a cork stopper, but if you can find a plastic one, that would be great. That way, if it drops and shatters, you won't scatter pixie dust or fairy dust all over everywhere. You also want a mixing bowl,
(Describer) She sets down a small glass one.
a teaspoon, and a tablespoon. You will also want some white glitter, some purple glitter, some cellophane chunks of glitter. I think they call it cello glitter.
(Describer) It's in shiny white flakes.
I am also going to use some superfine smoky blue glitter and some superfine glow-in-the-dark white glitter. But wait. You aren't done yet. You're going to need a piece of paper to act as a funnel to get your pixie dust into your vial. And, lastly, you will need a magic wand or something else to stir the glitter so you can mix everything up and get all of your colors blended. Once you have all the materials you need, grab your magic wand, and let's make some fairy dust. We're going to start out with the cellophane glitter chunks. I am going to take my tablespoon, and I'm going to measure out about 3 tablespoons of the cellophane.
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(Describer) As the bowl sits on the rough wood, she puts in spoonfuls of the thin flakes, which also have pink and blue tones in the light.
Next, I'm going to take my purple glitter, and I'm going to measure out 1 tablespoon of that and dump it in there with the cellophane. After that, I'm going to add some of the white glitter, 2 tablespoons of this.
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(Describer) The pieces of the purple and white glitters are smaller than the flakes.
Next, we are going to move on to the superfine glitter. I'm going to measure out 1 tablespoon of that. I already put some in there because I had a bit of an accident.
(Describer) From a container, she shakes out more super-fine glitter into the spoon.
Then, dump it into your bowl.
(Describer) The texture is like fine salt.
And now for the last bit of glitter. I'm going to take my smoky blue-colored superfine glitter, and I am going to add 2 teaspoons of that.
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(Describer) She pours the glitter into the spoon. The smokey blue is medium-dark with a gray tone. She adds it to the bowl, and measures another spoonful.
(Describer) She adds it to the bowl, where it shimmers.
Now that you have all of your glitter in your mixing bowl, take your magic wand, or, I guess if you want, you can use a spoon or other stir stick. Now stir up all of your fairy dust.
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(Describer) She stirs slowly and thoroughly, then goes faster.
(Describer) The flakes of cello glitter take on some of blue and purple tones, making them lighter. She stirs so the different sizes of glitter are evenly mixed. Then she sets her magic wand across the bowl.
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There you go. Now it is beautiful! Once you have all of your fairy dust blended, take your vial and take the top off of it. Set that aside, and now grab your paper-- or if you have a funnel, that's great too-- and roll it up so that it's a cone shape with an opening at the bottom like that.
(Describer) She rolls it so it can fit in the narrow vial opening.
Now stick this in the top of your vial.
(Describer) She does.
Now we're going to pour the fairy dust in through the funnel.
(Describer) She picks up the bowl and starts pouring it into the funnel. Only a small amount drops inside the round vial body at first.
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(Describer) She sets down the bowl and uses two hands to adjust the paper so the funnel opening gets bigger. More of the glitter mixture flows into the vial.
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(Describer) She pours more of the mixture from the bowl and gets it to drop through the funnel into the vial in spurts.
(Describer) Later, the vial is about half full with some glitter lining the inside.
Once you have got all of your fairy dust into your vial, you can stick the top back on. And there you go. You have a beautiful vial of fairy dust ready to make magic whenever you need it.
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Follow this tutorial to make magical blue fairy dust. The ingredients are simple to locate, and the finished product is fun to scatter around.
Media Details
Runtime: 5 minutes 24 seconds
- Topic: Arts
- Subtopic: Arts, Crafts, Hobbies
- Grade/Interest Level: 3 - 8
- Release Year: 2016
- Producer/Distributor: Brittany Adams
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