Faerieland Marquee at Kidz in The Park

The faeries had a lovely time at this year's Mercury Kidz in the Park celebrations on the 4th of January. They were kept busy with facepainting, storytelling, faerie ballet, magical potions and decorating glitter faerie flowers. There was also a fabulous colouring-in contest. Scroll down the page to see all the fun of the day! Alternativly, click on one of the following links to immediately take you to a particular topic within the page.

Faerie Moonbeam Colouring Competition

Faerie Wishing Well

Faerie Ballet

Fabulous Face Painting

Stories with the Faeries

Magical Potions

Faerie Craft

Special Acknowledgements

Faerie Moonbeam colouring contest

Many children took the chance to enter our colouring contest. You can see a selection of the entries we received in the picture gallery below. The prizes for the colouring-in contest were one $50.00 and four $20.00 gift vouchers from The Faerie Shop. Thanks to everyone who took part, and congratulations to our winners:

Andrea (6) of Blackmans Bay
Hannah (9) of South Hobart
Charlotte (6) of Glenorchy
Ebony (10) of Longley
Sophina (3) of Battery Point

Here is a sample of some of the entries that were received, including those of our five winners. More will appear on our website in the next few days (Please click on one of the drawings to see the gallery in full size).




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(If you would like to colour-in a picture of yourself with Faerie Moonbeam, you can download it from our Faerie Fun page or pick one up the next time you visit The Faerie Shop)

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Faerie Wishing Well

Faerie Wishing Well at Kidz in the Park

The faeries brought their favourite wishing well to the Park, and many, many visitors made wishes. The most popular wishes were to be a faerie, or meet a faerie; to have a new puppy; and to have a horse! The wishing well is now at our shop in Salamanca Place, so you can come and make a wish the next time you visit.

Here are some more photographs of our wishing well and people making wishers at Kidz in the Park. (Please click on one of the photograpsh to view the full gallery).

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Faerie Ballet

Faerie Skyla and friends enjoying faerie ballet

Every little girl loves to dance! Faeries Skyla, Pearl Drop and their friends had a fabulous time dancing to their hearts delight at Kidz in the Park. And what a wonderful show they put on for everybody in the area of the faerie marquee. We have included a gallery of photographs so everybody can see what fun they had. (Please click on one of the photographs to see the whole gallery)

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Fabulous Face Painting

Faerie face painting fun!

Face painting proved to be a spectacular success on the day. The Faerie Shop provided 4 face painters for most of the day and each and everyone was kept busy for the whole time. Children loved their faces and so did some of the adults too!

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Stories with the Faeries

Faerie Emerald is a Faerie Shop favourite and she had children entranced with her stories. She and the other faeries also delighted children with faerie sparkles, magical wishes and special together time.

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Magical Potions

The Faerie Shop was extremly lucky to have Faerie Moondust available for Kidz in the Park. Faerie Moondust is a magical faerie who knows lots of spells, potions and wizardly lore.

Faerie Moondust ran some magical potions classes where children (and parents) were able to make special potions and other interesting things. A favourite with the boys in particular was Worm Slime! We have included a gallery of photographs so everybody can see what fun they had (Please click on one of the photographs to see the whole gallery).

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Faerie Craft

Perryn the Pixie had lots of fun helping children with some craft activities. Even some of the parents helped too!

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Special Acknowlegements

The Faerie Shop would like to acknowledge the support of the Hobart City Council in enabling us to have the faerieland marqee at this year's Kidz in the Park, as well as the organisational input of the Council's Events Co-ordinator, Rebecca Free. The assistance provided was much appreciated and contributed greatly to the success of the day.

The beautiful photographs appearing on this page were, once again, taken by our friends at Monkey Gumboots who are specialists in children's photography. If you would like to see the full range of photos taken, or buy any, please contact Dean at Monkey Gumboots directly.

Monkey Gumboots - Specialists in Children's Photography

Winter Opening Hours:

Mon-Fri: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Sat: 9.30am - 3.00pm
Sun: 10.30am - 3.30pm
Public Holidays: as advertised

A Terrarium - a faerie garden

Would you like to make a garden for the Faeries to play in while its cold and snowy outside? We know that the winter Faeries love being out in the cold but some faeries, like Faerie Sweetpea like to have somewhere nice and warm to sleep. To make a terrarium you will need a big glass jar or bowl; some soil (with a sprinkle of faerie dust); some precious stones or some moss or grass seed; some gems (the help to keep it warm); and something soft to make into a faerie bed.

Place the gems at the bottom of the jar. Then for the next layer sprinkle some soil along with the Faerie dust, enough to give the moss or grass something to grow in. If you are using grass seed you can sprinkle it on and then another thin layer of soil. If you have some moss you can gently put it enough in to cover the soil. You should now have some beautiful sparkly layers to your Faerie garden.
You can make a bed for the faeries to sleep in out of something lovely and soft like some wool or feathers. A nice spot for your terrarium would be near a window so the Faeries can see it easily! Please don't put a lid on the jar otherwise the faeries might not be able to get inside!! We hope you have lots of visitors to your indoor Faerie garden.

Write to us at the Faerie Shop. Write to Faerie Moonbeam, the Faerie Attic, Salamanca Arts Centre, 11/17 Salamanca Place Hobart Tas 7000