Instructions

After you’ve wrestled with getting the little skeletons off their paper board--this took me more time than I’ll admit to--take a sharp pair of scissors and completely cut the loop off the top of each skull you plan to paint. 

PAINTING THE FAIRIES

Paint each skeleton solid white. Even if you plan to make them neon in the end. The neon paint needs a white base coat and will look gnarly without one. Use acrylic paint, as it will stick to the plastic a bit better than other varieties. 

FOR WHITE SKELETON FAIRIES: You’ll have to paint on 2-3 coats for solid coverage. Let the paint dry between coats. Patience isn’t my virtue, either, but trust the results will be better for your little fairies this way. 

FOR NEON SKELETON FAIRIES: After painting your white base coat, choose your favorite neon acrylic paint and settle in to put 4-5 coats on each skeleton. Neon paint tends to go on rather thin, so you will need to layer the paint up. That very last coat will be so worth it when the skeleton goes from looking sad to looking brilliant all of a sudden.

Because I have no patience, I nearly chucked the neons on this project because I just couldn’t get them to look good. Glad I stuck with them and kept on painting! 

ASSEMBLING SKELETON FAIRIES

The butterfly wings I purchased were plastic sheets I had to bend up a bit to get three dimensional.

You’ll find butterfly wings made from feathers, plastic, paper and lots of other materials. Make whatever you find work! 

To attach the wings to the skeleton, just dab a bit of hot glue or place a glue dot high on the back of the skeleton and press the wings on. If your butterfly wings have and insect body with antenna, you make need to remove this part before putting the wings with the skeleton. 

After the glue cools, you totally have the option of adding a little glitter, some rhinestones, maybe an LED light or two? Go crazy!