Last Friday, April 17, was a night where you walked into the magical world of Pixie Hollow full of magic, light, and most importantly, movies, arts and crafts. This was the event set up by the Residential Hall Association (RHA). When you first walked into Lakeside, the sound of the Tinkerbell movies was playing on the TV and the overhead speakers. Then there was the bright red popcorn machine and the bags of popcorn, which were free. Once you signed in, students moved on to the arts and crafts table, where there are many options, but each craft was associated with one of the six fairies from “Tinkerbell,” her main friend group.
For Vidia, there were Tinkerbell coloring book pages. The RHA member running the tables said, “You’re coloring in a lot of wings and Vidia is a fast-flying fairy.” Still fun nonetheless.
Next was painting sun catchers to represent Iridessa, the sun fairy. Or making your own garden and your own headbands using fake flowers and plants, which represents Rossetta, the garden fairy, for obvious reasons.
Another craft was making little animal friends using pine cones, cotton balls, felt and googly eyes, representing the animal fairy Fawn.
For Tinkerbell, students made keychains that were woven by hand, reminiscent of the tinkers weaving the baskets in “Tinkerbell Secret of the Wings” that played.
Lastly, students made what RHA describes as “a glitter lava lamp fidget toy,” representing Silvermist, the water fairy, which is perfect, since her character is the soft, calm sort of person. The craft was basically glitter and oil in a bottle, but it was very satisfying to watch the glitter sink.
The movie part of the night was mostly background noise, but still loud enough that people would watch it in between working on their crafts. Overall, it was a fun hangout for students to do with friends or just wanting to make some fun crafts.
