Ph: 0403 386 540
fairy@fairytwinkletoes.com.au
Sprinkling fairy magic throughout Melbourne!

A little bit about Melanie Michaels
(a.k.a. Fairy Twinkletoes)
 

As a full time children's entertainer, I specialise in making kids laugh!

I delight thousands of children each year with amazing magic, enchanting puppetry, big laughs and hilarious surprises - performing for children at hospitals, schools and birthday parties.

I have been working with children for over fifteen years, in positions ranging from teaching literacy skills right though to flying trapeze!

In 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 I had the great honour of being invited to perform at the White House, Washington DC, for their annual Easter Celebrations - "The Easter Egg Roll" - one of the most treasured traditions in US presidential history.

After my first visit, I found myself on the front page of the official White House website - what an amazing surprise that was! 
Please click here to see the photo:)

This was followed by a week of shows in Hollywood at the "Magic Castle" - the most famous magic nightclub in the world!

I have also been a guest on Andrew Denton's show "Enough Rope" - please click here for a lovely photo of "Fairy Denton" and a link to a short video excerpt from the interview.

For the past three years I have attended the "KIDabra International Conference" - an annual convention in America for children's magician's and family entertainers. After each conference I return home with even more wonderful magic tricks up my sleeves - keeping my show fresh and fun with exciting new material!

Before I grew up and became a "fairy", I worked at Club Med Lindeman Island, as part of the Mini Club staff, and also taught gymnastics at
Wesley College.

I spent four wonderful seasons working on American Summer Camps - in Pennsylvania, New York and Wisconsin - taking care of the youngest campers, aged five and six, during their eight week overnight stay. At camp, I was also the tennis coaching specialist as well as circus specialist, teaching flying trapeze and juggling! Here in Melbourne, I have worked in many schools and after-care programs teaching juggling and other circus arts to budding little circus performers :)

I help sprinkle a little fairy magic at the Royal Children's Hospital, volunteering through "Challenge - Supporting Kids With Cancer" and the Starlight Foundation. I've also had the pleasure of granting many special wishes for sick children through the "Make a Wish Foundation".

Along with my great love of entertaining children, I am also a professional actress. Among many other theatre productions, I performed as Anne in Anne of Green Gables, at Rippon Lea gardens, reprising my role in Perth several years later. I attended full time circus school in New Zealand where I studied clowning, juggling, trapeze and physical theatre.

I have also recently discovered a passion for cake decorating and am absolutely loving being able to combine my parties with my magical creations!

Growing up, I was like most little girls and had an incredible fascination with fairies. My parents once told me about the "Freckle Fairy" who would come and give me a kiss every night, leaving another freckle on my nose! There is even the story of my Mum chasing after me when I first started prep - telling all my new classmates that my name wasn't actually "Tinkerbell" as I had been introducing myself!

Working as a full time children's entertainer has been so wonderful and rewarding for me.. and I plan to continue for as long as there are little girls and boys who believe in fairies!

Could there be anything more special than being thanked each day for making a child's dreams come true?

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