| Race | Fairy |
| Gender | ♀ Female |
| Series | Holiday Special |
| Magical Item(s) / Animal(s) | Friendship bracelet, water bottle, compass |
| Symbol(s) | Gold stars and green oak leaves |
| Location | Camp Oakwood |
| Special Thanks | Tracey West |
| Publish date |  2 May 2013 |
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Nicki the Holiday Camp Fairy is the 25th fairy in the Holiday Special Fairies series.
Blurb[]
Holiday camp is one of the best things about summer thanks to Nicki the Holiday Camp Fairy! Rachel and Kirsty have been looking forward to camp for months, but everything is going wrong. Can they help Nicki fix things, before the whole summer is ruined?
Appearance[]
Nicki has tanned skin and dark brown hair pulled into bunches with freckles. She wears an orange vest top over a pink T-shirt, cropped blue jeans, pink trainers and a rainbow-striped necklace with two friendship bracelets on her left wrist. Her wings are pointy and pale orange-tinted.
Symbol: Gold stars and green oak leaves.
Magic Objects/Job[]
Magic Objects:
- The Holiday Camp Bracelet: keeps all types of camp arts and crafts fun.
- The Water Bottle: makes sure campers keep as cool as possible in the summer heat.
- The Compass: makes sure that campers don't get lost in the woods.
Job: Nicki's job is to make sure that camping is fun for all campers!
Jack Frost's Poem[]
Goblins adore some things about camp,
Bugs and games and mud and damp.
But I, Jack Frost, can't stand the sun,
I sit in the dark while campers have fun.
So I'll ruin camp and drain the lake,
I'll spoil the crafts kids love to make.
As long I have the items three,
No one will have fun but me!
Story Summary[]
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Camp Chaos![]
Rachel and Kirsty are at Camp Oakwood for the summer and are in the middle of a crafts session led by the camp leader, Bollie. Just as they’re decorating their drawings with wool, the glue won’t stick. Instead, Bollie turns to the paint spinner and sets it up, but paint splatters everywhere. Bollie decides to cancel craft time altogether and go on a hike. Rachel and Kirsty suspect it might have something to do with Jack Frost. The troupe comes across large footprints but no one can decipher whose they are, apart from Rachel and Kirsty. They’re goblin footprints.
Later in the evening, the girls discuss the day’s weird occurrences and decide to sprinkle some fairy dust into a puddle (rather than use it to go to Fairyland because “Bollie would be looking for us”, forgetting that time stops when they’re in Fairyland). King Oberon and Queen Titania appear in the puddle and the girls explain what’s happened. They respond they will send Nicki the Holiday Camp Fairy right away and moments later, Nicki appears within a light display by some fireflies. Nicki looks in her backpack to find her three magic objects have been replaced by rocks because Jack Frost has stolen them. Ellie Campbell, the girls’ acquaintance, comes up to them and tells them it’s time to go to bed, before gushing to them about fairies.
In the morning, Rachel and Kirsty are getting ready for a canoe trip, but the lake is too low and the canoes are leaking. The camp leaders grant everyone an hour of free time and Nicki appears, having found Jack Frost on the other side of the woods and he’s set up his own camp, Camp Frost. Nicki magics the girls there and they see goblins chaotically taking part in various crafts.
Rachel has an idea and gets Nicki to magic up papier mâché goblin noses as disguises and Rachel and Kirsty enter the craft cabin. They join in making lolly stick picture frames and as they do, the goblins reveal Jack Frost took Nicki’s objects because he can’t have fun in the sun, so no one will. As they’re distracted, Rachel grabs Nicki’s bracelet which is inside an art supplies tub, but Kirsty’s fake nose slips and the goblins realise they’re humans.
The girls run out of the cabin and the goblins follow but become stuck in glue, thanks to Nicki’s magic. As they run through the woods back to Camp Oakwood, the girls realise they’re going in circles, because Jack Frost has taken Nicki’s magic compass. The goblins are getting nearer but luckily an army of squirrels hiding in the trees start pelting acorns down at them. The squirrels then proceed to show Rachel and Kirsty back to Camp Oakwood and Nicki takes her bracelet and vanishes. However, Ellie is right there and sees her, but Rachel and Kirsty convince her it was just a butterfly. The three girls go and search for fairies around the camp.
Melting Magic[]
The next day, Bollie wakes up the girls in Rachel and Kirsty’s cabin. Their troupe is the Fun Foxes, made up of Charlotte, Sophie, Rosie, Abigail and Alyssa. As everyone lines up in the food hall to get breakfast, everyone becomes increasingly hot and the fans won’t work. Bollie announces that the canoes have been fixed and everyone will go and cool off in the lake. However, when they get there, the lake is even lower than yesterday. Unfortunately, Bollie has to turn everyone back to the camp, but decides to compensate with a water balloon fight.
Everyone works together to fill balloons with water, but when they’re thrown, the water is warm and uncomfortable. Bollie, thinking on her feet yet again, sends some camp leaders to get ice creams, letting everyone have some free time. Rachel and Kirsty walk into the woods but get lost. Luckily, Nicki appears and explains Jack Frost has put more goblin guards around his cabin in his camp. They all start to think of ways to get the goblins out of the camp. Kirsty suggests they make a fake holiday camp bracelet and lure the goblins out into the woods.
Rachel and Kirsty leave Nicki while they get some wool, but see the camp leaders pull up, having bought ice creams from town. The children line up to get one, but when they open the lid, they see the ice cream is like hot chocolate. The girls run to the camp and fetch some things for their plan. They go back to the woods and Nicki magics up a bracelet that looks just like hers. Rachel and Kirsty sit down and start making bracelets, loudly announcing how much fun it is. Soon enough, some goblins come wandering over.
When they spot Nicki, they grab her tiny backpack instead, so Rachel tackles the goblin who has it, causing him to drop it. Nicki swoops in and takes it again and the goblins start running back to Camp Frost. A big branch falls down from a tree, causing the goblins to fall over it. Rachel plucks out the water bottle from within the goblin pile and hands it back to Nicki, who turns the girls and her bottle into fairy-size. The girls notice a woodpecker peeking around the trunk, it’s Nicki’s friend Hazel who broke the branch in the nick of time.
The girls and Nicki fly back to Camp Oakwood and Nicki disappears, turning the girls back into humans as they walk out the woods. Ellie is there again and says she saw more fairies. They all hear cheers from the camp and race back there to find everyone running towards the lake, as the water level has risen again. Everyone enjoys splashing about in the lake.
Confused Campers![]
That evening, the Fun Foxes are eating ice lollies in food hall when Ellie comes up to Rachel and Kirsty, asking if they’ll go fairy-searching with her. The girls suggest playing tomorrow and Ellie leaves dejectedly. Rachel and Kirsty leave and find Nicki in the woods and invite her along to the campfire later on. Nicki makes herself smaller and glowing, like a firefly. At the campfire, everyone is having fun singing campfire songs all night and when it’s time to go to bed, the camp leaders count the children in each troupe. However, one of the Happy Hedgehogs is missing and they realise that it’s Ellie. The camp leaders send everyone to bed while they look for her and Rachel and Kirsty remember that without Nicki’s magic compass, Ellie and the camp leaders will get lost.
The girls sneak out of their cabin and meet Nicki again, who has called on an owl called Midnight to help find Ellie. The girls turn into fairies and they and Nicki ride Midnight over the woods and eventually find Ellie. The girls turn back into humans and run up to Ellie, who got lost looking for fairies. Midnight shows them the way back to the camp and the girls bump into Bollie and the other camp leaders. Bollie is cross as they could have got lost, but Kirsty shows them the way back to camp, with Midnight’s help.
The next morning, the girls have free time before a volleyball tournament and they find Nicki on a tree branch. They enter the woods to go to Camp Frost but goblins are hiding around and throw acorns at them. The girls go back to camp because free time is nearly over and hear Ellie talking about what happened the night before as she saw a camp on the other side of the woods, with boys wearing green uniforms. Bollie thinks it must be a Forest Scout camp, even though the boys’ camp on the other side of the wood had closed years ago. She fondly remembers when Camp Oakwood and the boys’ camps would raid each other and decides to lead a raid on the camp. Rachel and Kirsty are concerned at everyone seeing goblins and manage to convince Bollie to do the raid around sunset so they won’t see them properly.
Throughout the day, Camp Oakwood prepares themselves with water balloons. Bollie leads everyone through the woods and when they come to Camp Frost, everyone begins throwing water balloons at the goblins. Among the chaos, Rachel and Kirsty sneak to Jack Frost’s cabin but he’s there waiting for them, holding up Nicki’s magic compass. He refuses to give it back, saying he wants to have fun sitting around a campfire like everyone else, but he can’t because it’s too hot. Just as he begins to steal Nicki’s backpack, Kirsty suggests a deal as Nicki can make a magic fire that feels cold if he’ll give the compass back. He agrees and Nicki magics up a freezing campfire. Back at the raid, Bollie calls everyone to retreat as all the water balloons have been used up. To celebrate the successful raid, everyone gathers around the campfire, toasting marshmallows. They can hear the goblin camp singing from across the woods.
The next day, Rachel and Kirsty are woken by a robin at their window. They go outside to find Nicki, who has two bracelets for them and one for Ellie since the King and Queen felt sorry for her getting lost. Nicki thanks them for their help one last time and disappears. The girls give Ellie the bracelet and reassure her that fairies are real if she believes in them.
Trivia[]
- Her U.S equivalent is Cara the Camp Fairy.
- She is the first UK fairy to be based off a U.S special,
- The fairies Rachel and Kirsty draw at the beginning are Lexi the Firefly Fairy and Zara the Starlight Fairy, this also happens in the U.S version.
- Her book is included in the Summer Holiday Collection.
- Florence the Friendship Fairy, Maria the Mother's Day Fairy and her U.S equivalent also have magic objects that are bracelets.
- Giselle the Christmas Ballet Fairy and her U.S equivalent also have magic objects that are water bottles.
- Ellen the Explorer Fairy and her U.S equivalent also have magic objects that are compasses.
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