Make Your Own Fairy Garden

Making you own fairy garden is super fun and a great way to interact with your kids!

I have a love for anything miniature. If I see something that is a small replica of anything I freak out. That is why I love American Girl stuff and anything fairy garden related. I frequent Joann Fabric and Hobby Lobby at least once a week. I also frequent local thrift stores and our Goodwill like nobody's business. I am always keeping my eyes peeled for mini items perfect for fairy gardens or our growing American Girl collection.

Last summer, I decided to take the plunge and finally make a fairy garden with my girls. My head started swirling with tons of fun ideas. I grew up on a rural farm and my parents are quasi-hoarders. Our old barn is filled with treasures and I immediately knew I wanted to use old galvanized tin wash buckets sitting in the front of the barn. Next, I needed some sort of 'grass'. Because I frequent craft stores I stopped into Joann Fabric and checked out the floral area where I found faux grass, perfect for the fairy garden. I also needed some pebbles so I headed over to Home Depot across the parking lot and grabbed a ½ off 50lb bag of pebbles for $2 (my husband utilized what I didn't need). Lastly I headed down to our local Dollar Tree, grabbing flat blue stones for 'water' and the girls picked out a table and chairs that we ended up painting for our fairies. We had a few fairy items at home already, including a fun camper birdhouse that I picked up at Rite Aid for half off (Rite Aid has the cutest birdhouses by the way and they are 50% off every week during the spring and summer)!

Make Your Own Fairy Garden

Materials:

Fairy garden container. It can be as big or as small as you would like it. I used some upcycled galvinized tins from my parents barn.
Dirt or filler of some sort
Faux grass
Flat blue stones
Pebbles (optional but wonderful for paths and walkways)
Fairies
Fairy garden accessories

Directions:

Fill your container(s) with dirt or filler material. I saved a few empty gallon milk jugs and placed them in the bottom of the my buckets, that way I wasn't filling it entirely with dirt.
Stack your containers if making a tower and cover the dirt with grass.
Decorate as you wish. Once we had the grass in place I let the girls decorate the fairy garden how they wanted with all the goodies we had collected. They had a blast! Even my son joined in the action.

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Easter Fairy Garden
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