How to make a fairy garden

Do you dream for a fairy tale garden?

Dream no more, here are some lovely ideas and pictures that will make your garden and home even more beautiful.

Most of the fairy gardens are simply designed and easy to accomplish but the more you add details the more it becomes challenging. You can create various gardens depending on your skills and imagination.

What You’ll Need:

Sketch pad or blank paper

Pencil

Base structure (empty plastic drink bottles, cardboard boxes, toilet roll inners,

Scissors

Natural materials (pebbles, bark, twigs, leaves, pine cones, acorns, crystals)

Adhesive (glue or double-sided tape)

Package of sheet moss

Paint, glitter, and accoutrements as desired

Step 1: Make Some Sketches

Draw a guideline to work from. Take the general shape of the base structure you have and determine how you’re going to decorate it. Draw in the house and perhaps add a path or a log or a little pond.

Will your fairy house be covered in bark and twigs? Or will it be a stone structure with a little chimney on top? Will there be an elaborate patio and lovely little window-boxes filled with miniature flowers? Or will it be a simple cottage with dried straw thatching? Let your imagination guide you.

If you’re building a house (or houses) with children, give them a couple of different materials to work with, and let those determine the designs: you don’t want to break their hearts if they design a manor house that’s resplendent with acorns and glass pebbles, but all you have to work with are willow twigs and some dry leaves.

Step 2: Prepare the Structure

If your little house is going to have a door, you’ll probably want to cut one. An empty plastic bottle (or yogurt container, or what-have-you) can easily be cut with a pair of scissors, and you can add in any windows or bits that jut out. You can make a simple chimney with an old plastic film case or empty pill container—just glue it to the top of your house. If you think that a frog or toad may make a home inside it, keep the entranceway nice and wide: they like to peek out while they’re at home.

Step 3: Create the fairy garden

Now you can decorate your house with your natural objects, bark, leaves, and stick the moss onto the roof. Plant flowers, herbs and small plants around your house. Lay the path using the gravel or pebbles collected. Add crystals and shells along the path and around the house and garden. If you have any animals or fairies find them a lovely place in the garden too.

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