How to Build the Perfect Fairy Garden

HOW TO BUILD THE PERFECT FAIRY GARDEN – WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW HOW AND DON’T WANT TO SPEND A FORTUNE.

I didn’t know this was a thing until I was at work and the girl I was training showed me her MANY fairy gardens. She was talking about making one for her desk…ok lady! Whatever floats your boat! But then I saw the pictures and I thought…I know where one of those would look amazing. And what a great craft for me and the kids to do!!!

There are plenty of big box craft stores that have fairy garden accessories but I didn’t want to spend $12 for a deer…🤷🏻‍♀️

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I went to my local Dollar Tree and struck GOLD!

I found the container, moss, rocks, plants, and all the trinkets a fairy garden could want. All for $1 a piece! $13 for the whole thing! Sorry box stores…

Since I had no idea what I was doing, I asked my girls what they thought we should do.

First, I had them draw their ideas out on paper, I wish I grabbed a picture of those! Ultimately, everyone said ‘cute and cuddly place that fairies would want to hang out.’ Ok…I pretended to understand this and went to work.

Off we went, to make our perfect fairy garden

I used one bag of rocks to fill the container but it wasn’t enough so I opened the second bag and added about 1/3 of the new bag. Much better!

I added one bag of moss which was plenty.

We removed the plants from the cheesy planters they came with and revealed a stick. Using that stick, we stuck the plants through the moss and rock.

The ‘welcome’ sign stayed perfectly between the plants. I didn’t glue anything!

Our next idea was to create a pathway for the fairies to sit in the leaf chairs that were going to sit on either side of the welcome sign. Thank goodness we had more rocks! We lined the walkway with rocks and decided the mailbox belonged at the end of the walkway.

A raccoon and fox hung out waiting for our fairy to arrive. The turtle sat under the welcome sign showing her bright pink flower.

Today our fairy garden sits at the top of our stairs with our family scrabble letters.

I have left over pieces that I will probably add to another garden someday. I had so much fun making this with the girls, I understand what the crazy lady was raving about at work!

Happy fairy hunting,