Fairy Garden

by Erika Hixson

11 Materials

$10

5 Hours

Easy

I really wanted to make a fairy garden but didn’t want to buy anything. I just looked around the house to see what I had and with a little help from my husband‘s model train layout, I was able to add people and animals. Maybe the next time I will go get some gnomes and Fairies 🧚‍♀️.

i was tidying up around the house and had this blue plastic basin of sorts that I never knew what to do with. I decided that this would be my first fairy garden pot. I didn’t like the medical look of the blue tub so I put it in a basket I had lying around too!

i put some perlite in the bottom for drainage. Filled the rest with peat moss. Decided that i liked the interesting form of the good luck plant and set that in first.

I looked around my house for a cute little house and saw this cottage on the bookshelf. I thought, “why not?”. A little touch up paint to hide the flat bookend and it totally looks cool.

After setting the house and adding the sand and colored glass, I wanted people and asked my husband if he had any to spare from his train room. Then I was like,”grass!” And went to peel up some frozen PA moss from the cracks in my sidewalk.

im happy with how my first fairy garden came out. I still left the Christmas bow on the plant cause it’s pretty. I will probably hot glue some flat rocks to cover the blue edge or the basin.

It took me the better part of my Sunday but it was totally worth it!!