Last week, I was privileged to have my two Oklahoman grandkids here for the week. Several days of that week, I also had my other grandson here, who lives here in town. One of the things we did was making Fairy Gardens. They turned out to be a great success. I will share with you the steps we took to make them.
How to Make A Fairy Garden
You will need:
- a shallow container of some kind to put your garden in. (I used a large base for flower pots.)
- a few small rocks to put in the bottom of the dish
- Enough dirt to fill the container most of the way
- Little fairies, mushrooms and tiny houses (I ordered a kit plus other things from Amazon.)
- A few small plants to add trees to the garden. (I used moss)
- Excited children
DIRECTIONS:
If you are doing this on a table, cover it with newspaper. Put containers on top of table. Add containers of fairies and houses, etc.
Add rocks to bottom of containers.
Add soil to almost the top of the container. We added a little sand to the soil.
Plant small plants in soil. We used the moss. (Be careful! After they sat on the table all night, we had ants coming out that had been in the moss plants.)
Place small houses, trees, mushrooms, people, bridges, boats, fairies in the container, wherever the child wants. (The wings were not attached to the fairies, when we got them. I suspect a little dab of super glue would have solved that. However, I had non-particular children so we just laid them out there.)
Sprinkle the moss with water.
Enjoy! My grandson has his on his front porch, and he plays with it, rearranging it, every day.
Have you made Fairy Gardens? What did you put in them? Let me know what you think in the comments .
Grandma Ruddell