As soon as the sun is out, it is a great time to help you figure out how to make fairy garden furniture and fairy houses that you can put in your fairy garden or yes: indoors.
Also, in the meantime, I have made much more fairy garden stuff myself and learned along the way, and have found sooo many extra ideas, that sometimes I get lost in this world...
So let's get my thoughts in order and write you an expansive list of all the things that you can create for your fairies :-).
Buckle up, it is going to be another long tutorial!
But First: What Materials Do You Need to make Fairy Garden furniture and fairy houses?
The answer to this question can be quite comprehensive, depending on which things you want to create, so I made separate paragraphs and hope this will make it clear.
Put A Fairy Garden In A Container Or In Your Garden?
That is totally up to you!
- , I have created my fairy garden in my real garden, so I just used the soil that was already there and added little plants over time.
In summer, I already had plants growing around my little garden and those slowly kept growing around my fairy garden.
In this extensive list of small plants, you might find the ones suitable for your garden.
- But if you want a container for your fairy garden, then of course you need:
- A container. This can be anything: an old wheelbarrow, (large) plant pots, an old aquarium, to even an old bathtub, for example.
Anything you can think of that holds soil and water.- Potting soil
- Small plants
Which Materials Do You Need To Create Pathways, Rivers, Fences, etc, In Your Fairy Garden?
A little list of things that you could use:
- a variety of stones
- slices of wood (I cut mine with my table saw)
- gravel (aquarium gravel works well)
- blue glass stones to create a river
- bark that has been cut into pieces
- sheet moss (in a craft store or on Amazon)
- popsicle sticks or wooden craft sticks for the fences (plus paint and varnish if putting outside)
What Do You Need To Create Fairy Houses?
This is kind of a hard question for me, as there is a lot of variety in how people create fairy houses.
But below is a little list of things you might need, and we will dive deeper into this further down this article in my list of ideas!
- a tree stump that looks whimsical or a tree that has been cut down in your garden. (no need to cut a tree down on purpose for a fairy garden haha!)
- I have used wooden laser-cut fairy houses-kits that I just needed to decorate and make them my own.
- an old plastic bucket that you no longer use
- Strong glue
- Acrylic spray sealer (if placed outside) or Mod Podge (outdoors)
- Someone on Etsy makes fairy houses with seashells and sand!
- stones or pebbles for decoration or to actually build fairy houses
- sometimes people make fairy houses from metal
- Lots of times fairy houses are made from