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17 Amazing Miniature Fairy Garden DIY Ideas You Will Love

Last Updated on August 12, 2020 by Duncan

DIY projects for the fairy garden are a fun thing to do with your children in your spare time. They are also a great addition to your outdoor space as they spark creativity and imagination in kids.

The best thing is there are no rules when it comes to building your own magical fairy playground.

You can add structures, broken pot pieces, flowers, plants, and anything you already have, to craft a magical place where fairies can roam and bring blessings to your home. 

Would you like to make your own gorgeous fairy garden? Use these DIY fairy garden ideas.

Miniature Fairy Garden

Let your skills and imagination flow. Fairies usually love birds, flowers, and all other stuff from nature.

 Craft your own state-of-the-art landscape using pea gravel, mini marbles, wooden sticks, and more. You can even tailor the miniature garden to suit your personal style.

Rock Fairy Garden

Rocks make a good base for the fairy garden and make it look cool. To make a rocky fairy garden, use an old wooden bucket and tiny watering can as a fairy home. Do not skip placing mushrooms on the side of the garden. 

Fairy House and Garden

Use wooden crates, unfinished birdhouses, decorative stones, wood slices, small artificial flowers, moss mat, and fairy garden accessories to craft awesome fairy house and garden. 

While choosing stones for the sides, remember the flatter is much better. The best thing about a fairy house and garden is that you can enjoy it during the summer season and beyond.

Miniature Flower Pot Fairy Garden

Use the basic supplies, few plants, and a couple of planters to craft a multi-level fairy garden. 

Bring life to your mini garden by building whimsical scenes with mini fairy accessories like Miniature Garden Bench, Mini Wooden Ladder, Sitting Frog, Dragonfly Pick, and Black Decorative Gems.

Furthermore, when choosing soil, pay attention to the plant selection. It is because different plants need different soil conditions.

Simply fill three diverse sizes of pots with small plants, organic potting soil, and decorative rocks. Build wooden steps using cut birch logs.

Tip: Use outdoor sealer mainly made to guard wood and coat your wooden accessories with it. It will protect it from outside elements.

Broken Pot Fairy Garden

Convert a broken flower pot into an adorable fairy garden. It helps you to use damaged garden pots to good use in your yard. 

You can add fairy accessories, small stepping stones, and a lot of plants to make this look more striking and add life to them. Use tiny pieces of the broken pot to craft a lovely staircase.

Tip: Hire Artificial Grass Installation Belmont services to make your minute fairy garden look more appealing.

Birdhouse Fairy Garden

For this, you just need two intricate birdhouses to convert a simple flower pot into an impressive fairy garden. You can add small details like a ‘welcome’ sign on the birdhouse to make it more welcoming.

DIY clock made from the parts of the old watch and a tiny twig ladder also makes your garden look cool.

Fairy Garden Pedestal

To make fairy garden pedestal, you will require fairy garden buildings, planter trolley, succulent soil, and mini terracotta pots.

Also, use shards to make a small walkway to the front door. It will transform the planter box into beauty in no time.

Planter Box Fairy Garden

To make a nice Planter Box Fairy Garden you can use dried pods, wooden house, small terracotta pot, terra cotta tray, and anything you like. For better finishing touches, add a small bird to birdhouse and flowers.

You can buy a wooden house or make your own using birch plywood from cutmyplastic.co.uk.

Pinecone Roof Fairy House

Pinecone adds a perfect touch to the fairy garden. You can use it to craft a shingle roof. In fact, it’s also good to use birdhouse gourds if you want to add a creative spin. This awesome home will make any fairy feel welcome.

Fairy Tree House

If you’ve got a big tree in your garden or backyard, use the roots to make a magical getaway for the fairies. The nice thing is that it is simple and affordable to create.

Fairy Garden Tree Stump

Turn natural and upcycle materials to make a fairy garden tree stump. You can include your kids into the project and ask them how they would create a garden.

Finally, include their ideas into the design. Go for a nature scavenger hunt for decorating your fairy garden tree stump. Use rocks, special twigs, and sticks to make it look more interesting.

Fairy Door Clay Pot Planter

Upcycle an earthen pot into an adorable fairy door clay pot planter using pebbles, small river rocks moss, a fairy door, toadstools, and other small fairy tools.

You could even use wooden discs or bench to make paths for fairies to enter the home.

Planter Fairy Garden

For a magical planter fair garden, simply grab three flower pots and wooden sticks. Bundle sticks together with thin wire and make beautiful walkways for the fairy. After that, link each level for an outdoor fairy garden.

Backyard Patio Fairy Garden

 You can make your own cute backyard Patio theme Fairy Garden using garden furniture, small water feature, and planters.

 Fairy Garden in the Woods

 You can even create an outdoor fairy garden in the woods. Add Miniature Street light and use pebbles and rocks for the walkway.

 Bird Bath Fairy Garden

Grab Fairy Garden House, Bird Bath, Potting Soil, plants, Moss Sheet, Decorative Rock & Gems to build DIY Bird Bath Fairy Garden. Small wells, Miniature mushrooms, and little fairies also make great additions.

Stone Fairy House

 Make adorable Stone Fairy House with the miniature cottage, stepping-stones, fish pond, fire pit, chairs, and few fair figurines. You can use one planter base for the garden.

 

Wrapping Up:

No matter how small or big, a DIY fairy garden surely adds fun to your landscape, mainly if you love gardening and dream, of mystical landscapes adorned with fairies.

Most of the designs are easy to create, but the more details you add to the project, the more beautiful it becomes.  

Use what you like and have fun with your imagination to lure fairies. Story-telling and fairy garden scenery will bring out the playful kid in you.

By following the above-mentioned miniature fairy garden DIY ideas, you will experience the blissful feeling of having your dreams come true.

On my 15th birthday, I became the designated gardener in my home.

Now at 32, I have a small garden and every day I'm out trying different plants and seeing how they grow. I grow guavas, peaches, onions, and many others. Want to know more about me? Read it here.

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