DIY Mini Fairy Garden

/
 
 

Our latest craft class was a mini fairy garden!!

The fairy garden Mary and I made for this project is probably still on our dining room table as you’re reading this weeks/months/years later; I just can’t get enough of it. It’s probably my favorite thing right now. So cute. Pretty sure I like it more than Mary does.

I also love this project as a class, primarily because everyone’s finished fairy garden will look completely different, and they all start with the same supplies; I love the creativity. Secondarily, they use a lot of random supplies that I happen to have in my craft closet, which is a win for me, and for everyone else, because this stuff is pretty!
[Side note, if you make a fairy garden from the guide below (with or without my kit), send me a picture!!]

I’m just gonna get right into it -

First of all, the kit - there’s more in the kit than you need for the garden, but I wanted everyone to have options, and I have a seemingly endless supply of some of this stuff, so you benefit from my craft supply hoarding.

What’s in The Kit:

  • A 4” pot, either a hedgehog or turtle

  • Paintbrush

  • 2 black rocks to paint as decoration

  • Dirt

  • Fairy garden moss

  • Artist’s choice of a fairy or gnome

  • Other fairy garden embellishments - glass pebbles, either blue or green abalone pieces, a marble, a “gemstone”

  • An antique jewelry piece

Not included:

  • Paint

  • Hot glue

  • Succulent

Assemble!!!
I’ll tell you how I made mine, but with the supplies in the kit, this is where the creative magic happens.

  1. Paint the pot. I had a hedgehog for mine, and decided less is more - I painted some of the “hair” metallic bronze, some of it purple, and some white mixed with purple. I used the same metallic paint for the eyes.

  2. Once the pot dries, pack it with dirt. Really pack it in there good so it acts like a “floor”.

  3. I used blue abalone as a “wall” or barrier:

    1. I laid it out loosely in the dirt by placing the pieces on their edge in a line

    2. Then I took the pieces out one by one and hot glued them together

    3. Then I pushed my “wall” back into the dirt, making sure it was deep enough to stay in place

    4. Lastly, I fixed the dirt around the wall

  4. I used the blue glass pebbles as “water” inside my abalone wall:

    1. I just placed them, didn’t glue them

  5. I used the moss on the other side of the abalone wall:

    1. A little moss goes a long way, so I stretched it out and laid it down like grass on the dirt.

    2. Note that trying to glue the moss to the dirt is futile since….it’s dirt

    3. You could glue the moss to the inside of the pot, but i didn’t find this to be necessary

  6. I played with the placement of the black rocks, gnome, and antique jewelry a lot. Took a while to find the arrangement I liked, but once I found it, there it was!

    1. I glued the gnome to the inside of the pot where I wanted him to stay put (sorry gnomey, no wandering)

    2. I painted a tree on one of the rocks, and glued that to the inside of the pot too

    3. I placed the antique jewelry piece next to the gnome and glued it in place

  7. I used the white glass pebbles as stepping stones across the moss:

    1. I placed these “upside down” on the moss so the flat side was up

    2. I hot glued these to the moss

  8. I fixed the dirt and moss so it looked nice

  9. Then, I put it on full display in the middle of my dining room table!