GARDENER BUZZ
Fairy Garden Supplies
To buy or not to buy your fairy garden accessories may be one question you have when you make a fairy garden. Following are some thoughts that may help you decide what you want to include in your fairy garden.
What style of fairy garden supplies do you want? Do you want it to blend in as much as possible in order to look like the natural world? Then, it may be better for you to create little additions for the garden that you can make from materials easily found outdoors. Do you like things a little more “obvious” with colorful fun details? Then, you may want to think about purchasing a fairy house or two, perhaps a couple of fairy doors and a cute bridge to cross a little stream. We use a combination of the two. We love some of the little fairy doors and fairy houses, so we purchased a couple of those, but made a couple of doors, bridges and chairs from materials we have outside.
How much should be included in your fairy garden? This will largely depend upon the size of your fairy garden. If you’re creating a container fairy garden, you may only have room for a small house or bench. If you’ve decided to make a larger fairy garden, you will want to look at your plan and decide the best placement for furniture or other décor. Remember that sometimes more is not better. It helps to give the eyes a chance to travel easily from place to place and take in all that you’ve created by not overcrowding your fairy garden.
How big will the furniture or décor be? Again, this really depends on the size of your fairy garden. If it’s a container, having a chair eight inches tall and four inches wide may look out of place. If you are making some of your décor, say a bridge, you may want to try different sizes of twigs and branches to see what looks best to you. Fairy garden supplies that you are looking to purchase will have measurements. Be sure to check what size they are because there are some benches or fairies that may be as big as two feet tall and it’s hard to tell in the photos provided. It would difficult to try to fit that into the six inch spot you had intended it for.
Cost?When you make a fairy garden, it can be created with wonderful and artistic fairy garden supplies that can be purchased from talented artisans or box stores. Take for example fairy houses - there are so many intricate and delightful fairy houses out there. However, you can also create much of what you would like in your fairy garden at very little cost. So, you will just need to consider what you can afford, how creative you feel like being, and how quickly you would like the fairy garden to go together.
How much time do you have?If you are busy and have the means, then you may want to purchase some of the items that would be harder to make and would add a special touch to your fairy garden, but keep in mind that when you make a fairy garden it’s always special to create things with your own hands, too – if that is something you enjoy.
So…let’s get started! Onward for some fabulous fairy garden supplies…
First, we’re going to give some ideas about how you can make things for different parts of a fairy garden. Then, we’re going to show some fairy furniture and décor that you can buy along with the source. And…finally, we will be creating a Fairy Garden Video Series that will show some hands-on examples of how to make some special fairy garden items. Check back for that!!
FAIRY GARDEN IDEAS
FAIRY DOORS
A piece of bark can be fashioned into a fairy door very easily by attaching a rock, pinecone or other small object as a doorknob. Use either hot glue or wire.
Find several twigs (the number will depend on how big around the twigs are and the size you want for your door). Use some wire to wire them together with two twigs going horizontally to keep them straight.
Search for a rock that could be used as a door. Flatter, more rectangular or oval rocks look more like a “standard” door, but look with a creative eye because you may find a rock that would work great that is an odd shape.
Like this one...
Paint on a door knob
Or just glue on a rock.
and presto a fairy door!
Collect a bunch of small stones and glue them to a piece of wood as a sort of collage.
FAIRY HOUSES
Small old bird houses serve well as fairy houses.
Old flower pots turned upside down with either a door painted on it or a hole cut into the side works well. Adorn further with fun things on top (or the bottom of the pot in this case) like moss, stones, even a small solar light.
If you want to spend the time, building a stone house is possible. It’s best to have a form such as a small milk carton or pieces of wood nailed (or glued) together. Then, glue the stones to create a stone fairy house.
Make one Similar to the stone fairy house idea above, but use twigs or bark.
If you like to paint or would like to try, find a rock in a house-ish shape and paint it into a house.
Large sand dollars make cute houses.
Canning jars or other unusual jars set on their sides filled with moss, twigs, etc.
FAIRY CHAIRS
Chairs can be so simple. Look for the perfect fairy sitting rock.
A limb that is anywhere from one to two inches, or even three inches, cut flat works great pushed into the soil. The only difficulty is getting a fairly straight cut for the seat if the limb gets too big for pruners or loppers.
Or along the same thought, use two limbs pushed into the soil a few inches apart and another limb across the two.
A pinecone facing upside down and pushed just slightly into the soil makes a cute fairy chair.
A fun chair is to get a very small bowl or pot turn it upside down and use it as is…or put a wired row of twigs across it for something a little different.
A fun bench can be made out of two rocks on the side and one long one in the middle.
FAIRY TABLES
Again, a rock can serve as a great table (imagine with little stones around it like little chairs!).
Find a teacup and saucer. If you don’t have one a garage sale or thrift store is a good place to look. And…if you don’t care if they match, you can usually get a saucer for as little as .25 cents and a cup for the same or a few cents more. Turn the teacup upside down and the saucer right side up, so you can see the pretty design on it (if there is some). A little bit of glue between the cup and saucer will help to hold it in place.
Find a limb for a pedestal. Then glue or nail a little larger, but flatter limb for the top. Like the one below.
OTHER FAIRY GARDEN FURNITURE and SUPPLIES
Bridges
Twigs and sticks placed over pebbles like a dry river bed. Wire or glue together.
One large limb that has a bend it in like a bridge.
A large, long stone or several stones like stepping stones across an area
Fences and Gates
Wire or glue several twigs together with two horizontal twigs to stabilize them. This could
be used for a fence or gate depending upon the size.
Little stones and rocks make adorable fences!
Fairy Funneries…
Thimbles open side up with a seedling growing in it.
Shells for bowls.
Sand and pebbles for walkways or riverbeds
Marbles set on thimbles for gazing balls.
Small twinkle lights for fairy lights
Now for some of our favorite fairy garden supplies online:
Fairy Garden Video Series
Soon we will be adding our fairy garden video series that will show hands-on, step-by-by, directions to make some of the fairy garden ideas above! So be sure to check back often or join our email list.
We hope find great enjoyment working with these fun fairy garden supplies as you make a fairy garden. They do wonders to bring a smile to the face, a song to the lips and peace to the heart.
