Creating a Fairy Garden is a great indoor and/or outdoor activity to do with your kids. It’s creative, and fun, plus it teaches kids about nature.

Spending time in my garden is one of my favorite things to do (except for writing, of course). While working in my garden, I got inspired to write the silly story about an important topic – letting wild life into our gardens. (The fun illustrations come from that book, Dorks On a Mission: The Wild Gardens.)

1. Plant a Fairy Garden in a pot

If planting a pot for the fairies, choose small-scale plants to fit everything into a small container. At the garden store, you will probably find moss and succulents to fill in your tub, which are super cute and easy to care for. Build a tiny house from wooden blocks, sticks or other materials you find in your garden. You could even use a tea pot or old Lego blocks. Decorate your garden with flowers, beautiful stones, and shells.

If you have a broken pot you can create an alluring fairy garden in it, this wonderful miniature garden charms every place “Broken Pot Fairy Garden”. You don’t need a full-fledged garden to keep it. It’s easy to make too, anybody with a creative mind can do this. How to Make Broken Pot Fairy Garden -instructions with photos.

2. Plant a meadow

Why limit yourself to a pot? Plant an entire meadow! When you do, it will attract bees and butterflies, making your garden into an even more magical place.

3. Create a miniature pond

Fairies need water to drink and bathe, too. Create a small pond for them in your Fairy Garden. A pot or another container with water will do. Birds, dragonflies, bees, and other creatures will love it, too. Maybe even frogs will show up to the party! Plus, you can plant a water lily and other beautiful plants as well.

4. Plant small fruit plants or miniature fruit trees

Fairies need to something eat. They may feast on flower nectar, but you may also plant a small fruit plant, like a wild strawberry, or a fruit tree. There are miniature fruit trees that can be planted even in the smallest spaces.

5. Invite your friends to Fairy Party

Have fun with your friends playing in your garden. Take photos or draw pictures, documenting what you’ve done.

6. Check out my book – Dorks on a Mission: The Wild Gardens

“Bea dreams of having a PRINCESS FAIRY OASIS in her backyard—where ONLY beautiful flowers, butterflies, ladybugs are allowed, and her best friends, Annika, Maya, and Zoe (but NO PESKY BUGS, ugly frogs, or annoying little boys).

The problem is that now her backyard looks nothing like it!

Now her garden is full of BUGS, WORMS, AND OTHER YUCKY CREATURES, plus overgrown grasses, disheveled bushes, and … a GINORMOUS COMPOST PILE in the middle of it all.

That is not a place for fairies or princesses, for sure!
(Only silly boys and dorks, who are into playing in dirt, maybe.)

So Bea makes a wish (and casts a spell with her magic stick) that all bugs should disappear from the face of the earth—or at least her neighborhood (except ladybugs, butterflies, and dragonflies, of course, because those can stay). But when she learns that the consequences of her wish may be more than she bargained for—she changes her mind.

Dressed in gardening outfits, that look like nothing a princess (or even a fairy) would wear, Bea and her friends get their hands dirty on a mission to create an OASIS for ALL CREATURES—even ugly bugs, worms, frogs (and boys).

These girls (and boys) may not look like fairies or princesses, more like GARDEN DORKS, but being a dork may not be such a bad thing after all.”

Dorks On a Mission: The Wild Gardens

Is a fun read for girls and boys ages 5-10, that teaches kids how to invite more nature into their lives, and inspires them to learn more about the wildlife just outside their window. Because even a simple meadow or a flower pot on the balcony or rooftop garden can be buzzing with life.

Buy the book now and enjoy this gardening with your kids. Happy reading and exploring!”

I came to love gardening, and believe that there’s a great joy in that. Not just growing pretty grass, beautiful flowers, neatly arranged on the patches, but all the messy plants (called weeds), and pesky bugs and animals (sometimes called pests). We can all benefit from watching the wildlife in our backyards!

Enjoy!

More Fairy Garden DIY Resources

There are TONS of resources online, as plenty of creative people have made and documented their magical wonderlands for all to enjoy. Here are some of my favorites:

How to Make Broken Pot Fairy Garden

The Magic Onions: How to make a Fairy Garden: Fabulous photos of an inspiring oak barrel garden.

Martha Stewart and Julie Andrews make an Indoor Fairyland (Text and 19 minute Video): This is not a hands-on garden, but seeing Martha and Julie work side-by-side is a pretty rare treat.

Flickr Group: Miniature Backyard Fairy Gardens: Holy cow, there’s a Flickr group dedicated to this very concept. Loads of ideas here. You can be next!

25 Enchanting DIY Fairy Garden Ideas for Your Backyard

Broken Pots Turned Into Brilliant DIY Fairy Gardens

So, how about you?

Do you like playing in your backyard with your kids?