How to set up a spring fairy garden
by Laura Falin posted in Life & Home
I just realized both of my posts this week are about gardening (here's the other one). Can you tell I'm itching to get out there and play in the dirt" Here we don't plant most stuff until Mother's Day and I'm dying. Most years, I get suckered into planting something sooner than that, and then one last ugly snowstorm hits in early May and kills it dead. You think I'd learn...
So fairy gardens are great, because you can plant in containers. Put the container outside on nice days so the kids can play in the warmth and sunshine, bring 'em in if there's a storm or frost forecast so nothing freezes over (you can't leave the fairies out in the snow! Oh, the humanity!)
Because we wanted these to be portable, the containers are smaller than the one we used last fall. These are plastic bowls from the dollar store. And that's the beauty of fairy gardens -- you don't have to overthink them. Use what you have on-hand, or what the kids can find in their toy boxes or backyards.
We wrote on the rocks with a Sharpie paint pen, and after a winter outside, they still look pretty good. And we added a few glass rocks as well.
To start your own fairy garden you need:
a container (if it's going to be indoors, it can be small. Maybe a bowl like ours -- I've even seen teacup fairy gardens)
dirt or rocks to fill it
fairies or other figures to go in it (the kids can even use toy figurines, or plastic animals -- use your imagination!)
And then fi...
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