This DIY Fairy Garden Craft is simple to make and a great way to get kids outdoors while working on fine motor skills and storytelling.
And the best part? You don’t need to go out and buy fancy fairy garden kits. You can DIY it with a few simple materials—some of which you might already have at home.
Why You’ll Love This Fairy Garden Craft
- Encourages Imaginative Play – Kids will love creating tiny fairy worlds, adding their own stories, and making little fairies or animals “live” in their garden.
- Hands-On Learning – This craft is a great mix of creativity and nature play. It introduces kids to gardening concepts while allowing them to design and decorate their magical space.
- Completely Customizable – Want a pink and purple fairy garden? Go for it. More of a woodland vibe? Add some pinecones! There are no rules, just fun.
Materials You’ll Need
- Wooden birdhouse (this will be your fairy house!)
- Garden paint (for decorating your fairy house)
- Paintbrush
- Flower pot (or a shallow container to build your fairy garden)
- Soil
- Flowers (real or fake—whatever you prefer!)
- Moss (for that soft, magical touch)
- Rocks (for a mini fairy pathway)
- Pink gemstones (for sparkle and fairy magic)
- Fake butterflies (because every fairy garden needs some winged friends!)
How to Make Your DIY Fairy Garden
- Paint the Fairy House: Start by painting your wooden birdhouse in any colors you like! You can go pastel, bright and bold, or even keep it simple with natural tones. Add patterns like polka dots, swirls, or little flowers. Let it dry completely before adding details.
- Prepare the Flower Pot: Fill your flower pot or shallow container with soil. This will be the base of your fairy garden. If you’re using real flowers, make a small hole and gently plant them in the soil. If you’re using fake flowers, simply poke them into the dirt.
- Add Moss & Pathway Rocks: Arrange the moss around your fairy house to create a soft and cozy space for the fairies to rest. Line up small rocks or pebbles to form a little pathway leading up to the house.
- Decorate with Fairy Magic: Place pink gemstones around the garden to make it sparkle. Add fake butterflies by attaching them to small sticks or placing them on the house and flowers. You can even sprinkle a little glitter to give your garden an extra magical touch!
- Let Your Kids Play & Imagine: Once everything is set up, encourage your child to create fairy stories. They can bring in small figurines, make up names for their fairies, or add more natural elements like twigs and leaves.
Play2Learn Toddler & Preschool Programs for Curious Toddlers
There is no limit to your toddler’s energy and curiosity. That energy and curiosity although a joy can be challenging at times. Their interest in just about everything around them is what makes them great learners. One and two year olds can soak up so much just from their senses!
But as a teacher or parent that thirst for learning can be exhausting. That is why I created this toddler and preschooler program. To help you get the most out of this time with your curious toddler without having to come up with creative ways to play and interact with them.
Play2Learn for Toddlers includes 20 Units for toddlers. Each 2-week toddler unit has 20 super easy to set up and engaging activities for toddlers 18 months to 3 years.
Play2Learn Preschool which includes 20 Units for preschoolers. Each 2-week preschoolers unit has 20 unique and easy to set up and engaging activities for preschoolers 3 years to 5 years. That’s over 800 learning activities for your toddler and preschooler at your fingertips! So many ideas you and your child will never be bored again!
These toddler and preschool lesson plans and activities will definitely keep you and your toddler and preschooler busy playing and learning!
Click here for more information: Play2Learn
Book: Exciting Sensory Bins for Curious Kids
Did you know I wrote a book of sensory bins? Click here for more information Exciting Sensory Bin for Curious Kids. Or grab your copy at Amazon.
Boring afternoons are made exciting with awesome animal-based bins, like Salty Shark Bay or Yarn Farm. Pretend play bins like Birthday Cake Sensory Play or Bubble Tea Party encourage creativity and imagination. And your kids will have so much fun they won’t even know they’re getting smarter with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) activities like Sink or Float Soup, Magnetic Letter Hunt or Ice Cream Scoop and Count.
Designed for toddlers 18 months and up.
Book: Super STEAM Activity Book for Kids
Learning all about science, technology, engineering, art, and math sets kids up for scholastic success―and it can be so much fun! Watch kids enjoy building STEAM skills as they color friendly fish, help water find its way to tree roots, solve math problems with mazes, and more.
Find out more and grab your copy here.
Designed for preschoolers 3 years old and up.
Book: Big Book of Riddles for Kids
Riddle me this: What’s an exciting way to practice critical thinking while having a blast? The Big Riddle Book for Kids, of course! From hilarious puns to tough brain teasers, kids can build problem-solving skills with hundreds of riddles tha. t show them how to think outside the box.
- 350 riddles for kids—Have hours of fun with riddles, puns and jokes, and math and logic puzzles that’ll get their wheels turning!
- Level up their skills—Riddles get trickier as kids progress through the book, challenging them as they get better at solving puzzles!
- Double-check their work—Kids can check their answers in the back of the book with a handy answer key.
Help children expand their minds while having fun with this puzzle book for kids!
Designed for kids ages 6 years old and up.
TV Show: Curious Crafting
I’m so excited to share my crafting TV show Curious Crafting which launched in July 2022 on TVOkids and TVOkids YouTube! Season 2 aired in August 2023! My show was also nominated in 2023 for Best Live Action Preschool Series by the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence.
Curious Crafting Season 1 is also now airing in Australia on ABC! Watch it here!
Set in the ultimate crafting space, Curious Crafting is a short form pre-school age series about the joy of making crafts. I lead a rotating cast of adorable little preschoolers (including my own) making magic out of common household objects.
In each episode we transform recycled items into magical crafts like a milk carton school bus, paper bag puppet or cotton pad turtle. The crafters learn and laugh their way through each activity while demonstrating what their young imaginations can create.
Curious Crafting shares the adventure and joy of making art with takeaway lessons for creating crafts at home.
This show designed for toddlers and preschoolers 2.5 years old and up.
