How to Make a Fairy House in your Garden

As you go for your walks with your children, you can find beautiful things that nature has cast aside, such as acorns, large oak leaves and bark. As you walk, gather them up and bring them home and make your very own fairy house in your garden.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Acorns
• Bark
• Leaves
• Stones

1. 
   Fairy House under Oleander

   Find a location in your garden, in a shaded corner or under the canopy of a tree for example, for your fairy house. Make sure there is shade for the house for most of the day.

2. 
   Fairy House

   Build your house by using the tree trunk for stability. You can put forked twigs vertically into the ground at each corner and lay a horizontal twig into the fork across them so that it will hold a roof made of bark or you can make the whole house of bark. You can also use lots of twigs and place them closely together to form the walls.

3. 
   Fairy House

   You can also build a house by turning a broken planter pot upside down,like the one shown in the picture. Place moss over all of it and some tree bark on the top as the roof. Add twigs and fallen leaves and blossoms from plants. I added a few butterflies that I bought from the store.

4. 
   Fairy House

   Begin decorating the inside of the house with a large rock for a table and acorns for chairs. Add fern and moss for a bed. Use little pebbles to make a path and pine cones at the entrance to the path. Put on your roof made of moss or bark and then add a few miniature items outside. If you do not have any moss, you can purchase some from a craft store. There is no wrong or right way to do it, just use your imagination and think of other ways you can use found objects.

5. 
   Berries

   Leave fairy food, such as berries and check back often. Tradition says, when the food is gone, the fairies have found the house.

[woodsusa]

on 6/12/2009 This is such a sweet idea! My daughter just knows we have fairies at the bottom of our garden...she will love this project!