Magical Fairy Gardens Fun for Kids and Adults

Magical Fairy Gardens are fun for kids and adults alike. My family has been busy making fairy gardens with the kids this summer as well as my mom and aunt.  Fairies are magical and any kid young or old will enjoy dreaming up a magical place for a fairy to land.   You may not be able to make all of their dreams come true, but you can create a fairy garden for your little princess or prince to play in by using their imaginations and a little bit of fairy magic.

For our fairy gardens we have been using  small container gardens but you could plant them in the corner of the garden if you wanted to or even around the base of a tree would work perfectly.  They are easy to make and all turn out super cute with a little bit of imagination and work.  All it takes is the belief that fairies do exist and your children will be in love with their fairy garden all summer long.

Many people think that butterflies are fairies in disguise, so you may want to plant a garden that would interest butterflies. What would a garden for butterflies look like? It would have beautiful, brightly colored flowers that drip with nectar. Of course, fairies and butterflies both agree that variety is the spice of life, so you’ll want to plant many kinds of flowers for them to choose from.

Don’t stress out if your fairy garden isn’t pristine; in fact, they like finding flat rocks in the garden so they have some place to warm their wings in the bright sunshine. They also prefer a spot, in direct sunlight, that is sheltered from the wind where they hide and find as a sanctuary.

Fairies and butterflies also like to take a dip on occasion, so providing a shallow bowl or saucer near their sunning rock will be a big plus. Besides, if you have a water element in your fairy garden, their little birdie friends can come to visit them. Be careful, however, to keep everything as natural as possible. Pesticides and insecticides can hurt any visitors to the garden. You may also want to be aware if any pottery has lead in its glaze as it could be harmful.

Here are some good flowers choices for your fairy garden. Fairies and butterflies seem to be partial to them: Lily of the Valley, Pansies, Queen Ann’s Lace, Roses, Violets, Lilac, Nasturtium, Snapdragons, Baby’s Breath, Butterfly Bush, Columbine, Forget-met-not, Buttercup, Periwinkle, and Heather. Don’t forget to include natural materials such as twigs, shells, and small rocks to add interest to the fairy garden and for the fairies to use to build a home.

You can decorate the fairy garden with small wooden houses to create a fairy village complete with fences made of twigs stuck into the ground. Use small pebbles as a walking path for them to saunter through the village. Let the child in you dream with your daughter or son as you create a wonderful place for them to dream and use their imagination. This magical make-believe fairy garden can be a special place you’ll both want to visit as long as you both believe.

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