Fairies Live Here – Making Fairy Gardens with the Castle Keeper Girls

I’ve always loved miniature things. When I was a little girl I had a dollhouse and it was more fun to see the small pieces of furniture than it was to actually play with. Then there are the American Girl dolls and all their accessories. So, so cute. I love miniature versions of their larger counterparts and that’s probably why I was so drawn to the idea of our Castle Keeper girls putting together a fairy garden for one of their monthly challenges.

To put together their fairy garden they would need some type of container, soil, and small plants such as mosses, grass, alyssum or succulents… but they were limited in what could be purchased for accessories. Ninety-five percent of  their accessories had to be made by them.  And that’s where their creativity came in as well as the cuteness factor. 🙂

I just loved what the girls did and wanted to show their little gardens to you.

This girls fairy garden house was made out of a squash with ficus leaves placed over the top for a roof. I love her little swimming pool made from a tupperware container and rimmed with rocks. The chair was from a lemon peel and the rug made from leaves.

One cut out the pages from a book for her fairy garden.

This is the fairy garden my daughter Serenity put together. I loved her little walkway, birdhouse and swing. The birdhouse was made from clay that hardens when you bake it in the oven. She placed the stick into the birdhouse before she baked it.

This fairy garden was made using a log in the yard. Isn’t the socks on the clothesline so cute?

I love the coziness of this miniature home. Notice the bench. So cute.

A butterfly painter’s garden.

My daughter, Audrey (age 9) made this fairy garden and had so much fun putting it all together.

A Lego tire used for a swing.

A small arbor under which is a garden of carrots made from clay you bake in the oven.

A table made from popsicle sticks with tomatoes placed on it.

And in the last picture it shows the chair she made from twigs.

I loved her little pennant banner. You can’t read it because it’s blurred but the sign says, “No trespassing. Violators will be prosecuted.”

I loved seeing how each girl put their own creative spin on their project.