This printable fairy garden craft was originally published in 2013 and has been updated and reshared for you today

It’s so easy to make a fairy garden with this printable fairy garden template!

This makes a fun addition to a fairy party (which was what I originally designed it for) and also just an any-time-of year fairy garden to entice the kids outdoors to play.

The year my daughter turned four the one thing she wanted most in the world was a fairy party. You only turn four once, so I decided to give her this wish.

One of the party decorations I created for the occasion was a printable fairy garden.

You can buy beautiful outdoor fairy garden accessories on ETSY and even at most department stores nowadays, but I mainly wanted the decorations for one day only and printing and laminating them at home turned out to be a very economical and easy way to set one up.

I knew I wouldn’t have time immediately before the party to set up a garden, so I put this together a couple of weeks beforehand.

The props have all been laminated (hence the glare in the photographs) but they lasted really well, and by the time the party came around the flowers I’d planted were in full bloom too. Our fairy garden drew many comments from the party guests.

I printed out two sets of the props and stuck one to a tree (with no garden surrounding it) in another part of our back yard, to create more of a a fairy-world atmosphere.

After the party we decided we liked the garden too much to pull it out and it ended up lasting for well over a year (or it could have even been two – I’m a pretty slack gardener!), which completely exceeded my expectations. When we finally pulled the decorations out it was because we wanted to revamp the garden, not because they needed to be pulled out at all.

How to make a printable fairy garden

You will need:

• The printable template – receive this as a free gift when you sign up to our VIP newsletter via the form above
• Light card stock to print it out on
• Scissors
• Laminator – or you could also pay get it laminated at Officeworks or similar. If your party is indoors you don’t need to laminate, you can just stick the printables to the wall with painters tape
• Wooden skewers
• Double sided tape or duct tape
• Something to attach the door and windows to the tree. Initially I used rolled up pieces of masking tape. This is fine if you plan on pulling the decorations down at the end of the day, but to have a garden which lasts a bit longer use thumbtacks.
• Optional fairy garden statue – I purchased mine from the local dollar store

How to:

1. Print your fairy garden template out onto light card stock
2. Cut out the shapes
3. Laminate the shapes
4. Attach bamboo skewers to the back of the toadstools with either duct tape or double sided tape
5. Put them in the garden – use thumbtacks to stick the door and windows to the tree or looped masking tape (painters tape) if you don’t want to put thumbtacks in your tree. Poke the toadstools into the soil in places where they look good.
6. Optional – add a fairy statue if you have one, but we all know fairies are very shy anyway don’t we!

The fairy printables really added to the magical fairy atmosphere on the day, and they added that special touch to our garden treasure hunt at the end of the party too.

Yield: 1 garden

Printable fairy garden

Print

Use this printable template to create a decorative outdoor fairy garden.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Active Time 15 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Difficulty easy

Materials

• The printable template
• Wooden skewers
• Double sided tape or duct tape
• Masking tape or thumbtacks
• Optional fairy garden statue – I purchased mine from the local dollar store

Tools

• Laminator
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Print your fairy garden template out. I've printed it to light card stock but since it's being laminated it probably won't matter if you just use ordinary paper
2. Cut out the shapes
3. Laminate the shapes
4. Attach bamboo skewers to the back of the toadstools with either duct tape or double sided tape
5. Put them in the garden – use thumbtacks to stick the door and windows to the tree or looped masking tape (painters tape) if you don't want to put thumbtacks in your tree. Poke the toadstools into the soil in places where they look good.
6. Optional – add a fairy statue if you have one, but we all know fairies are very shy anyway don't we!

More outdoor gardening ideas with kids:

• Fairy garden small world
• Potted dinosaur succulent garden
• Australian animal succulent garden
• Easy frog habitat garden