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Printable fairy garden

May 29, 2019 By Kate 2 Comments

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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.

Easy fairy garden idea with kids. Printable door, windows and mushrooms to laminate and place in the garden #outdoorfun #fairies #fairygarden #printable #fairyprintable #fairycrafts #printablecrafts #gardeningwithkids #fairies

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!

Printable fairy garden steps. Cut out the door, windows and mushrooms and laminate them before placing in your outdoor fairy garden #outdoorfun #fairies #fairygarden #printable #fairyprintable #fairycrafts #printablecrafts #gardeningwithkids #fairies

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Place skewers on the back of the laminated mushrooms and poke them into the dirt in your fairy garden #outdoorfun #fairies #fairygarden #printable #fairyprintable #fairycrafts #printablecrafts #gardeningwithkids #fairies

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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

Quick and easy fairy garden idea with printable template #outdoorfun #fairies #fairygarden #printable #fairyprintable #fairycrafts #printablecrafts #gardeningwithkids #fairies

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!
© Kate
Project Type: gardening idea / Category: Printables

More outdoor gardening ideas with kids:

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

Printable fairy garden props for creating a decorative fairy garden. Printable template includes fairy door, windows and mushrooms to laminate and place in the garden. Perfect for a kids fairy party or just to create a fairy garden in Summer #outdoorfun #fairies #fairygarden #printable #fairyprintable #fairycrafts #printablecrafts #gardeningwithkids #fairies

 

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    Doris Gregory says

    June 24, 2019 at 2:26 pm

    I can’t wait to try this out with my grandchildren (six girls and one boy-15, 13, 12. 10, two 4 year olds, and and a year old-one boy, the rest girls). I think that they will all add something to the event. I also know where to get the fairies, too. Thank you so much for the idea. I have them all on Mondays through the summer.

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      Kate says

      June 25, 2019 at 7:19 am

      Fantastic! Hope you guys have fun, send me a pic of the finished garden 🙂

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