Fairy gardens are both enchanting and engaging. Making one is a fun activity and a perfect way to embrace spring with your children.
Children can learn about plants, life, and growth. And spring planting! They can learn getting their hands dirty can be fun. And fairy gardens are a fairy-fantastic way to be creative. You can make your fairy garden as little or as big as you wish.
After all, fairies, imps, and sprites are teeny-tiny!
Light
Consider the amount of light the garden will receive—shade or sun, or something between. My fairy garden gets more shade than sun, so I added ferns and caladiums—plants that will thrive with tiny amounts of sun.
Plants
You can use any plant or flower for your fairy garden. It is your special place (and your fairies!), so plan your garden as you wish. As mentioned, I use ferns, vines, and shade plants, like Creeping Jenny.
Containers
Your fairy garden can be anything from a terracotta pot to a raised bed to an old birdbath. I use an old birdbath my parents gave me. It had cracks in it and would no longer hold water, so waaalaa—a fairy garden paradise!
Add the magic
Fairies will need some entertainment and perhaps a place to dwell.
The cherry on the top of your fairy garden is the small items such as gates, a picket fence, swings, and table and chairs. Add an elfish house or wagon, and you add magic to your garden.
I bought my fairy garden items at Magnolia Market at the Silos because I live in Waco. You can look online or at any craft store for these final items.
I also add pebbles for sidewalks and larger rocks from my yard to mimic my actual flower beds. You can add twigs, moss, or a glass ball, or marbles.
Be creative and have fun. The goal is to enjoy making it and the smiles you create when looking at your fairy garden.
And a children’s story
As everything in my life revolves around children’s books, I wrote a short story for the 2021 Spring Fling Kidlit Contest. I was one of the winners in the 2019 Spring Fling Kidlit Contest. Contests are fun to be creative in a limiting capacity. There is always a word count rule.
And this contest is sponsored by one of my Critique Sisters, Ciara O’Neal.
The 2021 Spring Fling Kidlit Contest rules are simple—a 150-word story for kids 12 and under with a spring-like subject! I thought a fairy garden was a perfect subject! You can read my entry below and go to the Spring Fling Kidlit Contest site to read the other amazing short kidlit stories.
And because this is my fairy garden, I made my own gif on my GIPHY.
Wish me luck!
My Fairy Garden
By Dedra Davis
[word count-150]
My mom and I made a fairy garden.
We bought plants,
dirt,
and the most fabulous fairy house.
Mom helped me prepare the dirt,
plant the greenery,
and make the garden…
a fairyland.
Will real fairies appear?
Every day, I watered and waited.
Waited and watered.
One day, I saw something near the fairy garden.
Was this my sprite?
A hairy-fairy?
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Ah! Just a bunny.
One day, I saw something behind the house!
Was she my imp?
Pointy ears, but no wings?
Ugh! Just a mouse!
One day, something was flitter-fluttering.
Was this my pixie?
It was such a mystery!
Uh! Just a butterfly.
I wish to see
elfing enchantment,
but waiting
is
really
hard.
Then, one night,
a sprite for sore eyes—
at twilight,
just before the darkening,
in the half-light,
I tiptoed closer…
and saw an elfish shadow.
POUF
Pixiedust sprinkled from above!
But no one was gnome!
The End
I hope you enjoyed my enchanting story. It was fun to write. I took this picture two years ago, and I always knew I would write a story about it. I am happy I did. Contests are fun, but I rarely place, and that is okay because I created another story that might become a big story one day!
On-the-Verge
I recently was honored by winning the 2021 Austin Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Carmen Oliver On-the Verge Scholarship! It feels wonderful to know someone likes and appreciates my writing—that isn’t a critique partner. I feel on-the-verge! And I feel closer! Until the day I get my YES, I will fail forward!
I hope for you an enchanting fairy garden and some fun memories made. And smiles!
love and blessings~dd
Tell me what you think!!!
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