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November 30, 2016 By Brandy 5 Comments

Home » Holidays » Christmas

Make a Christmas Fairy Garden this Holiday Season

Filed Under: Christmas, Craft Tutorials, Gardening, Holidays, Kids Crafts Tagged With: Kids Gardening, Kids Holiday Crafts

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
Ruby had a day off of school recently and the Christmas fairy garden supplies that we had ordered for the Christmas season were collecting dust so we decided to make a trip to our local nursery to get things started! We kind of have a thing for seasonal fairy gardens. Don’t believe us? Scroll to the bottom of the post! It’s a sickness, ha!

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
My husband doesn’t understand our obsession with such seasonal gardens that only last a couple of months, but that’s okay. We have so much fun putting them together and enjoying them while they last. When they start to get overgrown we toss the annuals and replant the perennials into something else.

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
Since we live in California we don’t have to worry about frost more than a couple of months a year. When that happens we will bring our garden inside, but for now, it’s on our porch and doing great. We chose a type of moss, pink and white flowers that reminded us of candy canes, and another filler that looks like a type of fern. I’m not good at plant names. Especially when I toss the labels before writing up the post. Sorry!

Christmas Fairy Garden

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
A galvanized bucket that we already had was the perfect pot for this project. We filled it with potting soil and became breaking up the root membranes on the plants. Ruby loves doing that for me.

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
Then we started arranging everything how we wanted it! This is the fun part. Not really having a plan and moving things around until they look just right.

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
We chose this little house because it was so festive with the pops of red and green. It is also battery operated and lights up.

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
We found a bag of pretend snow and thought it would be perfect for the front of the garden. How does it affect watering? It doesn’t. When it is time to water the garden I remove the house, then water from the back. Since we put the snow over the potting soil, and not over any of the plants, it doesn’t really get wet or shift around.

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
Ruby’s FAVORITE element is the little mouse building a snowman. The snowman pick is only 3/4″ tall, perfect for a mouse.

A beautiful Christmas fairy garden to brighten your porch or home this holiday season! Get the kids involved for a magical project that will last all season!
Supplies:

Plants and flowers from our local nursery, Green Acres.

Christmas fairy garden accessories, frosted trees, house, and pretend snow from MyFairyGardens.com

 

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About Brandy

Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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  1. JaneEllen Jones says

    December 4, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    So sweet to see Mom and daughter making things together, she’ll remember that years from now. Making memories is so special. Our daughter makes fairy garden with her two girls on Mother’s day every year, love it and so do her girls (2).She does different ways every year so they don’t get tired of it. They’re almost all grown up now bit still make fairy gardens on Mother’s day.
    We got her some fairy garden furniture,items from JoAnns for Mothers day, they have such cute things.
    Loved plants you used for your Christmas garden, love it all.
    Have wonderful week.
    Your little girl is so pretty and sweet.

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    • Brandy says

      December 5, 2016 at 10:12 am

      Jane, this made my day! I’m so glad to hear that and hope my girls feel the same way when they are grown too! I love the idea of doing it once a year…to really make it special and something to look forward to and doing it in the spring for Mother’s Day is just perfect! I love that so much!

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  2. midlifeblogger says

    December 5, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    I love your fairy gardens! They’re so cute and creative. Is that your daughter? She’s beautiful!

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  3. Maisy says

    December 7, 2016 at 2:29 am

    Such a darling DIY idea! I love miniature gardens, and this looks so adorable and creative 🙂 Thanks for sharing at our linky party!

    *Maisy

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  4. Christine @ www.rustic-refined.com says

    December 8, 2016 at 7:42 am

    This is such a great idea for a gift. Thanks for inspiring us over at the DI & DI Link Party. Hope you found some new friends and had fun. Merry Christmas!

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