How to Make a Lighted Container Fairy Garden

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I’ve always wanted to make a fairy garden. I’ve searched online and looked at all the super cute fairy garden supplies. Much of it is so expensive for how tiny it is.  I was so excited to see Dollar Tree had fairy garden supplies. It was a game changer for us because it meant that starting a fairy garden was going to be easy and affordable. Since it’s still pretty cold here in Pennsylvania we decided to do a container fairy garden.

You can find bulk fairy garden supplies on DollarTree.com. Everything you need to make a whimsical fairy garden with little houses, fairies, decorative rocks, and so much more.  What’s fun about fairy gardens is there’s no one way to make them. You can make it completely your own.  It’s a fun project to do with kids.  Here I show you how to make a lighted container fairy garden with materials from DollarTree.com

MATERIALS:

1. Container of your choice medium flower pots or short squat vases work well
2. Fairy garden buildings and/or fairies
3. Soil
4. River pebbles, accent gems, aquarium rocks in neutral colors
5. Floral moss and floral grass
6. real or artificial flowers
7. real or artificial succulent plants

Optional items:

1. Fairy lights
2. glitter

I was able to get all the supplies I needed from DollarTree.com or my local Dollar Tree store.

First fill your container with soil. I was able to find soil at my local Dollar Tree store. Two bags were plenty to fill up my medium size flower pot I chose.  You can do these as small or large as you like.

Next, decide how you want to arrange your fairy garden. You can set your fairy building, fairies, and flowers around before you start adding texture and planting things into the soil.  You can plant real plants or you can use artificial plants for a year round fairy garden.  Since it’s pretty cold here in PA yet, we opted for artificial plants.

We started by putting our fairy building we got from DollarTree.com on first then building and decorating around it.  We decided to plant the artificial succulents into the soil so they weren’t bigger than the buildings. If you’re using real plants you’ll do the same, of course. We already had an idea of what we wanted to do. We added river pebbles to add texture. We used blue accent gems that we bought on DollarTree.com to make a little pond in our container fairy garden. Floral moss added some sense of whimsy while artificial flowers gave our garden more depth.

We had bought some cute battery powered dragonfly lights at our local Dollar Tree that we wanted to add to our container fairy garden. They only had a few lights on them and were light weight so they worked well with our container garden. We sort of weaved them through the artificial flowers we placed in the pot.

We had so much fun with this project. It’s a fun family project. Would also be a fun playdate or party project. You can buy bulk fairy garden supplies at DollarTree.com

You can really add your own touches by adding more or less scenery items. A  pinch of glitter, real flowers, or other decorations.