Fall Fairy Garden

Fall Fairy Garden: How to make a sweet little Fall themed Fairy Garden with an easy to make fairy house, mushrooms, pumpkins, and miniature fall leaves tutorial.

I love this time of year, it’s cooler outside, the leaves are turning, and it’s time for warm drinks and pumpkin everything.  I also love fairy gardens, so I thought it might be fun to make one for fall this year.

The first thing I did was make a little fall themed fairy house for the garden.  I used a tiny bird house from the dollar store as my base.

I removed the bird peg from the bird house, and the screw from the top.  Then I gave the bird house a quick coat of orange/peach paint.  I printed out a bunch of vintage seed package images -like this free pumpkin seed one, and this sunflower one.  Then I cut the seed packages to fit the house and mod podged them onto the house.  I used images that made me think of the fall.

For the door, I used a few little pieces of wood and a bead as a door handle and hot glued them on. For the roof, I used some preserved oak leaves -find them here, and mod podged them onto the roof.

I also made the little fairy toadstools.  And they were really easy.

I stared out with some corks from sparkling wine, and their shape inspired me, since they kind of look like a little mushroom.

I painted the tops with some reddish-orange craft paint.  When it was dry, I added some white spots.  Then, I sealed it all with a coat of mod podge.

Aren’t they the cutest?  Fairy gardens are all about the little details.  So next I made some little pumpkins out of polymer clay.  I have found the clay weathers really well in outdoor fairy gardens.

I added some of the pumpkins to the doorway, and filled up a little miniature wagon I found at the craft store.

To make the pumpkins, just make a ball of orange polymer clay, and then add some ridges with a blunt edge, and add a tiny brown clay stem.  Bake according to the manufactures instructions on the package.

My favourite little detail in this garden is the fall leaves.  They’re real leaves!

I used a 1.5 cm leaf punch, from the craft store to make them from real fall leaves.

You just punch them out of real leaves.  They will dry, and the edges may curl up a little, but they just look like real fallen leaves.

If there is a predominant vein in your leaf, you can punch it out so that it’s running up and down on the miniature leaf, and it will look even more realistic.

I set my little garden up at my front door on a wood stump so visitors could see it.  I love how it turned out, and my daughters had fun helping me make it.

With a Miniature Fall Fairy Garden, life really is a party!