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June 15, 2015

Upcycled Fairy House Craft

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Our fairy garden is one of the kids’ favorite places to play in the backyard.  It’s actually a fairy and frog garden and a couple of weeks ago they decided the frogs and fairies need a fairy house.

Easy Upcycled Fairy House Craft for Kids

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How to Make a Fairy House:

  • quart size (32 oz) dairy carton
  • acrylic spray paint–ours was similar to this one
  • hot glue
  • foam flower sticker (Craft Project Ideas sent us some for free)
  • 6mm faceted beads (Craft Project Ideas sent us some for free)
  • or any other craft supplies your children choose!

Fairy House Craft for Fairy Garden

We cut the bottom off the carton with scissors and then cut a door opening into front of it.  We painted the entire carton with spray paint and it took about 3 coats.

Then I helped the kids hot glue the foam flower (which has held up really well in our FL rainstorms!) and the beads to the front of the carton.

Homemade Fairy Garden and Fairy House for Kids

They couldn’t decide what other decorations to add so so far that’s all they’ve done. Once you cut and paint the carton your kids can customize your fairy house craft anyway they would like!

We also used a quart sized carton because our fairies are pretty tall.  If you have smaller fairies or if you don’t want to put fairies in your garden you can use a pint sized carton.

 Fairy Garden for Kids

We made a fairy(and frog) garden because we had little fairy and frog figures already, but you can make any kind of play garden.

A dinosaur garden, a gnome garden, LEGO Minifigures garden…any of these would be just as fun and engaging!

Disclosure: Craft Project Ideas sent us supplies to craft with but in no other way sponsored this post. All ideas and opinions are mine alone.

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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