My little girl loves fairies right now and so I thought it’d be fun to do a fairy garden outside this spring for her. However, it’s still be a little rainy, so I had a thought to do a DIY indoor fairy garden play mat. She loves it! she moves it around the house and pretends it is her little indoor garden spot. I even made some felt flowers to go around the pond that she can move around as she chooses. It’s such a fun little indoor garden while it’s cold outside.
Supplies needed to make your own DIY indoor fairy garden mat:
- Fairy Garden Supplies
- Fairies
- Felt – large green piece for the grass, blue for a pond and various other colors for flowers.
First you want to cut out your grass area. I would suggest placing your chosen fairy homes and other accessories to make sure it fit nicely. Then cut out a oval shape. Then cut out a small bean/oval like shape for the pond. You can hot glue it on or just leave it unglued. I left mine unglued so that my daughter can move it around as she so chooses.
Now for the flowers:
For this first one, cut a long piece of felt about 12 to 16 inches by 1 inch. Then on one side, cut slits into it all the way up.
Then roll it up from one side to the other.
Hot glue a circle piece of felt to the back to hold it all together.
Here are some other different flowers you can make just cut them a little different. These next two start with felt circles and cut into spirals. Roll up and hot glue a circle on the back like the previous.
For this flower, cut out scallops while doing spirals.
This really took me about 1/2 hour to put together including rolling up the flowers. Such a fun DIY indoor fairy garden for all ages.
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Havalah is a creative blogger over at Sisters, What! and is DIYer who loves to try anything creative. But especially loves to sew, craft and paint. She seems to have millions of projects going on at one time, but enjoys every minute of it.
This’ seriously such a cool idea – especially for the rainy PNW! I think I will do this for my daughter’s bday, thank you!!