How to Make an Indoor Fairy Village

Make your own adorable fairy village and garden that you and every child that sees it will love! Get children involved in making the village and using their creativity to create mini fairy items. Kids are full of imagination and can come up with some really unique ideas. This village is so magical, that it actually attracted real life fairies to live in it...according to two 6 year old's who saw fairies fluttering around the houses!

This is a really fun project, and it is the perfect decoration to put up in early spring to bring everyone out of the end of winter blues.

I love building villages that put me in the spirit of the seasons or holidays. I have been building my Halloween and Christmas village for years, but decided I needed a village for spring and summer seasons. So since I love fairies, I decided it was time to build a miniature fairy village with fairy houses and garden. It has proven to be the perfect escape from everyday, mundane, serious adult stuff. I have been building my village for many years, collecting and making new fairy tidbits to add every year.

Many of the items used to build this village were purchased at dollar stores, making this an inexpensive venture. This is especially true if you add to it little by little, year after year.

I have attached photos of my fairy village and will give you ideas on how to make these items yourself.

Fairies need a cabana to relax under for shade on a sunny and warm day. To build the fairy cabana collect thin twigs and glue them together using hot glue. I stacked the twigs to form a mesh, rounded half-wall. Floral wire was wrapped around the twigs to keep them together while gluing. The top of the fairy cabana is a brim from an old straw hat that I cut to fit as a roof. I attached it by gluing it to the top of the twig cabana using hot glue.

I placed the cabana on top of a tree trunk prop that I purchased with Halloween village accessories. I often use the same props on all of my holiday villages interchangeably.

Building the Stick Ladder

I cut 8 sticks the same size to use as rungs on the ladder. Then I began wrapping twine around the sticks, one by one, leaving about 1/2 inch in between. Add a dab of hot glue before you wrap to keep the sticks in place. Do this for both sides of the ladder. I then leaned it up against the tree trunk prop from the lower garden area.

Making the Mushrooms

The mushrooms are sculpted from white and taupe colored polymer clay. I sculpted the caps and the bases separately, baked them and then glued them together using hot glue. I painted the tops on a few of them with red acrylic paint and then added dots with white. They look awesome nestled throughout the village, and add a pop of color.

A Note About the Flowers

I used silk and dried flowers to decorate the entire village. Most of the silk flowers were purchased at dollar stores. I went for some very large flowers, because after all this would be the proportion of most flowers to tiny little fairies. Bunch dried flowers such as German statice and babies breath together to create miniature bushes.

The Chairs
The fairy chairs are built using pods. I cut a long, pointed pod in half to make the fairy seats and glued them onto round pods for the base.

The Fireplace
I cut another round pod in half and then carved a rounded opening in the front using a craft knife for the fireplace. The rocks are attached to the outside with a small amount of mortar. Then I cut really tiny sticks and put them inside for fireplace wood.

The Table
The table was sculpted from polymer clay, and I added some texture to the top to look like a mini wood table. The rug on the floor is a bamboo coaster.

This little fairy house started off as a small round birdhouse. I created a rounded "hobbit" door from polymer clay, and shaped it on the house before baking to get the proper roundness. Once baked I glued it onto the house and then glued small stones around the entire bottom wall of the house. The roof is is covered with leaves, overlapped and attached with glue. The leaves were actually flat and fresh when I applied them, and they dried curled up and wispy and very fairy-esque. This was a happy accident.

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Table and Chairs

The table and stools are sculpted with polymer clay. I made the table top separate than the legs and then glued them together. The rug is another piece of the old straw hat that I cut apart.

The Bridge

The bridge was sculpted from polymer, and pre-shaped over a paper towel holder to shape the rounded arch before baking. The railings are rolled snakes, curled at the ends for whimsy. I glued stones every inch or so to the base of the bridge, then glued the railing to the top of the stones. Under the bridge I placed iridescent blue stones to look like water.

The Ground Cover

The entire village is built on pieces of Styrofoam sheets to protect my furniture. I placed all the pieces where I wanted them and then scattered Spanish moss along the ground. I also tucked some green moss in areas for a variety of color and texture. This gives it a very natural appearance.

All of the fairy houses in the village start off as wood birdhouses. I purchased some small ones from the dollar store, and the larger ones from craft stores. The houses are decorated with stones, leaves, pods, acorns, and dried and silk flowers. To add texture to the roof of one of the houses I pulled the nubs off of pine cones and glued them on in a shingle pattern. Use your imagination when decorating the houses. Color, texture and natural elements are key for fairy houses.

The Fairy Fence

The fairy fence was made using the stems on a dried flower. I cut them into equal sizes and then used waxed thread to tie them together. I went for a rustic look, because it worked for a wood nymph appearance, and also because it was impossible to get them to line up straight ;). Overall, it worked. I sculpted the garden gate using polymer clay and glued a sparkly star bead to the front for whimsy.

The Garden

It is a little hard to tell from the photo, but behind the fence and up to the house I build a mini fairy garden. I cut apart silk floral bushes and pressed them into the styrofoam base so they stood upright. The flowers really look like an English garden. A path was created using large river stones from the garden gate to the front door of the house. Lastly, mushrooms were added in between the flowers.

Thanks for visiting my hub and enjoy making your own fairy village!