Happy Slow Lego Fairy Garden For Kids

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Have you lot always made a Fairy Garden? I select been pinning photos of fairy gardens for the yesteryear few weeks on our LEGO Week together with select them bring together us for our fairy garden play!

Fairy gardens tin live made amongst a diversity of ages of kids together with you lot tin but modify the materials depending on the historic menses together with skills of your child. I made fairy gardens amongst all iii of my kids (ages 7, 4, together with 2) at the same time.  It was utter craziness when nosotros did painting, but it was actually fun too!

As purpose of LEGO Week nosotros are finding all sorts of fun ways to embed playing amongst LEGO into our day! This activeness mightiness live my favorite postal service all week!

To acquire started making a fairy garden hither is what you'll need...

• plastic saucer for a pot (or whatever other container you'd similar to use)
• small unpainted wooden family (we used plane houses nosotros establish at Michaels)
• stones or river rocks (purchased at Michaels)
• glass pebbles (clesr or colorful)
• moss (fake or real)
• flowers (fake or real)
• little forest pieces (to utilisation every bit stumps)
• small painted fences (can live used for several fairy gardens)
• washable paint
• paint brushes
• painters tarp (optional)
• LEGO bricks
• soil
• any other embellishments
• LEGO minifigures (or other tiny toys)

I purchased plenty materials to brand half dozen fairy gardens together with ended upwardly spending nigh $10 per fairy garden. I already had paint, soil, LEGO minifigures, pigment tarps, LEGO bricks, together with pigment brushes at home.

Here are the steps nosotros followed to brand our fairy gardens amongst our LEGO friends...

We started off yesteryear ikon out piddling wooden houses. My kids utilisation a diversity of colors on their houses together with made a HUGE mess... peculiarly my toddler. We painted exterior on our driveway on a piddling table. When I nation huge mess... flick my toddler ikon his entire shirt together with arms... together with and thence also throwing his pigment together with pigment brush. Don't permit this photograph fool you. It was the calm earlier the tempest together with the ground that this activeness isn't to a greater extent than fully documented.

One of the most of import items nosotros proceed unopen yesteryear spell nosotros are ikon is a big matter of babe wipes.

While the houses were drying nosotros got started working on our gardens.

We started yesteryear scooping nigh 3 cups of soil into each plastic saucer. We scooped until the soil covered the surface of the saucer together with was nigh ii inches deep.

Next nosotros added some moss (we used imitation moss), colored pebbles, river rocks, stumps, together with pieces of fence to department off the areas.

We also planted some flowers inwards the soil. In club to create that nosotros needed to brand some hills inwards the gardens thence that the flowers lived on the loma together with had deep plenty soil for their roots.

The kids loved watering the flowers inwards their fairy gardens.

We also added the dried birdhouses into the fairy gardens to live houses for the "fairies" or other people living inwards the gardens.

The kids also added some forest stumps for the minifigures to walk on.

Once everything was position within the fairy gardens together with thence the kids brought out all of their LEGO minifigures for some pretend play time! 

If you lot desire to brand your fairy gardens fifty-fifty to a greater extent than LEGO themed you lot could easily pattern your ain fairy family or other buildings using LEGO bricks together with and thence detect it a topographic point inwards your soil.

The LEGO minifigures are the perfect size for some modest globe play inwards our fairy garden! They could stand upwardly for inwards the birdhouse holes, relax on the moss, together with pace on the logs.

By straight off you've likely noticed that in that place aren't whatever fairies inwards our fairy garden... but we're nonetheless calling it that. My immature adult woman did convey out some of her favorite Tinkerbell fairies along amongst Elsa together with Anna to play along too.

Sometimes modest globe play isn't intuitive. Just similar when you lot are playing dollhouse amongst kids or pretend restaurant, you lot oft select to pretend to live a dissimilar person. 

One matter I dearest to create is play pretend! By showing the kids how to brand their minifigures walk around, explore together with play inwards the fairy garden, together with utter to friends, etc. it models some ways to play. When nosotros are doing pretend play nosotros sometimes similar to intend of stories to play. Here are a few scenarios...

• someone gets wound together with someone has to deal them
• someone is existence hateful together with someone has to live form together with salve the day
• there is an arguement together with people select to travel together
• people are working together to create something important
• re-enact stories of things that select happened inwards our family recently
• new friends acquire inwards together with people postulate to acquire to know 1 another

I dearest watching at my older kids acquire involved amongst pretend play together with brand their characters come upwardly alive. Often they acquire yesteryear watching me.

Fairy gardens are amount of pieces that are easily moveable thence purpose of the fun is "redecorating" the fairy garden quite oft together with moving the pebbles, dirt, together with forest around to alter the environment.

Have you lot made a fairy garden before? Share a photograph or tell me nigh it!

Have you lot always included LEGO inwards your fairy garden play?

You tin detect to a greater extent than Tuesday LEGO calendar week posts below:

• LEGO Yoda Glow inwards the Dark Shirt via Busy Kids Happy Mom 
• Counting LEGO Bees yesteryear JDaniel 4's Mom
• LEGO Photo Pen Holder from Lalymom

If you've missed whatever of the posts thence far brand certain to caput over to our 2nd annual LEGO Week landing page to run into all of the ideas shared thence far!

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