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Miniature Garden Ideas

May 10, 2018 by Ina Wrobel

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I garden and always try to get my kids involve with gardening. They need to know how to grow food, taking care of plants to keep it healthy and they help me to water the plant. But there also fun things to get the kids involve with gardening. One of them is to build their very own garden. My favorite one is the miniature garden. The kids turn it into a fairy garden.

Every spring, I always bring the kids to local garden center and ask them to pick their favorite plants for the miniature garden. While mostly just flowers but it is nice if the only smaller varieties of flowers, the groundcover plants are excellent for this project.
I help them to plant these flowers, and they gather extra material they need like rocks, twigs, glass pebbles, anything they like for their garden.

Here is the miniature garden from 2016 summer. I use the castle from the broken fish tank.

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Here is the miniature garden from 2017 summer. I picked the large resin barrel to make extra room for the garden.

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Here is the miniature garden in the winter. There is something beautiful when the tiny house covered with snow.

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Here is the miniature garden from this spring. My little one picked the flowers, help me clean the house and the pond. She even arranged the rocks for fairy stepping stone.

Miniature garden ideas on outdoor container for kids #fairygarden #miniaturegarden #gardenproject #gardeningwithkids for more ideas read more on craftyforhome.comShe plays with her very own garden every day since we build it. She takes care of her garden, water it every day and moves around the mini object there to suit what she likes. This garden project is one example to get kids involve with gardening and interact with nature, use their imagination that playing with flower and natural objects is fun and rewarding.

If you would like to build the miniature garden, here is the list of plants you can use and all low maintenance, mean you don’t have to plant sitting them all the time, they will thrive on their own.

  • Succulent
  • Any ground cover plants, like woolly thyme and creeping thyme.
  • Irish moss or any moss to resemble the grass area.
  • Short growing plant with little blooming flower like alyssum, ageratum or lobelia.
  • Miniature evergreen plant.
  • Bonsai plant.
  • Miniature rose.
  • Artificial plant because why not, right?

For a fuller look, you can use a mix of taller plant and smaller one. There is no strict rule for this. I mostly use my imagination when I am building one. You can also use any container for this project. One thing that needs to remember is if you use annual plants and you live in the cold winter, you need to replant them in the following spring. I found that creeping thyme and some of the succulent varieties overwinter just fine on the container.

Pin this to save it for your upcoming garden project!

Miniature garden ideas on outdoor container for kids #fairygarden #miniaturegarden #gardenproject #gardeningwithkids for more ideas read more on craftyforhome.com
Miniature garden ideas on outdoor container for kids #fairygarden #miniaturegarden #gardenproject #gardeningwithkids for more ideas read more on craftyforhome.com

Miniature garden ideas on outdoor container for kids #fairygarden #miniaturegarden #gardenproject #gardeningwithkids for more ideas read more on craftyforhome.com

Miniature garden ideas on outdoor container for kids #fairygarden #miniaturegarden #gardenproject #gardeningwithkids for more ideas read more on craftyforhome.com

Do you have any simple garden project that can bring the kids into gardening? Or maybe you have any suggestions for the type of plants to use on the miniature garden? Write a comment here, and I would like to know more about your fun ideas!

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  1. Edel

    May 11, 2018 at 9:48 am

    What a great idea! Love this so much and love seeing your daughter playing with it. Another add to the never-ending to-do list. Thank you, Ina.

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 11, 2018 at 10:49 am

      Thank you, she always so excited when I say lets build your fairy garden! Please build one, and just gather material from nature finds like twigs, rock, leaves, kids are excited on this simple thing.

      Reply
  2. Sharon

    May 11, 2018 at 10:11 am

    Gorgeous! Im just getting into succulents this post gives me inspiration to expand!

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 11, 2018 at 10:46 am

      Thank you, working with succulent is fun for sure, plant it and forget about it most of the time.

      Reply
  3. Lynn @ Oh-So Yummy

    May 11, 2018 at 1:44 pm

    Omg these are so cute! I don’t need a child to make one, right? LOL. I have to deal with the big garden first though. I love having drought tolerant plants which are easy to care for. May start adding succulents soon too!

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 11, 2018 at 2:45 pm

      Thank you, you can make one for your own, I am too still making mini garden for my self, lol. yup, drought tolerant is the best for it!

      Reply
  4. Kristin's Peppermints and Cherries

    May 11, 2018 at 3:47 pm

    What a fun project for children! I enjoy planting flowers in containers, and my children help me keep them watered! It’s on our to-do list for this evening!

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 11, 2018 at 4:29 pm

      Yes it is fun for the kids also for the mom, lol. That’s great that your children help you garden too, they sure like to observe the nature!

      Reply
  5. Noel

    May 12, 2018 at 9:32 am

    This is so cute! My girls would love this! I’m going to have to do this with them.

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 12, 2018 at 11:29 am

      Thank you, yes please build one, they will love their very own mini garden for sure!

      Reply
  6. Nicolette

    May 12, 2018 at 9:57 am

    I love the look of mini gardens! My girls love the “fairy houses.”

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 12, 2018 at 11:31 am

      Thank you, build the fairy house in the mini garden, the girls will have their own garden and invite fairy to come visit the new house! It will be so much fun!

      Reply
  7. Angela

    May 17, 2018 at 8:43 am

    I love miniature gardens! I like using stuff that I find in the yard,, like acorns as lanterns and little twig fences. My kids are all grown up but I still play with them, lol.

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 17, 2018 at 9:25 am

      These nature objects are actually better for miniature garden, it looks more natural! I do too still playing with my own miniature garden and always spend some times to plan for more mini gardens!

      Reply
  8. Jocelyn

    May 17, 2018 at 1:38 pm

    These are adorable! Pinning for future reference as an activities to do with the kids this summer!

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 17, 2018 at 8:30 pm

      Thank you, the kids will loves this, and thank you for pinning!

      Reply
  9. Trudy

    May 17, 2018 at 2:49 pm

    Those are so cute! Great ideas for the kids. I will keep this in mind for my grandchildren 🙂 Thank you for sharing.

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 17, 2018 at 8:28 pm

      Thank you, kids loves this kind of activity, I hope your grandchildren will love this too!

      Reply
  10. Kristi Ann

    May 17, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    I love those miniature castles! I would love to do that as a craft with my girls.

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 17, 2018 at 8:26 pm

      Thank you, I love the castle too, please do it, your girls will love it too.

      Reply
  11. Gail

    May 17, 2018 at 9:30 pm

    Wow, these miniature gardens are wonderful! I really liked the tiny house covered with snow. This seems like a very creative, mindful and relaxing thing to do. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Crafty For Home

      May 17, 2018 at 9:36 pm

      Thank you, yes it is very relaxing, for me gardening is like therapy, it is also rewarding to involve the kids to create this mini garden!

      Reply
  12. Heidi

    May 18, 2018 at 6:57 am

    This looks so cute!

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    • Crafty For Home

      May 18, 2018 at 8:54 am

      Thank you, and it does!

      Reply
  13. Ashley Reese

    May 18, 2018 at 9:15 am

    I love this idea! I have a younger sister and cousins that would love to make their own miniature gardens! I’ll have to remember this!

    Reply
    • Crafty For Home

      May 18, 2018 at 9:46 am

      Thank you, the girls will have so much fun to play with their mini garden!

      Reply
  14. Candi Randolph

    May 18, 2018 at 10:47 am

    What a wonderful way to help you children create something beautiful. I love the pictures through the seasons of the year!

    Reply
    • Crafty For Home

      May 18, 2018 at 1:16 pm

      Thank you, the kids always get excited when we build one. The snowy one is my favorite too!

      Reply
  15. Jennifer

    May 18, 2018 at 1:05 pm

    I love this idea! There was a neighbor when I was young that had a miniature garden similar to this. I would love to recreate this for my grandchildren to play in.

    Reply
    • Crafty For Home

      May 18, 2018 at 1:18 pm

      Thank you, yes please create one, your grandchildren will love this for sure!

      Reply
  16. Dawnmarie

    May 21, 2018 at 7:31 am

    These little garden ideas are creative. It is nice to have projects on which all ages can work together.

    Reply
    • Crafty For Home

      May 21, 2018 at 12:16 pm

      Thank you, yes it is nice to have the little one involve to create this fun project, we had fun and they learn something too!

      Reply
  17. Kristen

    May 21, 2018 at 10:15 pm

    This is adorable! I never would have thought of doing something like this!

    Reply
    • Crafty For Home

      May 22, 2018 at 8:49 am

      Thank you, it is one of fun things to do for kids outside.

      Reply
  18. Shanna

    May 23, 2018 at 10:02 pm

    so stinking cute!

    Reply
    • Crafty For Home

      May 24, 2018 at 8:30 am

      Thank you, who doesn’t love cute things, hehe

      Reply
  19. Holly Bird

    October 25, 2018 at 2:43 pm

    This would make great gifts …Thank you for your inspiring ideas!

    Reply
    • Crafty For Home

      November 12, 2018 at 3:28 pm

      Definitely, a unique gift for any gardener or anyone who like the miniatures or fairy world.

      Reply

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