Turn Any Plant Pot Into An Adorable Fairy House With A Dollar Tree DIY

We all need a little magic in our lives from time to time, and for some, that magic comes in the form of fairies! If you're someone who loves fairy garden decor and you're looking for affordable ways to spread your magic wand to bring these whimsical ideas to life, you'll want to take a closer look at Dollar Tree's fairy garden collections. If this is your first time creating a fairy garden, starting with a fairy house is both practical and charming. Here's how to turn almost any plant pot into an adorable fairy cottage using a few Dollar Tree finds.

Dollar Tree's fairy garden collections include everything from fairy houses and figurines to scene-building accessories like small bridges and wishing wells. Of particular interest for this project is the fairy door, an essential element of any house. There are four different styles of fairy doors available at Dollar Tree, and although availability varies by location, you can also purchase these Detail Carved Fairy Door Garden Decorations online. While the doors cost just $1.50 each in stores, online orders require a minimum purchase of 24. That means $36 gets you enough fairy doors to build an entire village. However many you decide to get, you can use them anywhere in your outside garden or among your indoor plants. To DIY the perfect fairy garden house with one of these doors, all you need is a plant pot and some embellishments.

This whimsical garden fairy door DIY transforms an ordinary plant pot into a magical fairy house in just minutes. Glue one of the fairy doors from Dollar Tree to any type of plant pot, and you're on your way. Terracotta pots are a popular choice thanks to their natural, rustic charm, which pairs well with fairy gardens. To decorate your fairy cottage, use a hot glue gun to attach the door to the plant pot, then fill in the remaining area on the outside of the pot with pebbles, glass stones, twigs, pieces of bark, or moss. To finish the look, don't forget to add a couple of tiny windows. Then, you can use a live plant as a living, green roof, and put the pot in your garden. 

Once you have a fairy house, your fairy garden can really take shape. Create even more magic by using different types of gravel and colored stones to create paths, playgrounds, ponds, and small pretend creeks for the fairies. Then, fill it with some figurines and other fun products from Dollar Tree's fairy garden collection. If you use a terracotta pot, it's important to note that clay pots are vulnerable to cracking in cold climates, so you may want to bring them indoors during the winter. You may even already have a broken terracotta pot that works perfectly for a Dollar Tree mini fairy house. 

You can't have all of the houses in your fairy garden looking like cookie-cutter tract houses, so if you want to mix it up with some different styles, remember that you don't always need to plant something inside each pot. For example, you could turn one of those smaller resin whiskey barrel planters upside down before decorating it. Once you attach the fairy door, you can cover it with just enough Floral Garden Moss and Multi-Toned River Pebbles from Dollar Tree to make it look like part of the fairy landscape while leaving some of the pot visible so that it still has character.

Once you start exploring, you'll find all kinds of plant pots that can be turned into magical fairy houses. With ideas like tree trunk planters, mini hedgehog pots, and ceramic mushroom pots, you'll find no shortage of fun plant pots to use with the charming fairy doors from Dollar Tree. You could even experiment with making them from hypertufa, a DIY birdbath idea that can be used to create a variety of garden decorations. 

Whether you build your fairy garden inside an apartment or put it in a lush front-yard flowerbed, with all the choices of plant pots, accessories, and embellishments, there's no limit to the magic you can create. Before long, you'll be ordering another case of 36 fairy doors to complete the fairy village in your backyard.