Fairy Garden Essentials You Can Stock Up On At Hobby Lobby

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We can all use a bit more playfulness and levity in our lives. Our gardens serve as an excellent way to connect with nature and get creative. There's something about digging around in the dirt and tending to flowers that unleashes our inner child. Whether you have little ones at home or you simply want to engage in a bit of merrymaking, creating a fairy garden will infuse your yard with personality. Right now, there's a lot of buzz around Hobby Lobby's selection of fairy garden essentials — think tiny strawberry houses, picket fences, and mushroom-adorned seesaws.

Before we explore Hobby Lobby's offerings, you need to know exactly what a fairy garden entails. These adorable outdoor — and sometimes indoor — features are where make-believe and miniatures converge. The origins of fairies can be traced back to ancient Greek, Celtic, and Germanic mythology. However, similar supernatural beings have popped up in folklore all around the world. Depending on the tale, they can be munificent, mischievous, or malevolent. Contemporary pop culture would have us believe fairies are human-like, tiny, winged, and found in nature.

As a craft, fairy gardening started to gain popularity as a hobby around the late 1800s. The practice was influenced by Japanese bonsai and the diminutive gardens of mid-1990s plant nursery owner Anne Ashberry. You can build a fairy garden in a container, a garden bed, or an old tree stump. Because they contain miniature outdoor furniture, buildings, and landscaping features, it's easy to dream up a host of fairy garden ideas that are downright magical while browsing Hobby Lobby's selection.

Pick out your favorite fairy home from Hobby Lobby's garden miniatures collection as a jumping-off point. Don't be afraid to channel the most whimsical version of yourself. This craft requires a lot of imagination and a bit of magic. The ultra-cute Strawberry House is popular with online creators and the Pink Flower House has only 5-star reviews on the product listing. Then gather complementary miniatures to build out the world for your fairy friends. Hobby Lobby has everything from tiny picket fences and wishing wells to street lamps and seesaws. They even stock fairy figurines to populate the little village. You could buy a few sets of Red and White Spotted Mushrooms to hide around your garden, creating a treasure hunt. Make your display as simple or as complicated as you wish.

Once you've picked out some Hobby Lobby fairy garden miniatures, you need to find somewhere to set them up. That could be a neglected corner of your backyard, under some brambly shrubs, in a garden bed against an exterior wall of your home, or in a rustic Cys Excel Wood Square Wooden Planter Box. You're creating a home for fairies to visit, if you believe in that sort of thing, while adding whimsy to your backyard. If you go the container garden route, you could create a patio, balcony, or indoor fairy garden. Add potting mix, Hobby Lobby's Assorted Moss and Birch Rounds, and your favorite succulents. Can't find everything you need at Hobby Lobby? DIY the perfect fairy garden using supplies from Dollar Tree, too. Whatever direction you take your fairy garden in, be sure to finish with a sprinkling of pixie dust!