I love the idea of little fairy gardens, and thought it would be a fun activity to work on with the kids.  Landon also loves gardening and plants--when he goes outside to play, he digs holes and redistributes the dirt.  And then comes inside and tells me all about the garden he made and what he planted.

I think we will make the kids their own little garden patch this year that they can work on, even though we will have a big family garden as well.  They have a few metal gardening tools, and rumor has it that the Easter Bunny is going to give them a few more.

This last week, we worked on our first fairy garden.  It was so fun!  We will definitely be making more.  I picked up a few things when I went to the Tricities a while back.  And we picked out a couple plants at the store.  The kids painted little houses to add (we will put them in our future ones, we ended up using the bigger house I painted in this one).  We planted in an old container we found in the barn behind our house before they tore it down this winter.  Brett drilled a few holes in the bottom of it before we planted, so it would drain.

I love it!  The kids love it too, and like to show their friends when they come over.