{"id":88,"date":"2013-03-14T13:56:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=88"},"modified":"2016-10-14T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:39:43","slug":"make-a-fairy-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/make-a-fairy-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Fairy Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89 alignnone\" alt=\"fairy-garden-playground-073-crop-575-px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fairy-garden-playground-073-crop-575-px.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking to bond with your kiddos outdoors?<\/p>\n<p>Many children will enjoy creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwf-fcf.org\/en\/what-we-do\/habitat\/resources\/fun-stuff\/nature-crafts--activities\/fairy-garden.html\">an area just for the fairies<\/a>. For children who aren\u2019t so interested in the wee folk, then perhaps they can make an area for some small toy people, animals or even race cars!<\/p>\n<p>It helps if this area is near where you work in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwf-fcf.org\/en\/what-we-do\/habitat\/resources\/fun-stuff\/nature-crafts--activities\/fairy-garden.html\">garden<\/a>, by the veggie patch perhaps. That way, you are together but you can also get a few chores done at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What You&#8217;ll Need<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A base to build on such as sand or soil.<\/li>\n<li>Feathers<\/li>\n<li>Stones<\/li>\n<li>Cones<\/li>\n<li>Shells<\/li>\n<li>Bark<\/li>\n<li>Sticks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s Get Down to Work!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are no steps for this activity other than to help your child gather natural materials that are safe to play with and are no longer part of a living plant. Materials will stay up more easily if they are pushed into the sand\/soil or if the sand\/soil is built up around the base of the item.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Make arbours and tunnels or grand entrances with bark, feathers and cones:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92\" alt=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Make houses and courtyards, pathways and gardens. Add elements such as table and chairs decorated with a crystal or old cedar cones that look like mini flowers:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-93\" alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2-593x640.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2-593x640.jpg 593w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Make a little village for dancing and playing:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-94\" alt=\"fairy-garden-playground-074-575-px\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/fairy-garden-playground-074-575-px.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Looking to bond with your kiddos outdoors? Many children will enjoy creating an area just for the fairies. For children who aren\u2019t so interested in the wee folk, then perhaps&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,641],"tags":[47,46,44,43,45,48,310],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connect-with-nature","category-gardening","tag-children","tag-crafts","tag-fairies","tag-fairy-garden","tag-gardening-2","tag-nature","tag-wild-about-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}