How to Make a Fairy House

Build the foundation for the house (optional). If you want to put a fairy house in your house, you should probably make a foundation to mount the house above. Use old cardboard or wood and decorate it to resemble the outside of your home. Add moss to make weeds, branches to make miniature trees, and use gravel to make rocks. You can also make a fairy house in a potted garden.

Attach the house. Glue cardboard, wood and other materials with a hot glue gun or wood glue. An all-clay fairy house is expensive and time-consuming, but baked clay is a great material for watchtowers and windows, and comes in a variety of colors to choose from. You can make towers out of tissue rolls, toothpaste boxes, or anything else you can think of.

• Use tree branches as toy logs to build houses. Place two branches parallel to each other, then cross two more branches on top (you should have a square with overlapping corners). Continue stacking like this until you form the walls as high as you want, then install the roof above.
  
• If making an outdoor fairy house, build the walls and roof, then cover with mud or earth to create a hobbit-style round house. Press flat stones into the sides to form walls and place patches of moss on the roof to make a thatched roof. Leave an opening for the door and add a hollow stick, reed or a piece of bamboo pipe to make the chimney. Press some pebbles into the ground to make a path to the house.
  

Create a fairy world in the house. Spread sand, leaves or moss to create a soft cushion. Use fern leaves or a piece of leather stocking to make a hammock and a few scraps of fabric to make curtains. Turn a teacup or saucer upside down to form a table and use the acorn lid to make a bowl. You can even add “wallpaper” with dried leaves, leather, or craft paper. If you want to add furniture, you can use dollhouse furniture or make your own:

• For example, you can find a few different sizes of dried branches in the garden to make a table. Cut out 4 segments and use glue to create a rectangular table frame the size of the table top as you want. When the frame is dry, lay the branches across the table and glue them to the frame. When the table top is dry, you will cut 4 more branches of the same length and glue below to make the table legs.
  
• Clay furniture is much easier to make but doesn’t look very rustic. There are no instructions here: you just have to carefully mold the self-drying or baked clay into furniture.
• For more ideas, check out the article “How to make your own dollhouse furniture”.

Decorate the house with what you find. Once the house structure is finished, you can decorate the house with doors, vines, etc. The rustic and natural touches will make the house look more realistic, The birch bark looks beautiful and has can be used on both sides. Don’t forget to add the scenery too!