16 Festive Christmas Fairy Garden Ideas You Can DIY

A Christmas fairy garden unlocks the magic of the holidays and makes a fabulously festive decoration for any homestead! A fairy garden is also one of the best holiday crafts for you and your kids, friends, or family to enjoy while getting into the holiday mood, and coming up with great ideas is part of the fun!

We want to share the holiday joy with you! So – here are some of the best Christmas fairy garden ideas to help inspire!

16 DIY Christmas Fairy Garden Ideas

If you’re looking for a fun and festive way to spruce up your indoor or outdoor spaces for the holidays, building a DIY fairy garden with a winter theme is an inexpensive and fun craft to do!

If that sounds like a good time to you, here are some ideas to help you get started:

1. Christmas Fairy Garden In a Bucket

We love this garden, which includes some great plants that double up as mini trees! The clever use of perennial herbs such as rosemary means that the Christmas fairies nestle into a wonderfully fragrant garden.

If you choose the right plants, you can rotate out the decorations for every season, which I think I’ll try this year!

All you need to make it are some figurines, and if you’re anything like me, you likely have way too many of them lying around the house during Christmas time. You can also use Christmas ornaments or make your own decorations from air-dry clay.

I also love the portability of the fairy garden! If you want more photos and instructions, check out the guide on the Glue Sticks Blog.

2. Tabletop Christmas Tree Fairy Garden

Here’s one of my favorite options if you’re looking for a fairy garden with all-natural components.

The best part is that you can grow your own Christmas tree inside! That way, you can decorate it for Christmas every year, then place it in your yard or windowsill to get bigger over the spring and summer.

This step-by-step guide also takes all the guesswork out of creating the perfect tabletop Christmas fairy garden! 

Check out the complete guide, including step-by-step instructions on the Better Home and Gardens blog.

3. Upcycled Christmas Fairy Garden

Creative imaginations have gone to work creating this Christmas fairy garden! Note the impressive results. The use of a small birdhouse to create a fairy house is inspiring!

We also like that they used white sand for an extra snowy effect. I’d love to try that with succulents since you’d never have to take out the snow!

If you love this Christmas fairy garden as much as we do – check out the complete article and more details on Life is a Party.

Read More – 8 Best Tips for Finding and Cutting Your Own Christmas Tree!

4. Christmas Tree Fairy Garden

This fairy garden is themed around a rosemary “Christmas tree,” with tiny presents and the most adorable table and chair set ever! I also noticed the charming train. I think the fairies are hauling Christmas gifts!

You can also check out the full list of materials for building the Christmas garden yourself over on the Premeditated Leftovers blog.

5. Wooden Trug Christmas Fairy Garden

This tutorial contains excellent tips to help create the perfect Christmas fairy garden. The festive fairy doors are adorable!

I love the idea of using an old basket for the container since it gives your fairy garden a rustic look. White gravel and potpourri also make excellent and environmentally-friendly substitutes for fake snow. Plus, it’s great for drainage!

6. Rustic Fairy Cottage

This miniature fairy house from Loziram bursts at the stitchings with pixie dust and fairy magic! The frozen lake, made from a piece of glass encircled in gravel, looks incredible, and all that “shrubbery” around the edges looks just like a mini hedge!

Read More – How to Easily Hang Christmas Lights Outside Without Nails – or Stress!

7. Solar Light Christmas Garden

These fairies are jolly and eco-friendly! It isn’t Christmas without fairy lights, and even a fairy garden deserves twinkly sparkles! Solar LED wire lights easily make your Christmas fairy wonderland bright!

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These lights are super practical. They are fantastic for home decor during the spring and summer, so they are useful beyond the bounds of your fairy garden.

If you agree that solar lights rock, check out more information and instructions on Little Tudor on the Prairie.

8. Winter Village Christmas Garden

If the festive tunes on this great tutorial don’t get you in the Christmas spirit, then nothing will! This impressive Christmas fairy garden is easy to make, using figurines and accessories to create a Christmas village.

This is one of the easiest Christmas fairy garden ideas to make at home since it’s pretty easy to find similar decor for your garden. For example, you can find a whole bunch of them in lots, like this one:

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All you need to do is place the decorations and wait for the fairies to come!

9. Festive Fairy Wreath

Here’s one of my favorites! This design is for a spring wreath, but a few festive tweaks instantly turn it into a Christmas version!

To make it, you’ll need a wreath form like these Elocho Flexible Wire Frames that come with green florist’s wire for easy decorating. Then, add some moss, hot glue, and chicken wire.

You can add anything you want on top, from paper snowflakes to elaborate lights. I recommend tucking on some fake snow, glitter, candy canes, tiny presents, and voila – a festive fairy wreath!

Read More – Best Gifts for Farmers and Homesteaders – Our Ultimate Christmas Gift Guide!

10. Miniature Terrarium Fairy Garden

Maybe you’ve had enough of fake snow and glitter everywhere already? Keep your Christmas fairy garden safely contained in a beautiful terrarium! And, when the festive season is over, you can change your theme throughout the seasons.

It’s the gift that keeps on giving!

The adorable Fairy garden decor is from My Little Fairy Garden, a company that specialized in creating intricate and stunning fairy garden decor! We aren’t sponsored by them, but I highly recommend checking out their website if you want some stunning pieces to add to your terrarium.

I also think the miniature terrarium fairy garden idea is perfect if you’re bored and want a fun art project for your kids. Check out more details on the Be a Fun Mom blog.

11. Christmas Fairy Tree House

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So cool! A secret Christmas garden nestled within a fairie oak! After spending time around this majestic Fairie hideaway – it’s easy to see why gumdrop-loving and star-dust-laden pixies call this Christmas garden home!

This is one of the easiest DIY Christmas fairy garden ideas to execute. You just need some odds and ends and some creativity to create it.

Why not create a magical woodland trail with hidden doors for your festive fairies to hide behind?

12. Fairy Garden in a Tea Cup

Running short of space? We all know how cramped it can feel during the holidays, with toys, presents, food, and the tree taking over our houses!

This delightful teacup Christmas fairy garden is tiny enough to sit on a shelf or makes a cute table decoration. 

If you use all-natural cuttings from pine trees, spruce trees, holly bushes, and other evergreens inside the cup, then your teacup decor can also be compostable! That’s great news for your (likely) already overflowing garbage can on Christmas day.

While the banner is the cutest part of the whole piece, in my opinion, I’d use paper, some string, glue, and bamboo kitchen skewers to make it. That way, you can recycle those and save some money, too.

13. Full Edible Gingerbread Winter Wonderland

This Christmas fairy garden is jaw-droppingly incredible! The time and effort put into this garden creation have paid off!

Everything in this fairy garden is edible – from the gingerbread houses and mushrooms to the jolly rancher paving stones and pond. So, there’s no waste here! To clean up, just have a seat and chow down.

14. Christmas Grotto

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Often, I’ve wondered how fairies avoid getting lost at night – especially during a thick winter snowstorm. But after witnessing this eloquently well-lit fairie garden from haymeg, it’s easy to see how they find their way!

How adorable is this little Christmas fairy grotto! I love this display’s simple but effective ideas, such as the picket fence made with twigs and garden wire.

15. DIY Christmas Snowglobe

Making a snow globe might sound complicated, but all you need is a mason jar and some glitter! This has been one of my favorite Christmas crafts ever since I was a kid, and it makes a great holiday activity for the whole family.

To make this snow globe, you’ll need a jar, various decorations, white glitter, glycerin, and waterproof glue.

The fairy garden sits on the lid, just waiting for the snow to fall when you give it a shake. Very cute!

If you have a few leftover jars and want to make your holidays more festive, check out more details on the Garden Therapy blog!

16. Cloche Jar Christmas Wonderland

These little domes of Christmas joy are so cute and sleek! They fit super well into any decor style without being too over-the-top, and the jar makes for easy cleanup after the holiday season is over.

You can also use solar-powered Christmas fairy lights for this DIY, and add some bottle brush pine trees, white sand, and biodegradable glitter to make a stunning little Christmas scene for your neighborhood fairies to enjoy.

Another great idea is to add air plants or moss to your jar to make a terrarium. Then, you can change out the decorations inside for every season!

Check out Balcony Garden Web’s instructions to learn more about replicating these Christmas fairy gardens.

Christmas Fairy Garden Decor Ideas

As we’ve been searching for the best Christmas fairy garden ideas, we’ve found so many cool things to spruce up our tiny gardens. Here are some of our favorites:

Which of These Christmas Fairy Garden Ideas Is Your Favorite?

There are so many fun ways to help summon and invite fairies into your yard during the holidays.

Hopefully, these Christmas fairy garden ideas gave you a good place to start!

Let us know which is your favorite!

Thanks so much for reading, and happy holidays!

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