Fairy house. Houses for fairies, elves and gnomes in the garden at the dacha (20 photos) Do-it-yourself fairy house from a plastic bottle

It is said that if elves settle in the garden, it will bring the owner of the garden good luck and success in all his affairs. It is only necessary not to forget to leave a saucer of milk on the porch of the house every evening. You can plunge into a fairy tale by building a small garden and a house for elves in suburban area.

What can you make a house for elves

In fact, a house for elves can be made from almost everything that fantasy is capable of. For these purposes, almost any material at hand will fit: cardboard, chipboard or fiberboard, plastic bottles, drywall, branches, boards, cement, foam plastic, iron sheets, cones, acorns, chestnuts, etc. It is necessary to think over to the smallest detail what shape and size the house will be, as well as whether it will be hollow from the inside or filled.

A great house for garden elves can be made from drywall. All parts of the house box must be glued together; for reliability, they can be fixed with furniture brackets or small nails. Then cut openings for windows and doors and cover the house with a cement mortar. If small pebbles or crushed stone are added to the cement, it will seem that the facade of the house is made of stone. For the roof you can take big leaf the most ordinary cardboard, fold it in half, thereby shaping the future roof and covering it with a cement solution. The effect of tiles on the roof can be done using tree bark.

A finished house for elves will harmoniously look among the greenery. Such a house can be placed in the center or at the edge of a large flower bed. The elf house can be surrounded climbing plants or flowerpots. It will look quite organic and look near a small soda fountain.

House for elves in a tree

Another simple option for a home for elves in the garden is a treehouse. To do this, it is only necessary to make a small door and a few windows and glue or fasten with nails at the roots of one of the trees in the garden. In order for such a house to be more visible in the garden, it can be made oval or round shape and paint it in a bright color.

Walkways and steps

To finished house you can add some decorative elements. You can complement the composition by laying out a narrow path of pebbles to the dwelling of the elves or by making steps from pebbles. Steps can also be made around the tree, then the door of the house can be attached not at the roots, but a little higher. This will make the composition more noticeable, and the house itself will become more fabulous. appearance.

Garden for elves

To make the composition complete will help the creation small garden for fantasy characters. A small area near the house for elves can be fenced with a small wicker fence, set up a gate, plant flowers, or lay out a fenced area with moss. You can also add various benches and swings to the house, and if you add a few more small houses with tiled roofs, you get a whole elven village. So at the summer cottage there will be a small fairy-tale country that will appeal not only to children, but also to adults.

garden figurines

Small figures of elves, gnomes and various animals can give a unique flavor to any garden. Unfortunately, these figures do not always look organic in the garden. If the figurines are installed on an emerald flower bed or lawn, they will rather spoil the appearance of the site than serve as a full-fledged decor element. In everything you need to know the measure, a large number of garden figurines, will also look ridiculous. The basic principle of creating a complete composition in the garden is stylistic unity. All garden toys and buildings should be made of the same materials.
Figurines in the garden should not look apart. They are designed to complete the garden composition. Figures of fabulous elves, fairies and gnomes can be installed near fairy houses. Such figures should fit neatly into the composition. With the help of small ceramic figurines, you can create an entire elven village in which each of its "inhabitants" will do their own thing. Fortunately, there are a large number of such figures, so making such a design will not be very difficult. And figurines of birds and animals should be in those places in the garden that resemble their natural habitat. When choosing animal figurines, it should be remembered that, today, the quality of products is quite high, and these figurines are made with photographic accuracy. Not everyone will calmly react to a snake or toads crawling out from under a bush.

How to make fairy houses with your own hands, and where do such ideas come from?

About everything in order. It's good that in our life there are such wonderful resources as ko-ko-ko KIDS. I read regularly, I try not to miss anything, I always lick my lips at great ideas, I dream of at least one more hour in a day in order to have time to do at least a little of what I find here. And now, looking through a summer selection of ideas, I stumble upon houses ... I understand that I have a beautiful pine tree in my dacha, under which there are lonely swings, and the whole beautiful shaded cozy area around them, under sprawling paws, is overgrown with nettles and ivy ... And I also understand that even if I didn’t have a dacha at all, then I simply have to make houses for the children !!! My hands itched so that Ksyushka and I took up this business right that very evening.

As a basis, we took jars of infant formula, thoroughly coated with PVA diluted with water, and tightly wrapped toilet paper(there were no white napkins in the house). I won’t explain how to make papier-mâché here, otherwise it will take a long time.

The jars should be dry by tomorrow, but the energy is not wasted yet, our hands continue to itch and we immediately make the basis for the roof, risking smearing our white walls.


We crumple the foam packaging from some kind of equipment, wrap it with adhesive tape to hold the shape and put it on top of the jar. This is where our rafters will rest. As practice has shown, it is more convenient to rely on a small lump than on a large one (the rightmost bank). Broken sticks for sushi serve as rafters))). Everything is attached with hot glue. First, we take 3 longer sticks with beautiful tips, for a picturesque top near the roof, and fasten them. Then, with shorter and more terrible sticks, we shape the future roof.


It was decided to decorate each roof with a decorative element. Hands continue to itch and we cover one of the roofs with artificial leaves. That's it, I'm driving the child into bed, because we strive to get into not-dry napkins, and in general it's already night in the yard.

Stage two.
For good, of course, the house must first be decorated, and only then do the roof, so we don’t repeat yesterday’s mistakes, but first we deal with the walls. Laying out our riches, drawing on scraps cork wallpaper doors and cut them out.




The order is this: we fasten the door in the center, then glue the top ball, then squeeze out the hot-melt adhesive in small paths and sprinkle with broken shells. Then side balls and tracks to the bottom of the door. Then we walk around the balls, fixing small leaves (they are simply cut out of large purchased ones).
I just draw windows with a marker, I first wanted to stick a film on top for glossiness, but then I changed my mind, and it turns out so well. In the same order, we decorate the windows, then the basement of the house. The basement, together with the door, is pulled up quite high to the top, since it is planned to fill the houses on the ground with pebbles around the perimeter.


The order of the roof device: first we fix the bottom row of leaves, forming the necessary roof overhang, decorative elements carefully bend around.
Then we fasten the top row of leaves, covering the entire surface of the roof (so that the rain does not drip for the fairies). And finally we fix the last front leaf above the entrance. It no longer closes anything, but simply artistically lies in beautiful pose))) At his personal (purple) house, where the child decides everything himself, Ksyu demands to fix a ball on the roof. It's already optional.

And here are our beauties:


With gold bumps and fragments of shells...


With acorns and beads...


And rebenkin with cones and sand.

The houses are ready, but the evening is free and the child with hungry eyes asks: Mom, what are we going to do to the fairies today?...
So, already quite spontaneously, a pond is born from a cover from paints and a green gazebo.




And then, finally, everything comes to life and is filled with meaning ...

Now we are waiting for the rains to end and we will go to the cottage to the magical, now, pine.

You have many opportunities for interesting crafts that you don't even know about yet. For example, you can make a mini house for a fairy in the country or right at home.
For this you will need:
- Plastic container;
- Land (if you keep the fairy house at home, it is better to use the purchased land from the packages);
- Cardboard packaging from any product square or rectangular shape for the base;
- Wooden sticks for ice cream or special sticks for creativity (you can ask dad or grandfather to prepare sticks);
- Colored glass (processed not sharp), colored beads, colored buttons, sparkles, beads and everything that is at hand suitable for decorating a house;
- Glue for crafts;
- Plant seeds or ready-made sprouts;
- Ordinary sticks;
- Beautiful stones.

Fill the container with earth. Use river pebbles, special round glass, beads to decorate the area next to the future fairy house. You can, for example, lay out a beautiful path from glass or stones.

Pick up a cardboard base for the house, using food packaging and any other items. Partially cut out one of the sides so that the inside of the house is visible. By the way, you can take care of decorating the inside of the fairy house in advance and paste over it with colored paper, create an imitation of wallpaper.

If glued with wooden sticks cardboard box, then create an imitation wooden house, perfect for a forest fairy.

You can also glue various beads or colored buttons on the house.

Glued buttons and small stones make great miniature furniture. And on a wooden stick you can stick a sign (make an inscription on a small piece of cardboard) that this is a fairy house.

More than two years ago late autumn, looking at our sleepy garden, the son lamented sadly that the fairies had gone along with the harvested plants. Where will they live now? - lamented the son. It was then that the idea was born to build a haven for all the magical inhabitants of our garden, one in which they would like to live all year round. I promised to create a house and a garden for them, and promises, as you know, must be kept. So as soon as spring came and the snow storms gave way exuberant bloom, we started planning our fabulous farm.

Creating a fairy tale, I felt how worries recede, and I myself inevitably become a part of it, and the opportunity - at least with one eye - to look into Magic world son, felt like a precious gift given to me by the fairies in gratitude for our labors.

This year, starting to create our second garden, I dream that this hobby will become a family tradition, and that every year, together with the children, we would welcome spring in such a fabulous way. It seems to me that it is precisely through such creative traditions that the magic of childhood is preserved, which we later carry through life with magical and happy memories.

It is not difficult to make a fairytale village, but be sure to be patient and really enjoy the process. Haste is inappropriate here. You can buy accessories, or you can make your own, which, of course, is much more interesting! There are craftsmen who are made of thread, cardboard and plastic caps real miracles are created from toothpaste - watering cans, shovels and baskets. But when you create with a six-year-old and a one-year-old at your side, you have to learn to be simpler and enjoy simpler results.

A shovel is a stick and foil, a lake is a small glass vessel, a fire is a piece of red roving, a lantern over the entrance to the house is a dry poppy head, and buckets and other garden tools molded from clay. While working on the garden, we asked ourselves what do fairies and gnomes love? "Well, of course, everything is natural, born in nature," the answer echoed back to us. Stones, flowers, twigs, wood scraps, wool are the materials that are best suited for such a project. Plastic gazebo from the store cannot even come close (in the eyes of fairies and other small folk) to a hut built of branches, and the lovely finished cottage, no doubt, will lose next to the house painted by children's hands.

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Despite the foregoing, there are no real rules for construction. If everyone is having fun, then everything is going according to plan! The main thing is to enjoy every added little thing, do not forget about color (the little people love everything bright and colorful), do not be shy about sparkles (if your soul asks), give free rein to your imagination (your own and your child’s), and try to think outside the box, coming up with new uses for familiar objects. But for those who still need instructions, here general description steps that start any fairy garden.

First you need to find a container for the garden. Of course, it is desirable to look after something beautiful, and not limit yourself standard solutions. I saw gardens in ruins flower pots, in oak barrels, in wine boxes, in the ground, in rotten stumps ... Our first garden would be made, sorry, in a new cat litter box. The pet store was the only one that, living in the suburbs at the time, I could walk to with my two kids. However, this did not stop us, we decorated the edges of the trough with beautiful glass, and it was almost impossible to guess about the not very noble purpose of the vessel.

In order for the garden to be "alive," earth must be poured into the vessel - subsequently, the plants that we will plant there will grow in it. The earth can be poured evenly, or you can build a whole landscape, with hills and lowlands, mountains and hollows. How your garden will look depends on the size of the vessel and your imagination.

A garden cannot be a garden if there are no plants in it. But what to plant so that the fairies do not drown in foliage and tangled stems? Moss is best suited for this task. For our first garden, I could not find moss in the store, but, fortunately, we found it in our backyard. After digging up a few pieces of moss, we "patched" the bare ground with it where we planned the open space, and left the plots prepared for the house, lake and path empty. This year, the moss was on sale in the greenhouse, it is more beautiful and fluffy than wild, and even blooms with small white flowers!

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As trees, you can adapt any plant with small leaves. You can buy a bonsai for this purpose, or you can simply cut off any beautiful small branch and stick it into the damp ground; with regular watering, she will live all summer - checked! The Kalanchoe branch worked well for us, which in the end even gave roots. For the "bushes" this year I used thyme. But even here, the only limit is your imagination, because even a strategically placed dandelion bush can be a great hiding place for fairies.

When the landscape is ready, you can proceed to the architectural delights. Houses for fairies can be very different. As always, the easiest way is to go out and buy, but there are so many magical creative moments lost that I don't recommend taking that route. After all, there are many interesting techniques, blanks, and available materials, which will help you make the house beautiful, regardless of your technical or artistic talents.

I saw houses in the form of decorative mini-birdhouses, houses assembled from cones, houses made using papier-mâché, houses made from cut plastic bottles, houses made of felt and cardboard, ceramic and wooden, and even houses made of crispy sticks, in general, whatever !

We made our first house with the help of a constructor, in which it was assumed from wooden blanks assemble a small wooden cottage (which has nothing to do with fairies). The house turned out to be boring, which the son quickly corrected - he painted it with his own hands and glued it with sparkles, after which the house was erected in its rightful place.

This year I took a few small ones. flower pots, glued them together with hot glue, cut out a window in one of the walls, and then, for a pleasant texture, glued the house on all sides thin paper. To make the roof, I took coffee stirrers and (again with hot glue) glued them around on a flat cardboard cone. Then I connected - with the same glue - both parts and gave the house to my son for painting. Later, we decorated the walls of the house together with sparkles, as well as dry and artificial flowers. The windows are made of air-drying clay, the door is made of coffee sticks glued together, and doorhandle- button.

The landscape is ready, the house is ready - it's time to get down to the details! At this point, usually, fantasy begins to run amok for real. Watering cans, shovels, buckets, carts, a vegetable garden with carrots sticking out of the ground, a clothesline with tiny pantaloons, gazebos, benches, the name of the street and house, a welcome sign, funny flags, a lake with a boat in it, lanterns, a stream with a a bridge - all this is only a small fraction of what you can fill your garden with.

Garden decorations offered by our supermarkets are fairly standard. Of course, funny gnomes, funny frogs and other plaster trinkets look very cute, but they can no longer surprise anyone. And if you want to make your garden not like everyone else, then you have to spend time and work a little with your hands.

Today we offer you small master class to create cozy house for fairies. Like in the photo below.

For its "construction" you will need the following materials:
· professional carpentry glue;
the basis of the future home (in our case, the lower half of the plastic five liter bottle);
plastic plate for the roof;
small stones such as pebbles;
· tweezers;
polyurethane glue or shellac (lay and gel in one);
polyethylene bags.

Preparatory stage
It is most convenient to work with pebbles, which can be found on the beaches. If this is not possible, then small pebbles can be bought at large construction supermarkets. For the inability to purchase the desired stone, you can take the usual gravel, which is used in the construction of roads. Then it will be varnished and will look very good.

• In principle, any stone can be used. The main thing is that it should be small in size, and one of its sides should be even and smooth. Such pebbles can be glued to any surface, be it glass, wood or plastic, as in our case.

• After the pebbles are found, you need to sort. All material must be disassembled in size so that the stones in each group are approximately the same. Large ones should be disposed of immediately. They are of no use to us.
• Now the stones need to be prepared. To knock off all the adhering sand from them, if you collected stones on the street, you need to put the material in plastic box and rinse under running water running water. This procedure will wash off all the sand and remove dirt from the surface of the stones.
  Before starting work, the pebbles must be dry and completely cleaned.

Getting Started

• Squeeze wood glue onto the surface of the package and distribute it in an even, fairly thick layer over the surface of the cellophane. Too much large area no need to spray right away. Glue can be added if necessary.
• Now we begin to lay out our pebbles prepared for work glue flat side down. You need to place them as close to each other as possible.
• Remaining between the pebbles small spaces also needs to be filled out. Here, with the help of tweezers, you need to paste the smallest specimens. The result should be a cast stone platform without "gaps", i.e. There should be no empty spaces left. It is necessary to collect at least four such sites so that the work on decorating the house does not freeze.
  Now you have to wait about forty minutes. This is enough for the glue to grab well and connect the pebbles, but its layer remains flexible.
  If you can lift the corner of the stone platform, and it remains intact, then you can proceed to the next stage of "building" the house for the fairies.

• We will need such stone platforms for surface decoration houses in the bend area. After all, pebbles can only be glued on straight lines.
• Now in the prepared plastic bottle you need to cut out future doors and windows. And you can start pasting it with prepared stone squares. If on reverse side The glue has already dried up enough, then it can be lubricated again. Do not worry that the pebbles will fall apart or the surface will peel off. Wood glue holds very well.
• After the house is completely pasted over, for additional strengthening and as a protection from the weather, the building must be covered with several layers of varnish. When the coating dries, you can glue artificial moss and other decorations and the fairy house is ready to move from the desktop to permanent place to your garden.