Fairy Houses for Kids
📝 This post, Fairy House, was originally published in 20123and has been updated with new information and resources.
I have to admit, I was a little fired up when I first wrote this post!
My boys and I had spent the afternoon making fairy houses, and when I mentioned it to a few people, I got the look.
“Really? Fairy houses…with boys?”
Well, heck yes!
My boys absolutely loved it. What could be more fun than building a tiny house and imagining all the possibilities that go with it? You wouldn’t believe the questions they had about fairies or the stories they came up with while we worked. It turned out to be one of the most enjoyable afternoons we’d spent creating together.
So yes, my boys made fairy houses, and I’m still not the least bit embarrassed to say it. 💚
What You’ll Need
✔️ rocks
✔️sticks
✔️string
✔️pieces of wood
✔️hot glue gun
✔️pine cone
✔️dirt
✔️and, really, anything else you find around the yard or neighborhood
How We Made Our Fairy House
I originally planned to collect all of our sticks from around the yard and neighborhood, but I couldn’t find nearly enough. In the end, we (gasp!) bought a bundle of sticks from Joann and picked up a small piece of wood to use as the base.
Would I have preferred to gather everything from nature? Sure. But sometimes there are only so many hours in the day, and I’m just trying to keep the house reasonably clean and my kids fed! Sometimes buying the supplies is the difference between actually doing the project and never getting around to it.
The best part? I had absolutely no plan.
I didn’t sketch out the houses or decide what they should look like ahead of time. Instead, I simply followed my boys’ lead and put the hot glue wherever they wanted it.
My oldest carefully stood each stick upright and reinforced the walls with horizontal sticks. My younger son needed a little more help, so together we leaned two sticks together to form a teepee-style structure before gluing everything into place.
Once the basic houses were finished, the real fun began.
The boys decorated them however they wanted. I even let them use the hot glue gun. I know not every parent is comfortable with that, but I stayed right beside them the entire time.
The Best Part Was the Imaginative Play
As soon as the houses were finished, they carried them outside to their “work area” in the yard and immediately got to work expanding their tiny village.
They built tunnels, walls, pathways, and all sorts of additions. One house even ended up with a swimming pool (that’s the blue piece in the photos!).
And then, true to the nature of boys, my oldest dumped a pile of dry dirt over everything.
His explanation?
“They look better that way.”
Honestly…he wasn’t wrong.
A Fairy House That Keep Inspiring Play
The fairy houses still live tucked into little nooks around our yard between the bushes, where they’re perfectly at home.
I imagine they’ll continue taking on new roles for years to come. They’ll become homes for fairies, of course, but they’ll also be Lego villages, Playmobil hideouts, fire stations, castles, secret headquarters, and whatever else my boys can dream up.
Sometimes the simplest projects end up creating the biggest adventures.
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I love how the boys did these themselves. I have shared this on my Magical Things Fairy Day Roundup post.
When made fairy houses for my daughter’s birthday party. I glued basic structures together on cardboard cake platters and then let them decorate with moss, shells, potpourri, glass stones and beach glass. For the guys we just called them “gnome homes”. Problem solved.
Love this post and love that you did it with your boys. They look great, are thoughtfully constructed and adorned, and will likely be used for several play options as you mentioned. Thanks for posting!
My kids made fairy houses with my husband last summer using recycled containers. I’d love to do it again with natural materials. How fun!
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The boys have done an awesome job of their faerie houses! I did a fairy garden with my three year old son complete with bunting! He loves it and so do I 🙂
It’s such a shame people are like that. I had a conversation with my parents the other day about Peppa Pig and that they were told its for girls…yeah right! My son loves it! I think this fairy house idea is great and in actual fact I was going to turn an old bathtub that’s in our backyard into a fairy garden for my son.
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I can’t believe people can be so narrow minded! I love seeing your boys at work making their fairy houses! What great fun.
It annoys me so much how people are happy for girls to do “boy” activities, but they raise eyebrows when boys do “girl” activities. I say, when they are young, let them do them all! Why should boys miss out on half of the fun.
PS: Your houses look fantastic.
How wonderful – I will be sharing this on the FB page International Fairy Tea Party – as proof that BOYS love to get in on the fairy action too!
Well I just love your fairy houses. We have a spot all picked out in the garden for some of our own. Yours are just divine 🙂
Thank you so much Kate! Can’t wait to hear how it goes. 🙂