A Mini Herb Fairy Garden is a fun edible herb garden for your kitchen! This easy tutorial for making a mini fairy garden for your home is such a cute craft idea or DIY Gift for any occasion. Put this easy home garden craft on your summer to-do list!
How to Make the Cutest Herb Fairy Garden
I’ve always wanted to make our own fairy garden! Get yourself or your kids excited about planting flowers or growing fruits, herbs or vegetables by welcoming fairies with an adorable Kitchen Herb Fairy Garden.
We love all things fairy and this simple herb fairy garden was the perfect addition to my new kitchen.
I’m so excited to share my Kitchen Herb Fairy Garden tutorial today. Let’s get to planting!
Easy Edible Fairy Garden
Making a Kitchen Fairy Garden is a wonderful activity to do with your kids this summer! You can make your fairy garden with flowers, but for ours, we chose herbs that we can use in recipes.
A fairy garden can be for outdoors or indoors, in a fancy flower pot or a simple box. The ideas are endless!
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How to Make a Kitchen Fairy Garden
This tutorial for making a fairy garden for your kitchen is super easy and hopefully brings you some magical inspiration for a fun craft to do with your family or friends!
1. Decide on a Fairy Garden Theme
First of all, you want to decide on your fairy garden theme. Be sure to get the kids involved with this process. Shopping for fairy garden accessories is half of the fun!
Will it be a magical garden with a little house and swing set to welcome fairies each night? Or will you decide on a theme based on your favorite hobbies, toys, time period or animals?
I love chickens, so had to add a cute chicken coop to ours!
Here are some fun fairy garden theme ideas to get you started:
- Cats
- Dogs
- Farm
- Carnival
- Dinosaurs
- Trolls
- Gnomes
- Horses
- Camping
- Playground
- Log Cabin
- Medieval Times
2. Choose Your Container
Since our herb fairy garden was for our kitchen, I chose a galvanized container that matched my kitchen decor. You can put a fairy garden in just about any kind of container, you don’t need to limit yourself to the usual terracotta flower pot.
3. Choose the Fairy Garden Herbs
Think about what herbs you would use the most. I love adding fresh mint to my drinks, so mint was definitely on my list of herbs to buy. Because I make a lot of pasta dishes, oregano and basil were on my list as well. If you have a larger container, add some colorful flowering plants as well.
4. Choose the Soil
When growing any kind of food, such as herbs, it’s best to use organic potting soil.
5. Design Your Fairy Garden
Now that you have your accessories, container, herbs and soil, you are ready to start designing your magical fairy garden!
If using a container with no drain like I did, protect it by lining the container with plastic. Then add some rocks to the bottom before adding the soil. This will help the water drain and not drown your plants if you over-water them.
Fill your container with potting soil and add your favorite plants and flowers making sure to think of the scene you want to create as you plant. Add various heights and take note to leave space for plant growth.
Before planting herbs, loosen the soil at the bottom so the roots are exposed to the soil.
Add Fairy Accessories
Moss, pebbles and twinkling lights are great to have when creating a magical fairy garden.
Place near a window and enjoy!
Didn’t this turn out adorable? It was so easy and fun to make. We are looking forward to fairies coming to visit!
Herb Fairy Garden
Supplies
- Herbs
- Potting Soil
- Container
- Fairy Garden Decor
Instructions
- Add soil to your container. If using a container with no drain, protect it by lining the container with plastic. Then add some rocks to the bottom before adding the soil. This will help the water drain and not drown your plants if you over-water them.
- Loosen the soil at the bottom of each plant, so the roots are exposed to the soil.
- Plant your favorite herbs, plants and flowers. Add various heights and take note to leave space for plant growth.
- Decorate with moss, doll house items, pebbles and twinkling lights for a magical fairy garden.
Originally published May 31, 2017 updated 2025.
Creating a fairy garden can indeed be a fun and engaging activity for children, fostering their interest in gardening and nature. It’s great to hear that you’re partnering with Ecoscraps and appreciating their approach to sustainable soil production.
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This is looking beautiful. I really liked this Herb Fairy Garden for a kitchen. You did an amazing job.
This post is amazing! Thank you for sharing! This has been something I have been struggling with for a while now…
Wow, it’s beautiful! I love every aspect of your garden decorations. So many fantastic ideas here! Love!
I love the idea.
This is such a cute idea! Love it!
That will be so cute! Please share a photo over on my Facebook page. I’d love to see how it turns out:-)
Hi Amy. I have a large “lantern” which looks like a greenhouse that I intend to use for a fairy garden. Yours is adorable.