Fairy Gardening

Fairy Gardening

Author: Julie Bawden-Davis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-02-22

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 162636186X

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Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete with pint-sized accessories, diminutive plants, and quaint fairy figures. Gardeners Julie Bawden-Davis and Beverly Turner provide you with step-by-step instructions for creating a magical garden that will attract Thumbelina herself! Learn how to design, plant, accessorize, and care for your very own small corner of the world by following seven simple steps, including choosing the perfect container, planting luxurious pint-sized plants, decorating with properly scaled accessories, and telling a story through the delicate fairies you choose to inhabit your magical wonderland. Included are full-color photographs showcasing various types of fairy gardens and accessories, which are sure to inspire the designer in you! And best of all, these perennial gardens are perfect for the busy gardener, as they require less than ten minutes per week to maintain—this could be your new favorite hobby! For the inner child in us all, Fairy Gardening is sure to enchant both the novice and the experienced gardener who wishes to stir up Lilliputian flights of fancy.


Fairy Garden Handbook

Fairy Garden Handbook

Author: Liza Gardner Walsh

Publisher: Down East Books

Published: 2013-02-08

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 160893215X

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The popularity of fairies and fairy houses has soared, as has the growing movement to get children interested in outdoor activities such as gardening. This new how-to book for parents and kids combines the best of both worlds. It includes basic information for beginning gardeners, such as soil preparation, planting, and watering, then branches into appropriate categories for every fairy gardener: •making miniature gardens and terrariums that are just the right size for fairy friends •butterfly and hummingbird gardens to attract these flying friends of fairies •rock gardens •water gardens •wind chimes and prisms to add music and light to your gardens Sprinkled throughout are bits of fairy lore and garden wisdom. Written for children, or anyone with a child’s heart, and filled with color photographs, the Fairy Garden Handbook will turn curious kids into green thumbs in no time.


Fairy Gardening 101

Fairy Gardening 101

Author: Fiona McDonald

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1629142824

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Release your inner child and step into the fairy world by creating your own enchanted garden, no matter how much space you have! Fairy gardens are increasing in popularity and Fairy Gardening 101 provides you with all the information necessary to design, plant, and care for your very own miniature garden oasis. Author, artist, and fairy gardener extraordinaire Fiona McDonald introduces readers to the history of fairy gardens and then provides step-by-step instructions, photographs, and illustrations for you to follow—or draw inspiration from—when starting your own project. Learn which types of plants and containers are most successful for a fairy garden, as well as how to develop a focal point for your enchanted mini Eden. Fairy Gardening 101 also provides important information on caring for your garden, on designing gardens for both indoors and outside, on using artificial plants to make your garden last a lifetime, and much more! You’ll also find inspirational photos from fairy gardeners around the globe as well as a list of suppliers. You don’t need to be a master gardener or to have a particularly green thumb to successfully plant and maintain your tiny fairy garden. All you need is a few miniature plants, some thoughtfully placed accessories, a fairy or two, and a love of whimsy and imagination.


Writing in a Fairy Garden

Writing in a Fairy Garden

Author: Fantastica

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-09

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781718649330

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This adorable fairy garden notebook contains 150 children handwriting pages. Dimensions are 8.5x11 inches. The whimsical fairy cover turns sitting at a desk or table into writing in a fairy garden. Check out "Stories from a Fairy Garden" by Fantastica for handwriting pages each with a framed blank space for a picture.


My Fairy Garden

My Fairy Garden

Author: Maggie Bateson

Publisher: Eli

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13: 9780333781258

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A 3D carousel fairy garden with press-out figures. Come and visit the fairies at the bottom of the garden - everyone is busy for a wedding. Peep inside the house and take the fairy figures through the enchanted garden, where they can sail across the brook and dance until dawn.


Fairy Gardens Magic Painting Book

Fairy Gardens Magic Painting Book

Author: Lesley SIMS

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781474904582

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Brush the pages of this book with water and see the fairies and flowers in the enchanted garden burst into beautiful colour! There are 16 scenes to paint with intricate, black and white illustrations of a fairy garden covered in snow, a lake of lily pads, a fairy fruit patch and lots more. With a fold-out back cover to prevent colours running onto the page beneath.


The Garden Classroom

The Garden Classroom

Author: Cathy James

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1611801648

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Creative ways to use the garden to inspire learning, for kids ages 4-8 Packed with garden-based activities that promote science, math, reading, writing, imaginative play, and arts and crafts, The Garden Classroom offers a whole year of outdoor play and learning ideas—however big or small your garden. Every garden offers children a rich, sensory playground, full of interesting things to discover and learn about. There's a whole lot of science happening right before their eyes. The garden can also be a place to develop math and literacy skills, as the outdoors offers up plenty of invitations to weave learning into everyday gardening. The garden classroom is a place where plants grow, and where children grow too.


Dirty Teaching

Dirty Teaching

Author: Juliet Robertson

Publisher: Crown House Publishing

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 178135149X

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One of the keys to a happy and creative classroom is getting out of it and this book will give you the confidence to do just that. Drawing on academic research, Juliet explains why learning outdoors is so beneficial and provides plenty of tips and activities to help you to integrate outdoor learning into your teaching practice, providing a broad range of engaging outdoor experiences for your students. There is no need for expensive tools or complicated technologies: all you need is your coat and a passion for learning - oh, and you'd better bring the kids too! Topics covered include: forest schools, learning outside the classroom, outdoor education, nature activities, caring for the environment, play in schools, investigative play, urban outdoor activities, problem solving, creative thinking and strategies for supporting curriculum objectives. For all primary practitioners who want to shake up their usual classroom routine and discover the benefits of teaching outdoors. Dirty Teaching was a finalist in the Non-Fiction People's Book Prize Winter 2014 collection.


The Fairy Garden

The Fairy Garden

Author: Georgia Buckthorn

Publisher:

Published: 2022-04-05

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0711271763

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The Fairy Garden is a delightful story of a young girl who finds fairies in her garden, who deliver a message to her about protecting their habitat


Stories from a Fairy Garden

Stories from a Fairy Garden

Author: Fantastica

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-09

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781718648074

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This adorable fairy garden notebook contains 150 children's handwriting pages, each with a framed blank space for a picture. Dimensions are 8.5x11 inches. The whimsical fairy cover turns sitting at a desk or table into writing in a fairy garden. Check out "Writing in a Fairy Garden" by Fantastica for handwriting pages without the picture frame.