A quick and simple tutorial on how to make a fairy garden sensory tray.
Step 1: First buy a garden tray, 60x60cm should be big enough, we got ours from Amazon:
Step 2: Buy some pvc green leather for the lower base, you can get it from here:
Step 3: Make some green coloured rice for the bottom layer, tutorial here. ray the rice on the mid-right hand side of the tray
Step 4: Crush up some digestive biscuits and make a tiny sandpit with paper. Put the crushed up digestives in the tiny sand pit.
Step 5: Get some fake grass and put in on the top right and left of the tray, we got ours for free from some grass websites, they sent us these small samples.
Step 6: Make a river with blue cardboard and blue plastic paper, then put it in the mid-top of the tray, you can pick up craft sets from local pound shops:
Step 7: Crush up some Weetabix for woodchips and place them on the left hand side of the tray:
Step 8: Add some cardboard fences, you can get them from here:
Step 7: Make a cocopops and crave pathway down the centre like in the pictures above.
Step 8: Add cocopops to the flowerbeds on the right hand side:
Step 9: Buy some flat back plastic daisy flowers from Amazon for cheap:
Step 10: Make some sunflower pots by following this tutorial here, and put them on the right hand side:
Step 11: Add bush and tree wooden blocks, we got ours from a wooden train set:
Step 12: Add the wooden building blocks on top of the weetabix woodchips:
Step 13: Add a swing and seesaw on top of the green rice, I made these myself with toothpicks, lolly sticks and random things found around the house:
Step 14: Add some tiny ducks to the water, these can be found here:
Step 15: Add some tiny mushrooms to the grass, these can be bought from here:
Step 16: Add a beehive, you can make your own by following our tutorial here:
Step 17: Add a fairy house, I made my own out of cardboard, lolly sticks, glue and buttons:
Step 18: Add some mini hedgehogs for the grass next to the fairy house, you can buy them from here:
Step 19: Put some lolly sticks in water for 24 hours and then bend them to make a bridge over the water:
If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comment section.
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