Painted rocks made into fairy houses are an easy DIY fairy garden accessory that both kids and adults can make. This simple step-by-step DIY tutorial teaches how to make a painted rock fairy house craft with a single stone.
Use the step-by-step craft instructions and DIY video tutorial below to make fairy houses with painted rocks. Rock painting ideas, such as this cute fairy house craft, are the perfect accessory for fairy gardens!
Rock painting ideas like this amazing DIY fairy house make it easy to create fairy houses for your fairy garden or turn your whole yard into a magical garden filled with fairy garden houses hidden here and there.
Children love to find miniature fairy homes hiding in their yards. Make some fairy house-painted rocks to surprise your children today! You might also enjoy these Rock Painting Ideas for kids and adults of all ages.
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DIY Fairy House Rock Painting Idea:
This fairy house rock painting idea is fun and easy for kids and adults to make. You only need natural materials and some paint pens to make fairy houses for your fairy garden or backyard.
Painted rocks and fairy house roofs may need to be replaced often, depending on what they are made of, whether and how they are played with, and where they are kept. Take the materials you use into consideration when making your fairy house nature craft. The directions below provide more information.
Update 2019:Â We have had our DIY fairy house painted rocks placed out in our yard and garden for a little over a year now, and so far, the paint has not run in the rain, nor have they begun to fade from sun exposure. However, many of the bark roofs that we made for our fairy house craft have had to be replaced. We have also discovered that using paint pens to paint roofs instead of tree bark makes fairy garden houses just as magical.
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Fairy House Craft Supplies:
- Rocks or stones
- Choose one of the following to paint rocks:
- Extra fine-tip paint pen multipackÂ
- Extra fine-tip pastel paint pens
- Black and white paint pens
- Tree bark, leaves, moss, construction paper, or paint pens to make the roof of the fairy house craft
- Low-temperature glue gun with glue sticks or glue dots (optional for gluing on a roof)
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How to Make a Fairy House with a Rock or Stone Step-by-Step Rock Painting Tutorial:
We have also included a DIY fairy house video tutorial that makes learning how to make a fairy house easy. You can find it below the written fairy house craft directions.
1. Gather materials to make fairy houses:
- First, go on a nature hunt to gather rocks or stones that will work to make painted rocks into fairy garden houses.
- Collect rocks or stones that sit nicely and look like a fairy house. Look for squared or rounded stones with a flat edge.
- Rocks with a flat edge that they can sit upon to turn into a beautiful DIY fairy house.
- You will also need to find tree bark, leaves, wood chips, moss, or any other material that you can use to make a roof for a fairy house.
- If you can not find any natural materials that will work, try some construction paper cut in odd shapes.
- Alternatively, you can use paint pens to draw a roof onto the rock instead.
- If you can not find any natural materials that will work, try some construction paper
cut in odd shapes. 
2. Use a paint pen to draw a door and windows on each rock fairy house craft:
- Paint pens make painting rock crafts like these fairy houses easy.
- Start by drawing a door on the rock fairy house.
- Then make small windows in any shape you like.
- Don’t worry about making them neat. Crooked windows and doors add character to each fairy house!
- My daughter and I found it easy to paint doors, windows, and roofs onto rocks to make a DIY fairy house!
- Some fairy garden houses take forever, while these beauties can be made in minutes.
make painting rock crafts like these fairy houses easy. 3. Glue (or paint) a roof onto painted rocks to complete the fairy house craft:
- There is no need to create perfect painted rocks with perfect roofs to make these fairy house crafts.
- Crooked, odd, and misshapen fairy house roofs all add to the character of each DIY fairy house. Get creative and have fun making fairy garden houses!
- As mentioned in the update above, we have had our DIY fairy house painted rocks placed out in our yard and garden for a little over a year now and so far the paint has not run in the rain, nor have they begun to fade from sun exposure.
- Many of the bark roofs that we made for our fairy house craft, however, have had to be replaced. We have also discovered that using paint pens to paint roofs, instead of using tree bark, make fairy garden houses just as magical.
to paint roofs, instead of using tree bark, make fairy garden houses just as magical.
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DIY Fairy House Video Tutorial:
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More Rock Painting Ideas for Kids:
Painted rocks, like these fairy garden houses, are fun for children and adults. For more rock painting ideas like this fairy house craft, check out this fantastic guide to rock painting, which includes our favorite painted rocks.
Easy Fairy House Craft for Kids and Adults:
Painted rock crafts like this fairy house craft idea are easy to make and fun for children to play with.
My daughter loves to use fairy garden houses as props for imaginary play in her backyard DIY fairy garden and fairy winter wonderland small world.
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a really nice way of instructing a person searching for the easiest way of setting up a Fairy Garden ! Amazing ! Heart Felt Thanks !!!!!
Thank you for your kind words, Dr. Surekha Sharma! I’m so glad that you have found this article useful. 🙂 My daughter and I love to make turn gardens into fairy gardens with these sweet little painted rock fairy houses!
I just move back to Oregon from Kansas and had to leave my fairy garden behind along with my Nome garden so I’m going to do another one here I will send you pictures when I’m done with it.. making a rock flower garden as well.cant wait to get them done so I can show you..
Hi Carmetta,
It’s always hard to say goodbye to the homes and gardens that we nurture. I’m glad that you are looking forward to making a new one in your new home. I look forward to seeing it. 🙂