Growing a Green Bean Teepee: Our Summer Project
Kids can make a green bean teepee for a fun summer hideout. A perfect summertime garden project for even the smallest backyard.
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Dinosaur Terrariums Inspired by Prehistoric Planet
After watching Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV+, we created these dinosaur-themed fairy gardens to study the different habitats that dinosaurs inhabited during ...
Butterfly Life Cycle Project
Grow your own butterflies and watch their life cycle as they turn from caterpillars into chrysalis. My son’s kindergarten class planned to study the l...
A Pill Bug Trap Made from a Potato
Pill bugs, or rollie polies, can eat crop plants in a vegetable or fruit garden. Learn how to make a trap out of a potato to stop them from eating your tender p...
Mini Chairs
Make a mini chair for Marvel Studio’s Ant-man and the Wasp to use while they are small. Or make one of these miniature director’s chairs to add to your fair...
Self-Watering Planter
Make a self-watering planter or wicking-bucket to keep your plants healthy and well-watered. Perfect for a patio garden or any yard.
I learned how to make a ...
10 Succulent Planter Ideas
Here’s ten ways to showcase your favorite succulent plants. Each succulent planter would make a great gift or beautiful decor for your home.
Succulents ha...
How to Maintain and Refinish a Wood Deck
A wood deck needs to be well-maintained and refinished often. Make that job easier by using the right tools.
In my post on Reclaiming a Worn Out Deck, I told...
Reclaiming a Worn Out Deck
A wood deck that has seen better days can still be restored to a beautiful and functional space. With some hard work and the right supplies, you can make it u...
Planting a Succulent Garden
A succulent garden is easy to grow and care for. There are just a few things to remember when planting these beautiful drought-tolerant plants.
Last week I...
Principles of Garden Design
Use the principles of design to make your garden look beautiful and well-designed. Create proportion, emphasis, balance, movement, rhythm, and unity in your lan...
Fairy Garden Fun
We've created lots of fun fairy houses and accessories for our backyard fairy garden, including a campsite with a teepee, campfire, and even a cave to explore ...
Building a Sandbox and The U.S. Sand Sculpting Challenge
Inspired by the upcoming U.S. Sand Sculpting Challenge, we built a kids’ sandbox in our backyard. Read about the Sand Sculpting event and how to build your ow...
How to Make a Fairy Garden Fence
Make a simple DIY fairy garden fence with popsicle sticks and wire. It adds the perfect miniature detail to any fairy garden.
For the final piece from my dau...
Create a Fairy Garden in a Flower Pot
Create your own personal fairy garden in a flower-pot. Fairy gardens don’t need to be big, after all, fairies are small. You just need a flower-pot.
For my...
A Fairy Garden Birthday Party
Fairy gardens are really popular right, so my daughter wanted a fairy garden party for her birthday this year. The guests each made their own personal fairy gar...
A Fairy House Made from an Old Bottle
Building a fairy house doesn’t need to cost a lot, or even anything. It just needs some imagination. Fairies love creativity. They also love nature. An...
DIY Rain Barrel
A rain barrel is wonderful for saving rainwater to water plants later. It’s also an easy DIY home project.
All of the rain we’ve gotten this year has bee...
The Irrigation Timer
An irrigation timer is a must-have for my garden so I can set it and forget about watering the plants myself. The timer gives them just the right amount of wate...
A Drip System is an Easy Way to Save Time and Water
A drip system is the most convenient and efficient way to water plants and care for a garden. A drip system is also very easy to install.
I love drip system...
Build a Beautiful Garden Box
With just a few fence boards, we built a beautiful 2-foot tall, wood garden box for just under $20.
We have the perfect spot for a vegetable garden. It’s s...
How to Choose and Lay Sod
The final part of putting in our lawn is installing the sod. Most of the work now is preparing for the ground for the sod.
If you haven't already, take a lo...
How to Install a Sprinkler System: Part 2
Installing a sprinkler system is definitely a DIY project any homeowner can tackle. Connecting to the house’s water supply was difficult. Installing th...
How to Install Irrigation Valves: Part 1 of the Sprinkler System
Installing a sprinkler system for a lawn and other landscaping requires connecting to a water supply, adding a backflow prevention device, and installing valves...
How to Take a Soil Test
We are putting in a new lawn soon and other plant in our backyard. To prepare, we need to get the soil ready, but how do we know what our soil needs? We take a ...
A Small Retaining Wall
A small retaining wall can prevent erosion and can add to the design of your backyard landscape.
Are you starting to plan your yard improvement projects for...
Home Improvement Resolutions
Home improvements are so much more fun than improving myself, so this year all of my New Year’s resolutions are goals for my home. These are the major proje...
Succulent Tea Cup Pots
I planted succulents in tea cup pots as a charming and practical gift to give to some of my good friends. They were pretty simple to make, and they turned out r...
How to Protect Exposed Wood from Water Damage
Exposed wood + water is a bad thing, so when I noticed the wood post holding up our patio going into the wet ground, I knew something had to be done. I’ll sho...
A Fun Way to Repurpose Window Wells
Happy Halloween! Today, I’m excited to share a very creative upcycling project: repurposing window wells into fun, little playhouses.
When Pam leveled her ...
Retaining Wall on a Slope
We built a retaining wall on the slope behind our house to give us more usable space, and it opened up our backyard and gave us a lot more room.
Half of our...
Fairy Garden Park
Build a fun park for your fairy to swing, slide, and play in your fairy garden, as explained by a 7 year-old.
Both of my daughters really like making fairy ...