My Fairy Garden website is a delightful place that children can visit and get to know the fairies that live in the various Fairy Garden toys. From Belle who comes with Fairy Garden to Lily who comes with Lilypad Gardens, they all have their own style and personality to go with their houses.
As you can see with Lilypad Gardens above, the set is lovely and child friendly, perfect for introducing children to gardening as they can grow something in the pot and play with the accessories each time they water the plant. I just love the large saucer for this set that excess water will go into, there are little lily pads to float in the water and the drawbridge comes down for the fairy to walk across – how cute!
Each set is different and features it’s own fairy, you can find out about them all on the website as well as lots of other activities. There are printable colouring sheets, spot the differences, ideas of things to make such as a twig ladder for the fairies to use. There are also fun online games and quizzes. Well worth trying out the Which Fairy are you quiz? to see which fairy you are most like. It’s a simple multiple choice quiz which will give you the answer in minutes.
We also love the Flower Puzzle game, with 10 levels to get through. You have to match different pairs of flowers up without crossing the path of another pair. Both my children have sat down playing this with much fun trying to get further through the levels each time. Why not give it a try – great for rainy day fun!
If your child loves fairies then make sure you check out the My Fairy Garden website for lots of fun, games and more!
The Fairy Garden comes with the pot, all the accessories and grass seeds, you just need to add a small amount of soil. It is designed to be kept inside so you can watch it everyday, water it as necessary and cut the grass if desired.
Miss M really enjoyed putting the garden together, there are also some plastic flowers on stems to push into the soil and the last job is to sprinkle the uncovered soil in grass seed. As a twinkly final touch there are some glittery stars to make your garden sparkle.
With this set aimed at age 4+, you would need parental assistance to put this together. Miss M is 8 and enjoyed it but did need me to guide her and assist in a few small areas like assembling the house and putting the washing line together.
The kit comes with practically everything you need to produce these little creatures, all you need to add is some bottled or rain water. You get a water tank included to grow you Triops in along with a sachet of triop eggs, triop food, sand, pipette and a spoon.
The set is recommended for 7yrs plus and 8yr old Miss M was eager to try it out. It is very simple to set up and simply requires the water to be added to the tank along with the detritus (dirt and eggs) sprinkled across the top.
It’s then a case of waiting…. and I have to admit after about 4 or 5 days I thought nothing was going to happen, but then about a week later I spotted some small white flutterings in the water. We then all eagerly came down each morning to see how much they’d grown and loved seeing them swimming about in the tank.
5 yr old Mister B loved their beady black eyes which are really quite prominent. Miss M loved the role of feeding them just a small shake from the food sachet provided every few days. They have soon grown and we can see so much more detail on them. We have three and they love swimming around together. We have also added the little packet of sand to the bottom of the tank for them to scurry about in.
This has been a fascinating activity to have in the home and we are still enjoying them day to day and can’t wait to see how big the Triops finally grow to. Apparently they lay eggs in the sand which you can dry out and reuse to hatch another batch of Triops, so that is something we may try again afterwards. Triop World is a great way to get closer to nature and actually a bit different from the normal activities we have at home so I think this has been a great educational success and something I’d recommend trying out.
