How to Make Miniature Garden Tools

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This weekend my kids and I figured out how to make miniature garden tools for fairy gardens!

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We were inspired to make the fairies a shovel and rake because recently we made polymer clay veggies for them to “harvest”… and obviously they needed garden tools to go with!

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Because we were making these mini garden tools on the spur of the moment, we just used things we had laying around the house. (I like it best when my fairy garden addiction doesn’t cost anything LOL.)

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DIY Mini Garden Tools for a Gairy Garden

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Here’s what we used to make the fairies their garden tools:

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How to make a miniature shovel

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After you make your dent, you can trim your “wrapping edges” down be just about as wide as the spade. It should look something like this:

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Apply super glue at the bottom of the handle, where you will wrap the extra aluminum flaps. Lastly, I used rubbing alcohol and a q-tip to remove the black marker from the edges of the shovel.

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