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How to Make Miniature Vegetables for a Fairy Garden

I’m sure fairies are hands-on and earthy… they wouldn’t just run to supermarket for their produce. (I’m 99% sure they only eat what they grow or forage?) A fall fairy garden isn’t complete without some sort of harvest style décor – like baskets of fresh veggies just waiting to be taken inside. (And maybe some mini garden tools for tending the veggie patch too?) You can purchase doll-house style produce for your fairy gardens, like carrots and peppers (and even cute crates to store them in), but like the fairies, I find there’s something so much more satisfying about creating them yourself!

Polymer clay is such a fun way to make fairy garden décor – it’s easy to use and the possibilities are absolutely ENDLESS for what you can do with it. I have used it in the past to doors for my fairy houses, ladders to help the fairies reach new heights, and tiny toadstools (probably my favorite polymer clay creation so far). Recently my kids and I used polymer clay to create adorable baskets of miniature veggies – and I think you (and your fairies) are gonna LOVE these!

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How to Make Polymer Clay Veggies for a Fairy Garden

In this tutorial, I make carrots, tomatoes, and onions in a basket. But you could make literally anything! This summer I am going to add some cabbages, zucchinis, and pumpkins to our collection.

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What you’ll need to make miniature polymer clay veggies:

white polymer clayred polymer clayorange polymer claygreen polymer claybrown or tan polymer clay – ( any other colors of clay you’d like to use) – Knife – liquid bakeable clay (or white glue)

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Begin by forming your basket

I mixed a couple of browns together to get my “basket brown” – but any brown will do! You want to form a “snake” that you will wrap around to create your basket, and a small ball that you can press down to make the bottom of the basket. If you’re not quite sure how much snake your basket will require, make more than you think you’ll need!

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The photo below shows the size of ball I started with for my basket base. (Please forgive my photos… as usual, I was invested in the project and not really thinking about how great the photos are. I WILL get better at paying attention to this and picking up a REAL camera for in process photos. lol.)

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Once your flatten your ball, attach the “snake” at one edge and wrap it around and around on top of itself, until your basket is as tall as you want it to be:

Attach a handle across the top of your basket, if you like:

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