While busy in the garden one day we found a tiny letter from some tiny friends. They needed a new place to live. So we decided to design and create a Fairy Garden. Our design considered their wishes very carefully.

We looked at a plan of the school ground to find a quiet place where our friends would not be disturbed.

X marks the spot

We found a quiet place in our garden. We measured out a space using metre sticks. There was an old rotten log that needed moving. It was full of insects. When we cleared it we realised a small tree had started to grow there. We decided it should stay as part of our garden.

The soil in our garden wasn’t very good. It was full of rocks and it wasn’t very easy to dig. We added a lot of compost and dug it through. It was really hard work. We had to remove lots of stones.

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We started to plant seeds for our garden. We experimented by recycling plastic bottles.

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We used stones from a beach to make fairy paths. This helped us mark out our areas .

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We had to keep trimming back grass so that our garden didn’t become overgrown.

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We tried not to buy any materials for our garden. We recycled unwanted things or tried to use things which were lying around.

We removed some moss from a pathway at the back of the school and used it to make fairy grass.

We wanted to make electricity. There isn’t much sunshine in Glasgow so we decided to try wind power. We asked P6 to help us with our wind turbine.

We put it on top of the tree stump so that it would catch the wind.

We tried to follow our original plan as closely as possible.