Fairy House & Garden Tours - May 28 & 29, 2022

Get ready for a magical springtime adventure!  We are working with artists, creatives, and local organizations to bring Lexington and visitors a walking tour into enchanted villages around town.  

Creating a fairy house?  Click on the blue button below to add your house's location to the tour map!
Interested in learning more?  Click on one of the links below, or attend one of the pre-events
Join us for more fun listening to music and making fairy houses, or looking for fairies on the scavenger hunt

PRE-EVENTS​

• ​April 2, Saturday:  1-4pm, Work with creatives to build 2 large fairy homes for the Patriots Day Parade
• April 29, Friday:   10-11am, Parent/child workshop to build fairy homes at the Community Center 
• Month of May:  Photo opportunity with vines and twinkles at Cary Library's Idea Wall
• May 1, Sunday:  10-12pm, all-ages event to create a fairy house out of clay for the garden Register Here​
• May 9, 7-8pm :  Fairy house inspiration with Barbara Purchia & Ashley Rooney in the Large Meeting Room of Cary Library (with a YouTube recording afterwards). Zoom presentation Registration required
• May 20, Friday:  Free rock/blues band, and fairy house-making workshop @ Munroe Center for the Arts

​                           Register to be notified in case of rain delay

• May 27 - 28 :  Fairy Scavenger Hunt Results posted 5/29

Get your fairy house on the map!

Read Ashely Rooney's article:  How to Build a Fairy House

WHIMSICAL INSPIRATION:

• Fairy Houses from common things
• Fashion a Fairy House (such cute little doors!)
• ​Simple to complex Fairy House examples
• Portsmouth Fairy House Tour
• Ideas for materials
• Flowers, bark, and stones!
• Examples from the VT Nature Museum's Fairy House Festival
• More examples from the Fairy House Festival
• Upcycled Ewok "Fairy" House
• Fairy Houses in Auckland
• Fairy House How-To from Tower Hill Botanical Gardens
• Toad Home from a plastic bottle and stones
• Adirondack Faerie Lodge
• Fashion a Fairy House
• Fairy houses in the woods
• Pinterest collection (search for more)
• Leave Your Wings At the Door - New York Times
• Making Fairy Houses from Materials in Your Yard
• Artist's Creations in the Vermont Woods

VIDEOS:

• How to build a Fairy House with cardboard base
• ​How to build a Fairy House with twigs and hot glue

Fairy artwork courtesy of Pat Carney, fairy houses created by Jessica Marro