Fairy Garden Concrete Mushrooms
4 Materials
$25
2 Days
Easy
Ever wanted a simple way to make mushrooms for your fairy garden project and couldn't get started? Here's a simple way using premixed concrete or cement, a few wire coat hangers, some cheap bowls from the $1 store a couple of cans of spray paint or house paint and some cheap disposable plastic table cloths and tape.
An $8.00 bag or premixed concrete and a pair of pliers.
Some wire coat hangers and other wire to 'reinforce' the concrete mushrooms and provide a stem to place in the mushroom stalk.
All wired up and test fitted. 4 different sized bowls from the $1.00 store.
A plastic table cloth left loose to give the mushrooms a smooth irregular dome shape, don't worry about the wrinkles you won't notice them when they're painted and in the garden. The plastic is gathered together under the bowl and I used packaging tape to wrap around the ends keep the plastic from sinking into the bowl when filled with the cement.
Wire placed in mixed concrete and starting to set
2 days later and removed from the moulds, starting to look like tops of mushrooms
First trial with enamel spray paint and the paint flaked off. so another coat with a waterbased vinyl or acrylic gave the mushrooms a nice glossy sheen.
Placed in the garden atop some cut down tree branches as mushroom stalks, an alternative would be to use tree stumps or anything that looks like a mushroom stalk that you can drill a hole in to accept the wire, pit in a few solar powered fairy lights, fairy gates and in no time a little girls' (or boys) favourite special garden, ready for the fairy's to move right in!
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I Made a 'mushroom' garden (a Hobbit) out of upside down perfume bottles and painted them like this. Gorgeous!
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Hi Fred,
It sounds like you were 'in the zone' too, anything can work, the trick in getting the shape is to have an easy shape to get the concrete out. Well done.
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Wish I had a photo for you. My wife's design. All shapes of large glass perfume bottles and , in the light, even with paint, the light is awesome. Thanks !
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How would you make the stem so the mushroom can stand on the ground?
Could you use plaster of paris instead of sement. Also, could you place @ stem in the cement/ plaster while it's wet to eliminate the need to dril @ hole after it has dried? They are realy nice, I love them. I love anything to do with fairy gardens. Kay Adelaide Australia