Soda Bottle Fairy House for watering your garden.

I love to garden and my garden at home has a whimsical feel to it. I felt it NEEDED fairy houses. So we made some. However since I like to make things that have purpose these fairy houses are also for watering your garden. Where we live in Arizona the ground is dry and these bottles are intended for deep watering. This will make it so that the roots of your plants grow deep in the ground where they will not dry out so fast.

Step 1: Find an empty soda bottle (we used 2 liters).

Step 2: Remove label.

Step 3: Spray paint the top half of the bottle (if you would like your fairy house to have windows so that you can see into the house put square pieces of masking tape where you would like the windows before you paint the bottle). Since the bottles are so light either hold the bottle at the bottom with you hand spraying the rest of the bottle away from you, or so that you don't get paint on you find a way to hold the bottle up (I used blocks that happened to be a perfect fit).

Step 4: After letting the spray paint dry, paint on little doors and windows near the top part of the bottle (the rest of the bottle will be under ground, it doesn't need paint).

Step 5: Cut small holes into the sides and bottom of the bottle with an exacto knife, this is where the water will drain out to water your plants.

Step 6: Dig a hole at least 8 inches deep (you want the majority of the bottle to be under ground).

Step 7: Put bottle in the hole and make sure it is deep enough into the ground (here the door is above ground I need to dig more). Once the hole is deep enough put the bottle in and fill the empty spaces with dirt. Pack the dirt fairly well around the bottle so that it doesn't wash the dirt away.

Step 8: Water down the dirt around your fairy house and fill the bottle as much as you'd like with water to help the dirt around it settle.

Step 9: Add stepping stones for the fairies to walk on and sit back and enjoy your garden.