Hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world
so recently we had an event where we went in and we made little tiny
terrariums with our clients and it was so much fun that I thought it would be
fun to show you how to make your very own little tiny terrarium for this
project you will need small containers small rocks or gravel charcoal hammer
potting soil little plants like moss and lichen little figurines a water source
such as a spray bottle stick napkins paper towel q-tips scissors and spoon so
these are super fun to make and on my website www.sophie-world.com I'll have a list of all the little plants that you can use but basically think tiny like ground
covering this is what I've got here is little ground covering that we can use
you want to just make sure that they have a significant root source so that
you can gently take them out of the dirt and that their roots are still intact
that's the one thing that's most important so you can actually find you
know in your backyard you can find some mosses and lichens and that sort of
stuff that that could be used first thing first you're gonna take your
little glassware and I was able to get my glassware at the dollar store which
is you know my favorite place and we're gonna take some little tiny stones now
these can be any kind of stones that you can find I'm gonna use white ones so
that you can see and you're just gonna make a little layer of stones on the
bottom this is to make sure that the water doesn't get logged down and bogged
down in your soil because you don't want your little plants to rot
so we're gonna put some stones down there and then the next thing we're
gonna do is put in a layer of charcoal now the reason I said you need a hammer
is because you can take a regular charcoal briquette just make sure it's
all natural and doesn't have any like chemicals in it and you can I didn't do
it here because it makes so much noise but basically you put your charcoal
briquettes into a plastic bag and then use a rubber mallet and just
bang-bang-bang you do it on the ground do it on you know a concrete
surface or a rock surface or someplace like that that's nice and sturdy and
they'll break up pretty easily and pretty quickly and you're just gonna
take a layer of this and put that right over top of your rocks the reason we're
doing this is because the charcoal helps to keep that dirt fresh and absorbs
any extra moisture and keeps it from becoming mungy basically nobody wants
mungy terrarium so at this at this event which was really fun people were really
getting into this and creating these little landscapes and stuff they were
having so much fun except they kept calling them
planetariums which i thought was pretty good okay so the next step is we're
going to add our plants and our soil so I'm going to first start putting a
little layer and this is just potting soil you can also do this with
succulents now if you were to do this with succulents what you would want to
do is use a cactus soil but we're gonna be we're gonna be using a little ground
covering so I'm gonna actually put a little bit of the soil in here and then
I'm going to use my water source here which is little spray bottle and moisten
that just a little bit not too wet just a little bit and then I'm gonna take my
little guys here and as you can see you can see those roots in there we're just
gonna gently break those roots apart here cuz I don't need this whole thing I
mean I could use this whole thing but and I'm just gonna place it in there
with my fingers get it in there and then I'm gonna take a little bit more soil go
around make sure that's nice and solid in there
you can use a little spoon if you want to and then again I'm gonna use my water
source Moss is great for this especially if you're using teeny-tiny itty-bitty
little figurines like this one right here I found these I thought these were
the cutest thing ever I found these at this place called Darice and they were
mythical creatures and I just fell in love with them and they look really like
look how cute that is a little dragon in the midst isn't that cute so now the
reason that I had suggested that you have a little paper towel and a stick is
to get in there and clean off your sides a little bit if they start to get a
little soil ridden and mungy so you can just kind of come around with this
little paper towel on a stick and just kind of tamp that down make sure that
that's not messing up your glassware and you can always use a q-tip as well to
get in there clean that now we get to have some fun so I'm gonna add I'm gonna
make this my own little Yosemite so I'm gonna add a big rock here
that's my Half Dome okay and then I'm gonna add a little little gravel here
it's gonna be my little water bed my little water bed this this gravel this
really fun colored gravel is actually the kind of gravel you would find for
like fish tanks and it's great it comes in all these amazing colors and
including like these hot pinks and oranges and things like that then put a
couple little white ones in here and it's pretty inexpensive too you can get
a big old bag of it but again you know you don't have to spend a lot of
money can just go out in your backyard or in nature and find the
appropriate things right there in nature for you so now I get to add my
little animals and I also found these these are so cute aren't
they there are little tiny mushrooms and they actually have this little bit of
wire on them which makes it very helpful because I'm going to cut off about three
inches there so that I end up with just an inch left here that's why I need
those scissors and then I can just stick this down into the soil and they stay
wherever I want them to which is great once again I'm just gonna cut that right
there put a second one over here maybe I'll do one more just because
they're fun so we've got our kind of own little half dome there okay now I could
put in my little tiny dragon wouldn't he be cute but I think I'm gonna put in a
bunny instead I love these bunnies and again I got these at this place called
Darice which is an online shop and I will make sure that there is a link down
below and that's that's it that's really all there is to making your own tiny
terrarium so just remember the most important thing a layer of rocks if you
can find it a layer of charcoal if you can't find the charcoal it's okay then
put your dirt then your plant then some little embellishments and there you have
your own tiny little terrarium put that in your room wouldn't it be nice to just
see a little bit of life every morning when you wake up wonder what they're
thinking about down in there hmm I think mr. bunny looks like he wants to
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