Sydney Duffer walked around a garden several times Sunday at Deemer Floral Co., looking for fairies in every nook and cranny if they were not out in the open.

“Let’s count them – one, two, three, four, five … ,” the 4-year-old Bowling Green Girl said before beckoning to her mother, Sarah Duffer, to come closer. “Oh my gosh, Mommy, look at this house over here! Close your eyes. Now see it?”

The little things really did count during the Bowling Green Garden Club’s annual Fairy Garden Tour, which featured miniature gardens with plain-sight and hidden fairies.

The duo were experiencing the tour for the first time.

“We thought is would be a great mother-daughter gardening idea because I love to garden, Duffer said.

Fairy Robinson of Auburn and her granddaughters, Ella Ramsey, 2, and Shawn Ramsey, 7, were with several members of their family, including Kristy Gray of Greenville, to see the miniature fairy garden there.

“It was different and magical, like when you were little,” Gray said. “It takes you back to Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny.”

Like the Fairy Godmother in Disney’s “Cinderella,” Ellie Wilde waved her magic wand and said “Bippity Boppity Boo!” at the tour’s final destination, Lost River Cave and Valley. The 6-year-old Bowling Green girl explained how she had transformed her target.

“You’re a princess,” Ellie Wilde said, smiling.

She was one of dozens of young male and female “fairy-folk” using their magic powers at the park. This year’s event was “very diverse,” Mary Nahm, tour chairwoman, said.

“This year with it being out here, we’ve seen more little boys come through and enjoy the nature outside. We have people in the planting area helping the children plant seeds that they can take home,” she said as children ran to get refreshments and collect fairy-themed gifts, such as wings, head wreaths, wands and fairy dust, before heading back outside. “We’re trying to teach kids to get in contact with nature.”

Wilde joined her friends, Reese Wilson, 5, and Ellie Wilson, 9, in the park’s Nature Explore Outdoor Classroom, where they played in a section that features musical instruments. The girls’ mothers, Jean Wilde and Heather Wilson, both of Bowling Green, brought them to have a fun girls day out. From the children’s reaction, the goal was achieved.

“I liked looking for the fairies and and the really small things,” Ellie Wilson said. “I think they’re cute.”

The fairy accessories appealed to Ellie Wilde.

“My favorite part was getting the wings,” she said.

Reese needed only one word to describe her favorite part.

“Everything,” she said.