For places where you feel like there's not much to do there, you can use stuff from inventory. A picnic blanket, a firepit, a telescope, take some pictures with the camera, do some yoga, sunbath on a towel, paint a picture, knit, play an instrument or a game, you can write in sand and make sand castles, etc. Yes, sometimes it feels easier to just find them there, but I feel like it would also be annoying to just find stuff everywhere you turn.
In my game I turned Sylvan Glade into a Japanese inspired picnic spot, with a tiny pavilion and a koi pond. I thought it fitted best the quiet and secluded nature of the lot. If you want the fairies to hang out there, you could add some fairy houses so they could meet their needs and some other interesting activity that doesn't requite much space, maybe an open air classroom of some sort and have a school for fairies only?
This is precicely why I'd like an "edit neighbourhood" button to place things. When you bring things yourself and place from inventory, they are placed somewhere next to your sim.
I placed a tent recently and it was not accessible to the sim who just placed it. She threw her hands up and complained she couldn't reach it. So i had to pick it back up and place it again.
I'd like to be able to create areas like this very specifically. Being able to place them like I place things on lots. It's much easier. Even using TOOL I always rotate and angle my items on my lot then move them with TOOL later into the position I want - because it's so much easier than doing it with a menu.
