Recycled Flower Pot
By: Amanda Formaro
Difficulty: Easy
Age: 4 and up
Parental supervision is recommended
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This recycled flower pot craft is a fun Earth Day project that keeps plastic milk jugs out of the landfill and provides a pretty and useful pot to plant flowers in. Makes a wonderful Mother's Day gift, too!
Be sure to check visit our Earth Day craft page, recipes, fun printables and keeping a green home for more fun. Additional Mother's Day craft ideas, cards for mom, and recipes to spoil her with on Mother's Day.
What you'll need:
- Plastic milk or juice jugs
- Fabric or scrapbook paper scraps
- Felt in coordinating colors
- Scissors or a craft knife
- Soil
- White craft glue
- Water
- Bowl
- Paintbrush
- Potted flower
How to make it:
- Cut the top off of the plastic jug, just under the handle. Save the handle to make our Bouquet Holder craft. (See photo.)
- Turn bottom of jug upside down and have an adult poke 4 small drain holes in the bottom. (See photo.)
- Cut fabric or tear paper into 1” squares. (See photo.)
- Mix 2 parts glue and 1 part water in a bowl.
- Paint glue mixture onto one side of the outside of the milk jug. (See photo.)
- Decoupage the fabric or paper all over the sides of the jug, applying glue onto the jug first, then over the fabric or paper to adhere. (See photo.)
- Cut 1.5” wide strips from felt, enough to go around the opening of the pot. (See photo.)
- Glue the strip onto the lip of the pot, overlapping both sides, inside and out. (See photo.)
- Add a handful of gravel or small rocks to the bottom of the pot.
- Add a small amount of soil then add the potted flower.
- Fill pot with soil, carefully but firmly patting down the soil around the flower.
- Water your flower and place near a sunny window.
Tips:
- This pot makes a lovely accent to a patio table; however the decoupage will be ruined should it rain. To avoid this, before adding gravel, soil and flower, place the pot inside a clear plastic bag. Insert the overlap of the bag inside the pot, roll up the side if needed, you don’t want the plastic blocking the drain holes.
- Place your pot on a plate before watering to catch any water that may drain out the holes.
- These make great pots for herbs as well!
Related Crafts:
• Tin Can Herb Pot
• Milk Carton Bird Feeder
• Sunshine Flower Pot
Related Links:
• Earth Day 2010
• Earth Day Crafts
• Mother's Day
• Mother's Day Crafts
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