Mommy’s Favorite Flower Pot
Crafting Time: 3 to 5 hours
Skill Level: No experience necessary – kid-friendly
Suggested Supplies and Tools:
- Ceramo red clay flower pot
- Gesso spray paint
- Non-toxic poster paint
- Small paintbrush
- Spray fixative
- Potting soil and plant of your choice
- Wipe the pot clean to remove any dirt or dust.
- Spray the pot evenly with the gesso spray paint – several light coats is better than one heavy one. Don’t paint the inside of the pot if you’ll be adding a plant.
- Allow paint to fully dry – approximately 3 to 4 hours, but overnight is fine.
- Use the poster paint and brush to paint the rim and tray if you’ve got one; allow them to dry to the touch (amount of time depends on the thickness of the paint – several minutes to several hours).
- Decorate the body of the pot with poster paints (see suggestions for decorating below).
- Allow pot to fully dry (overnight is great).
- Spray the outside of the pot with a coat of fixative (use it in a well-ventilated area)
- Fill the pot with a potting soil mix and transplant your favorite herbs or flowers into the pot.
Decorating Tips
- Kids love helping, but if you’re using spray paint it’s best to have them watch. Same goes for hot glue guns.
- Always use paint in a well-ventilated area.
- Let the kids get creative. Sure, you may not have thought to glue macaroni to the pot before painting, but let them go nuts. It’s OK if it’s not perfect or a work of art, it’s about the experience and the love behind the gift, not coloring in the lines!
- Make the rim special – paint a fun pattern or glue on ribbon.
- Make it personal Make sure your paint is non-toxic and the let the kids dip a hand, thumb, or foot into the paint and put prints onto the pot. Or make homemade stamps from kitchen sponges or potatoes and let them stamp a border around the pot.
What aunt, grandma or mom wouldn’t love a sweet flowerpot made with love?! You could plant something colorful and fun or fill it with her favorite candies and a plastic scoop (place the candies if their unwrapped in cellophane first). Tie it with a ribbon an watch mom open it with pride.
What will you create?
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I received this wonderful little pot when my daugther was a toddler! Our daycare provider came up with wonderful mother’s day gifts. My daughter is 27 and lives in NYC these days! I still have this little pot in my bathroom window that I look at every day reminding me of a simpler time! Hopefully, I will have another one some day if we are blessed with grandchildren!
I am going to make one of these for my dad! He would love this for Father’s Day! But, I am going to decoupage a copy of my footprints from my birth certificate. I know it has been a long time since he has seen those! Thanks for the idea!
That is such a good idea and yes, dad’s would love them as well!
This is so cute. I made something like this with my daughter when she was little. I wonder if she’s doing the same thing with her daughters? Wish she would speak to me so I could find out!
Sorry to hear your not on speaking terms with your daughter. I hope you are able to resolve that soon.
This is such a cute idea, as a mother I would love to receive something like this.
So cute! I’m looking forward to when my grandsons are old enough to make a craft like this for me!
This is so brilliant! It looks so cute and easy and I know my mom would love getting something like this from the grandkids. I don’t know if the 5 year old’s footprint would be as cute as this one, though!