Painting Plant Pots
I am always on the look out for homemade gifts that we can make as a family and this is one of those. Really easy to make, inexpensive, but oh so effective. In fact this is the perfect Spring project and makes a great Mothers Day or Easter Gift.
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Materials:
Terracotta Plants Pots
Emulsion paint (we got some tester pots, as we only have cream in the house)
White acrylic paint
Pencil with eraser in the end.
Varnish
Plants
Method
- Paint each of the plant pots and allow to dry, some may need a second coat, but this is pretty fast work.
- We chose to just pop white acrylic as spots all over the pots, this way the boys could do it themselves and they really enjoyed it. By using the end of a pencil with an eraser on it was pretty simple.
- Again leave to dry, then cover with a layer of varnish.
- We made sure that we painted the top of the inside of the pots too.
- Then we added a primula in to each, et voila. A simple, easy and very effective Mothers day gift. Oh and it cost all of 30p for the pots, 59p each for the plants and a little paint and time.
If painting pots isn’t up your street, but you are still looking for an idea for mothers day then how about having a look round the local Charity shops for bowls or cups and saucers and placing some bulbs in them.
Kid Made Flowers for Mother’s Day
I am a big lover of flowers and kid made ones are even better. We made Pinwheel Daffodils here and I adore these pipe cleaner Daffodils from the Zing Zing Tree. How about making post-it note tulips or tissue paper flowers. You could even make fabric covered plant pots for your flowers. I adore these handprint flowers from Handprint and Footprint Art.
Powerful Mothering shows us how to make flowers from paper cake cases or how about edible daffodils from Kids Chaos, and come back over the weekend for a how to on pipecleaner tulips.
Great Kid Made Gifts
Mum’s deserve all the pampering they can get so spa products are fantastic. Red Ted Art shows us how to make bath bombs or you could make a lovely body scrub or bath soak.
Coasters would be a great idea and you could use kids art to personalise them.
Salt dough plant picks from Vanilla Mom would go down really well with me!
Make sure you are following our facebook page, Google + page or on Pinterest for lots more Mother’s Day cards and activities over the coming week.
Ooh I love those painted flower pots – so colourful! i can’t believe how many ideas you have here, what a great post.
i like flower pots,daffodils, hopefully one day will do something together with my girl
Love love love these……I am going to try these in the summer. Fab idea to brighten the garden up….Imagine a great big one too….xxx
Great idea to keep kids busy and creative 😉 I still have time to think of gifts for my Mum, we celebrate it in May 😉
What a simple, yet effective idea. Those decorated pots can be really expensive and this is such a cost saving way to do it! Love them x
How bright and springy those pots look. I need some color in my kitchen and am going to try doing this to a few post and put herbs in them. Thanks for such a great idea.
love the flower pots! what a great idea!
I really love those plant pots, I could do with some of those for my herbs currently residing in nasty brown plastic pots adorning my kitchen window sill! Great idea 🙂
now these are adorable i love little things like this the children can enjy doing but also look great in the home or garden too x
hand painted flower pots look like a winning idea to me
These look lovely! I might have to get my 9yo to make some over the easter holidays 🙂 x
What lovely ideas. Homemade mother’s day gifts are always so special. I really like the idea of the personalised notebook.
I love those plant pots! They look very Cath Kidston, but much nicer of course 🙂 Pinnng for future reference!!
These look so effective! I love the bright colours
What fab ideas! I love that you used a pencil rubber for the spots, brilliant idea x
Oooh these are fantastic, I love them! So easy and they would be so treasured by O’s grandmothers as presents 🙂
I really want a painted pot, they are so cute. This has given me the idea of doing some pink and white spotty pots for my mum and nana for Mother’s Day.
I love the bright colours you chose for the flower pots. They would look amazing all lined up and planted with daffodils or tulips. It is great to get kids involved in home-made gifts as I think that those are the gifts that are most treasured and appreciated. It also helps them to understand that with a bit of creativity and some thought you can do something yourself rather than rely on the shops for everything x
I love those plant pots what a cute idea that looks so nice 🙂 x
A really effective and simple idea!
We are painting plant pots at the weekend – such a lovely simple little craft :))
I love the painted flower pots, I’ll be doing some of those.
The paint pots look brilliant! Great idea x
Some fab ideas, we’ve been painting flowerpots this week but they are a bit more haphazard than these pretty ones 🙂
Lovely idea – they look really nice x