Egg Shell Mosaic Flower Pot

Those left over Easter Egg shells don't belong in the disposal! Save them to create a beautiful work of art!

Materials needed:

Flower pot

Paint

Easter egg shells

Mod Podge

Paint brush

Paint your flower pot and let it dry completely.

If doing a design, draw it on your vase with chalk first.  Brush with mod podge and apply your egg shells. Press the shells down so they are flat against the surface.

Let it dry for at least 15 minutes so the shells stay in place, then coat with a layer of Mod Podge. You may have to do more than one layer.

Once the shells are dry coat the entire flower pot with Mod Podge and let it dry.

Add a plant and admire your work.

Bird Seed Tree

I saw this  on my Family Fun Craft Finder app and just had to share it. This is a super-easy activity that is perfect for Earth day.

Materials needed:

Large flower pot

floral foam

Sticks

Peanut butter

Bird seed

If your flower pot is a light weight material weigh it down with some rocks. 

Wedge a brick of floral foam into the pot.

Stick your stick(s) into the foam.

Slather the sticks with creamy peanut butter and coat with a good layer of bird seed.

This probably goes without saying, but do this project OUTSIDE...especially if you are doing it with a 3-year-old.

My kids had a blast doing this and they have been looking out the window every 5 minutes to see if the birdies have come for their treat yet.

Have fun and Happy Earth Day!

Inexpensive grapevine wreath

Grapevine wreaths are so beautiful that it doesn't take much to make them ready to be hung.

Materials needed:

Grapevine wreath--I found mine for $3.50 at Walmart

Scrapbook paper

Glue

Chenille stems

Floral wire

Mini birdhouse (optional)

Twine (optional)

To make the paper butterflies:

Cut 2 squares from scrapbook paper (mine are 5"x5"). Round the corners of the squares and fold each into an accordion shape. Fold a chenille stem in half. With the folds horizontal, stack the pieces of paper and wrap the chenille stem around the butterfly. The stem will make the body. Twist the two top pieces of the stem to look like the antenna. Fan out the paper so it looks like a butterfly. 

To give it more fullness I glued the top and bottom
together so it stayed fanned out

Using floral wire, secure the butterflies to the wreath.

I found my mini birdhouse in the 10 cent bin at Michael's. I used a piece of twine to hang it from the wreath.

Wreaths like this tend to be very expensive at home decor stores, but the total cost for me was $3.60. Not too shabby for 20 minutes of work.

My final wreath in wreath mania will be an easy $2 photo wreath. Keep reading!