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Paint and Plant: Earth Day 2016 with the FaveCrafts Team

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The first Earth Day in 1970 was coordinated to organize a nationwide teach-in to not only celebrate but empathize the need to protect our green spaces. Now, forty years later, people across the USA still celebrate this important day by taking time out of their day to plant trees, teach special lessons on environmental conservation, and more. Never one to skip a great opportunity to get creative, we here at Prime Publishing LLC (the team behind FaveCrafts.com!) decided to do our part by combining planting pretty flowers and crafting!

This year, we painted adorable itty bitty terra cotta pots in beautiful colors before planting charming petunias in our brand new creations. The pretty and purple Wave Pansies and other green cuties we picked up at Home Depot looked lovely sprouting out of our painted masterpieces. One editor, Jesse Carpendar said of the experience:

Decorating flower pots was a relaxing way to welcome spring into our office. It was nice to see everyone’s creative side emerge. It’s been even nicer to have cute pink flowers greeting me at my desk every morning since.

Check out our video below!

Earth Day with Prime Publishing LLC and the FaveCrafts Editors

Our Terra Cotta Pots and Pretty Plants

Purple Wave Pansies

Terra Cotta Pot Craft

Petunia Painted Pot Crafts

As you can see, we have an office of crafty editors with green thumbs. The petunias and pots are still blooming beautifully on plenty of desks. Spring is here and we reveled in the chance to bring some spring indoors.

It was wonderful to bring some of the beauty of the outdoors inside. The purple Wave pansies were gorgeous and immediately brightened up my desk!

– Erin Jones from our Marketing Team

31 Clay Pot CraftsMore Painted Pot Crafts and Flower Planting Tips

Do you have a green thumb, a black thumb, or somewhere in-between?

Dress Up a Clay Pot & Add Some Color to Your Patio

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This tutorial is brought to you by Latrice Murphy for Any Occasion.

There is still time to spruce up your outdoor space with fun handmade pieces like colorful DIY succulent pots. I’m lucky to have a landscape designer husband, but he’s not into decorating that space. I wanted to add pops of white and aqua to our patio, so I decided to make these fun little pots to put around our space.

Materials:

  • 2 clay pots
  • Various succulents
  • Spray paint in the color you would like
  • Ribbon
  • Hot glue gun
  • Various ribbons and gems
  • Box or drop cloth

Instructions:

First, you want to spray paint the pots and let them dry in between a few coats.

Next, choose your ribbons and create bows by bunching layers together in the center and tying it together. I finished my bows off with a giant gemstone.

After your pots have dried, it’s time to decorate them. I started with ribbon and simply hot glued it around the top portion of the pot.

Next, I took my bow and added it to the center. My bow matches my other handmade summer decor, so I love that it flows outside too.

Plant your pot or do as I did just simple keep your plant in the pot it came in and sit it inside. That way you can change the plants later is you would like to.

 

Succulents have swept the nation all of a sudden. They are such fun and unique plants and I feel like they needed a unique pot. I hope you try this soon since summer’s almost to its end. Have fun creating before it’s over!

25 DIY Garden Projects + Vibrant String Art

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Hand Painted Flower PotGoing green by growing your own garden is a great activity to get the kids off of the couch and out into the backyard. When the sun in shining, there’s no use sitting inside all day, so pick up a spade, some seeds, and a flower pot, and head outside to exercise your green thumb! If you’re out of ideas for what to do with all of the free time you have, then these garden crafts for kids are perfect for you.When the flowers start to bloom in spring and summer you’ll want to get in on the action. AllFreeKidsCrafts has gathered 25 DIY Garden Projects that you are sure to love. With each project you can make something to spruce up your garden, whether that is a rainbow flower pot, birdie stakes or a tin can robot.

25 DIY Garden Projects

Flower Pot Crafts

Simple Scrappy PotsOf course you’ll want the roses you just planted to grow in something just as beautiful as they are, so try decorating a boring flower pot as a great craft for kids. One of my favorite crafts is the Simple Scrappy Pots craft because you can use any old denim scraps that you have, making this a budget-friendly craft. DIY garden projects like these are great because you can decorate your backyard or windowsill with colorful pots filled with flowers.

Click here for more Flower Pot Crafts

 

Recycled Crafts for Kids

Reduce Your Footprint PlanterGreen is the name of the game, so why not save money while you’re helping out the environment? By making recycled crafts for kids you can have a blast, and you don’t have to worry about spending a dime. Look around your house for a Kleenex box to make a Reduce Your Footprint Planter, and you can get started on a garden in no time. Garden crafts for kids like these provide hours of entertainment as you tend to each of your own little plants. There’s nothing better than planting something green while being green and using recycled materials.

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Garden Crafts for Kids

Darling Paint Can DaisiesThis summer’s theme: green gardens. Who doesn’t love waking up in the morning and looking outside to see a green garden full of beautiful flowers and delicious veggies? Garden crafts for kids are a great way to learn about responsibility and nature. Don’t sit inside all day and watch cartoons when you could be making some Darling Paint Can Daisies. This adorable craft is a great Mother’s Day gift, and it will help you mark where daisies are in your garden.

Other Garden Crafts for Kids

 

 Bonus! Learn how to make Vibrant String Art. It’s a great decor craft that will change the look of your space.

Vibrant String Art

 

What is your favorite flower or veggie to plant in the garden?

 

 

Crafty Fiesta: Painted Terra Cotta Flower Pot

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It’s a Crafty Fiesta all week long here on the FaveCrafts blog, and we’re joined by I Love to Create to get you geared up for Cinco de Mayo with some fun and festive craft projects! Be sure to keep tuning in every day through May 6th for all our amazing Cinco de Mayo craft ideas, DIY inspiration, and a giveaway each day. Check out today’s colorful terra cotta clay flower pot tutorial, and then be sure to scroll down to enter our giveaway below!

 

Crafty Chica Loteria Flower Pot

Whether you’re throwing a fiesta or just brightening up a room, there’s no better way to decorate than with some beautiful flowers. And this Crafty Chica Loteria Flower Pot from I Love to Create is just as bright and cheerful as the flowers it’s holding! Add a festive floral touch to any room or occasion with this simple terra cotta pot craft idea. All you need is some paint and fun Lotería game cards to turn a plain old terra cotta pot into some eye-catching decor!

Materials:

  • Crafty Chica® Little Chica Paint Packs™
  • Crafty Chica® Loteria Game™
  • Crafty Chica® Chunky Glitters™ (Glamour Queen Green)
  • Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™
  • Crafty Chica® Glossy Gloss Varnish™
  • Paintbrushes
  • Scissors
  • Terra cotta pot and saucer

Instructions:

  1. Paint base of pot black; paint rim red. Paint inside of saucer green and the outside yellow. Let dry. If desired, add vertical purple painted stripes on base of pot.
  2. Cut out four of your favorite pictures from the large deck of the Crafty Chica™ Loteria Game™ and use Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue to affix them around the body of the pot.
  3. Add painted accents between the images and along the rim of the pot and saucer. Let dry.
  4. Seal pot with a weatherproof high gloss varnish.
  5. Use glue to add glittered accents on the images and on the painted accents.


It wouldn’t be a celebration without a chance to win something! We’re giving away a Crafty Chica Empowerment Shrine Kit from iLovetoCreate! Wouldn’t this be perfect for chasing away the blues on dreary days? Well you can win one of your very own! All you have to do is answer the question below in the comments section to be entered for your chance to win! How easy it that? Enter now and get back to celebrating!

Empowerment Shrine Kit from Crafty Chica

Contest Rules:

  • Contest open to US and Canada residents 18+
  • One comment/entry per person.
  • Contest closes May 2, 2012 at 11:59p CST.
  • Please answer the question below in order to be entered.
  • Winners will be posted on this blog and notified by email

 

Do you plan on doing any fun activities on Cinco de Mayo?

3 Days and Counting

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It’s almost here! My fiance and I are moving into our first place together in three days! Can you believe it? With that said there are so many things to do, so many things to pack, so many lists to make….ahhhhh. Breathe! I have most of my things packed, except for all my last minute things, which is kind of a lot. But I can’t wait to decorate the new place. I’ve been wanting to make some of my decorations for the house, not sure what the “hubs” is going to think of that. I found a really cute daisy flower pot though that I would love to create for any room, even if it’s for one of the bathrooms. Daisies are perfect too because that’s what I’m planning on using for our bouquets for the wedding. Daisies just brighten up the room and make me happy. Another really cute piece I found was this chocolate flower wall art. I think we’re going to be painting our bedroom some kind of brown color like a Mocha maybe, so this would look great in there. I guess I’m getting a bit ahead of myself though. We still have to pack, move in, unpack, clean. Oy ve!

For more great home decorating ideas, check out Vintage Home Decor, Cute Kitchen Decor Idea or 4 Fun Decor Ideas for the Kid’s Room.

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Cute Garden Crafts

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I’m moving to a new apartment just in time for summer. And even though I’ll be in the middle of the city, I’m hoping to utilize the space I do have to create a small garden. I’m planning to plant flowers, as well as herbs and vegetables if I have the chance. These thoughts inspired me to look for some cute garden crafts to perk up my space. Here is what I found:

I love this herb garden centerpiece from Martha Stewart. There is nothing like adding fresh herbs to your cooking.

This handmade wheelbarrow planter has a great old school feel. Grab one from inYOURyard’s Etsy shop.

These chalk paint garden pots are adorable as gifts, and can bring some personality to your garden or home.

For more great garden craft ideas, download our free garden crafts eBook.

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