- How
to Make a Festive Snowflake Plant Pot
- BY S.Roberts
How to make
an inexpensive and festive plant pot, ideal for adding additional
festive cheer to your Christmas decorations. Christmas plant
pots also make fantastic Christmas presents for any plant lover.
They can be used inside or out. Super for potting springtime
bulbs, or a little Christmas tree or dwarf conifer.
You will
need...
- A terracotta
plant pot in whatever size you wish.
- A base colour
paint. Gloss or silk emulsion is great. Use up leftovers from
the shed, they have just come in handy.
- Metallic spray
paint, scissors, selotape, paper, newspaper and paintbrushes.
Before you
begin you need to cover your work area in newspapers to that
you don't spoil any furniture with paint.
Take your plant
pot and apply two coats of the base coloured paint. This will
take a couple of days to complete because of drying times. Complete
as directed on the back of the paint tin. Only continue when
the paint is completely dry.
To add a snowflake
design you need to make paper snowflakes. Take a square piece
of paper and fold it in half to make two triangles. Then fold
in half again, and fold one more time. Always fold the paper
in the same direction, and keep the centre of the piece of paper
at the tip of the folded triangle. Now using the scissors cut
interesting shapes along the folds, along the top and snip the
point off your folded triangle. Don't cut too much paper away
so that it all drops to bits. Unfold the paper to reveal a beautiful
snowflake. Make several different snowflakes, you can also make
them in varying sizes if you wish.
With small
amounts of selotape or blue-tac, tack the snowflakes to the plant
pots. The snowflakes mask off parts of the pot. Any part of the
pot masked off will remain the base colour.
Once youre
happy with the snowflakes, you're ready for the metallic paint.
It is important that you use spray paint in a well-ventilated
room and that there are now naked flames present. Read the paint
ca for full instructions.
Spray your
plant pot and snowflakes with a thin coat of paint. Keep the
paint tin moving at all times. You need to avoid a build up of
paint because it will run and spoil your design. You can always
spray another coat later.
When the paint
is dry, carefully peal off the snowflakes to reveal a beautiful
frosty snowflake theme plant pot, great to keep for your self
or to give away as a gift.
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- S. Roberts
writes for http://www.santaspostbag.co.uk/ a Christmas website
packed with festive ideas of things to make and do. Get Santa
to send a FREE letter to your child.
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ARTICLE POSTED
DECEMBER 07, 2006
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