Dollar Store Craft: Flower Planters
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not all that crafty, not only that but I usually find crafts to be time consuming and expensive. That’s why I love this dollar store craft idea! My three year old and I created these flower planters using supplies we brought home from the dollar store!
I was walking down the aisle of my local Dollarama looking for supplies for the DIY Hanging Basket I was making for The Canadian Mother Resource, when I spotted these cute mini planers. I figured these would be perfect for the little packages of planting herbs that I usually pick up from the grocery store so I grabbed three, some paint brushes and paint and went to checkout.
Since my son loves to paint (and he was already doing a few fun crafts) I thought it would be fun if we tackled this dollar store craft together. As you can tell in the photo, my herb idea transformed into a few pansies – the kid really liked the flowers and was adamant that we buy them.
I gave him some acrylic paint on a paper paint, handed him a paint brush and he went to town.
I even decided to paint one, don’t you think I should give up blogging and go into painting full time? That’s my best work people!
I set the dollar store craft planters outside and once they dried I sealed them with Country Chic Paint’s Tough Coat (but a poly acrylic would work just as well).
Next add your soil, the flower or herb and that’s it! It’s the perfect lazy-person craft. I love how this dollar store craft took no time, hardly any effort and it cost me under $15 (the planters were $1.50 each, the paint was $1 – the most expensive part were the flowers and soil).
Dollar Store Craft: Flower Planter Supplies:
- 3 planters for the dollar store
- Paint brushesÂ
- Paper plates (to put the paint on)
- Craft paper (or something to protect the surface you’re painting on)
- Acrylic paint
- Poly acrylic
- Soil
- Flowers and/or herbs of choice
That’s it!
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I love getting the kids involved in crafting! And you can always find so much crafty stuff at the dollar tree. These planters are too cute! Great for the patio!
I love shopping at the Dollar store because I always find great items for a Dollar. I really like your Dollar Store cute craft planters. What a great way to plant flowers and put them out for all to see.
I am all about the lazy people crafts! Woot! Love the bumble bee one. I get the pansies too because they are super cheery plants. He has great taste.
We love the dollar store, I have so much in my craft section in my office we need to get to. I actually have similar planters to those they are just plain metal silver from Dollarama and I will be letting the kids see this post and let them go wild! Such a cute idea for the kids!
We’re going with all bright, light green accessories in our backyard this year and I can really see us adding in some of the yellows that you used – I’m gonna start getting more crafty back there!
Your bee turned out super cute! And the Dollar Store is my favourite place to buy crafts too! Thanks for the idea, I think my kids would love this too!
A perfect way to decorate a deck! This would be a great craft idea for a rainy day at the cottage too!
This is a cute craft, it’s a great one to do with the little ones. Thank you fir sharing this post.